# Azeotrope is a freaking genius **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 23, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569 "2017-02-23T17:26:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569/1 "2017-02-23T17:26:04Z")
In [this Pit thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=819785), **Azeotrope** suggested turning troll threads into recipe threads. That particular thread has turned into an appetizer thread. Brilliant. Takes the sails right out of their wind, it does. I propose a new term: **Azeotrope’s Law** , which can be invoked every time one of our resident trolls decides it’s again time to stir up the shit pot in The Pit. A thread may become Azeotropic, or one may Azeotropize said thread. Doesn’t apply to other fora, of course, as that would draw the Ire of the Mods. It sure beats exchanging insults. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569/2 "2017-02-23T18:21:12Z")
[Ahem.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19996127&postcount=37) Not that it was original with me, I first saw it on alt.folklore.urban two decades ago. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569/3 "2017-02-23T18:24:36Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > [Ahem.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19996127&postcount=37) Not that it was original with me, I first saw it on alt.folklore.urban two decades ago. Hey, I’m fine with **Door’s Law**. We could then turn a thread into a Dooric Column. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569/4 "2017-02-23T18:47:36Z")
When the recipe response level to a troll’s post approaches 100%, that is proof that the poster is a troll. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569/5 "2017-02-23T19:10:14Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > [Ahem.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19996127&postcount=37) Not that it was original with me, I first saw it on alt.folklore.urban two decades ago. Thanks for letting me steal your idea, **Bill Door.** 😃 I couldn’t remember who mentioned it, and I didn’t feel like searching through all the recent pit threads because they all sort of blur together now. I remembered the same tactic being used semi-successfully in a thread about a former poster who really liked country music and blessing people so I figured it was worth a shot. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569/6 "2017-02-23T20:18:29Z")
> [@Azeotrope](#): > > Thanks for letting me steal your idea, **Bill Door.** 😃 I couldn’t remember who mentioned it, and I didn’t feel like searching through all the recent pit threads because they all sort of blur together now. > > I remembered the same tactic being used semi-successfully in a thread about a former poster who **really liked country music** and blessing people so I figured it was worth a shot. Sorta. She really, really, _really_ liked a fourth-rate country singer. God bless us, every one. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569/7 "2017-02-23T20:21:50Z")
A-ha. I wondered what was happening in a different thread, but sorta caught the gist. Thank you for posting. I shall now participate. Genius! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569/8 "2017-02-23T20:58:51Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Sorta. She really, really, _really_ liked a fourth-rate country singer. > > God bless us, every one. 😃 Don’t forget James Otto. We simply cannot forget James Otto. It would be a tragedy to forget James Otto. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569/9 "2017-02-23T21:04:09Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > Don’t forget James Otto. We simply cannot forget James Otto. It would be a tragedy to forget James Otto. > > 😃 I’m sure we’re among the few who _do_ remember him. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569/10 "2017-02-23T21:18:10Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Hey, I’m fine with **Door’s Law**. Door slaw? Anyone have a recipe for that? ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569/11 "2017-02-23T21:55:29Z")
Since **azeotrope** is defined as “a constant boiling mixture” and stringing along a troll with recipes keeps a thread boiling along, should we refer to one of these as **Door’s Azeotrope**? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569/12 "2017-02-23T22:31:52Z")
Something similar happens here that I always enjoy: a newly registered poster’s Post #1 is a rambling mess that I can’t make heads or tails of. A Doper or two comes in and manages to massage a grain or two of sense out of it, and others join in the found topic with intelligence and humor. The O.P. is, of course, never again heard from. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569/13 "2017-02-23T22:33:58Z")
Rolls better off the tongue the other way around… Azeotrope Door. Please, have some [stew](https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1698/irish-stew). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569/14 "2017-02-24T00:00:40Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > Rolls better off the tongue the other way around… Azeotrope Door. Please, have some [stew](https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1698/irish-stew). 😃 I like it. “Please pass through the Azeotrope Door, if you would.” ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569/15 "2017-02-24T00:15:34Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Door slaw? Anyone have a recipe for that? Door slaw: 1. Find a big, heavy door 2. Put a head of cabbage, some carrots an onion or two and whatever other crisp vegetables you have around in Hefty bag or canvas sack. 3. Put the bag in the door frame and open and close the door as hard as you can until you have beat the ever living shit out of everything in it. 4. Dump the contents in a bucket (cleaner is better in this case). 5. Flick some mayonnaise into the bucket using a garden trowel or whatever else you have handy and dump in some type of vinegar (2 or 3 shot glasses worth is about right). 6. Add a good amount of salt (not the fancy kind; snow melt salt works just fine as long as you pound it real good with a hammer first) and a shit-ton of pepper. 7. Stir it real good with a stick and set it outside for a while if there is snow on the ground or in your garage chest freezer if it seems hot outside and the flies are too bad. 8. Let it get as frigid as your mother on her 2 year anniversary. Enjoy!!! ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569/16 "2017-02-24T01:59:01Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Door slaw: > > 1. Find a big, heavy door > 2. Put a head of cabbage, some carrots an onion or two and whatever other crisp vegetables you have around in Hefty bag or canvas sack. > 3. Put the bag in the door frame and open and close the door as hard as you can until you have beat the ever living shit out of everything in it. > 4. Dump the contents in a bucket (cleaner is better in this case). > 5. Flick some mayonnaise into the bucket using a garden trowel or whatever else you have handy and dump in some type of vinegar (2 or 3 shot glasses worth is about right). > 6. Add a good amount of salt (not the fancy kind; snow melt salt works just fine as long as you pound it real good with a hammer first) and a shit-ton of pepper. > 7. Stir it real good with a stick and set it outside for a while if there is snow on the ground or in your garage chest freezer if it seems hot outside and the flies are too bad. > 8. Let it get as frigid as your mother on her 2 year anniversary. > > Enjoy!!! … Uncle Steve? What are you doing here? (OK, he’s not that bad, but one time he took a head of cabbage over to the deli and asked them to cut it on the meat slicer for him, because he wanted to make halushki and was too lazy to shred the cabbage himself.) ---
**Author:** ![mind\_the\_gap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@mind\_the\_gap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mind_the_gap)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569/17 "2017-02-24T02:11:32Z")
> [@Azeotrope](#): > > … Uncle Steve? What are you doing here? > > (OK, he’s not that bad, but one time he took a head of cabbage over to the deli and asked them to cut it on the meat slicer for him, because he wanted to make halushki and was too lazy to shred the cabbage himself.) I shit you not, Whole Foods offers this service now. I think they call it a “produce butcher”. Uncle Steve would be pleased, yes? ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569/18 "2017-02-24T02:24:22Z")
He’s about as cheap as they come, so he’d never set foot in Whole Paycheck unless he was hoping to grab a bunch of free samples. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569/19 "2017-02-24T02:28:57Z")
Has anyone but me noticed that the OP of this thread in praise of recipe-ing the trolls to death is named **Chefguy**? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569/20 "2017-02-24T16:14:49Z")
Yep, and he also contributes the most recipes. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/azeotrope-is-a-freaking-genius/780569.md?page=2)