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Thanks, that is almost exactly what I was planning to do anyway and it's nice to have confirmation and a few more details. :)

Thanks. I just mixed up a starter a few minutes ago; only 50ml of water and 50g of rye flour, but I'm not going to discard anything for the first feeding or two. It is thicker than I expected so I might add another 10ml of water. It's in a half pint jelly jar right now but when it's a...

I bought a couple of pounds of stone-ground organic rye flour tonight. (I figure it's dirtier that way) I'm going to make some sourdough starter. I had a really good sourdough starter about 10 or 15 years ago but I accidently let it die over the summer when I wasn't baking. I used to fry...

She wasn't all that old either. 😢 I need to go watch Star Trek "Assignment: Earth" again. And Young Frankenstein.

I poured it thru a strainer (to get out all the little crabapples) into a 3 gallon carboy, and added a cup of sugar, 2 heaping teaspoons of yeast nutrient, and about 7 more quarts of apple juice. Shook it up really well to aerate it and make sure the sugar was dissolved. Just a few hours later...

A few days ago I stepped it up to 3 quarts and added a little more yeast nutrient. It is quite active now. It's starting to smell a bit funky. Not necessarily *bad*, but more interesting than good. It smelled a lot cleaner a few days ago when there was just a pint. There are no visible signs...

I put a big handful of lima bean-sized crabapples in sanitized quart jar and added a pinch of Fermax yeast nutrient and about a pint of apple juice. Put a lid on tight and have been shaking it up and loosening the lid slightly several times a day. Four days later, I'm finally seeing some...

Is it as simple as putting a handful of little ornamental crabapples (they have lots of "bloom") or rowanberries in a quart mason jar, covering with apple juice, and adding an airlock or putting the lid on just tight enough to keep fruitflies out but allowing gasses to escape? Should I add a...

CdB is my favorite yeast for fermenting store-bought apple juice to make cider. I keep trying different yeasts and none measure up although some are close. (somewhat ironically, I came here to start a new thread about collecting wild yeast to ferment pasteurized juice) I add just a little...

It was fine, but I don't really remember details other than how foamy it was.

The toppings are just a flourish; the pizza should stand alone without them. For the most part I agree with your list, except you left out Italian sausage (which I don't really like but it's real) and salami. Fresh tomatoes in season and fresh basil are good too. Strawberries definitely do...

Yes, about the same as a cast iron skillet. I use Crisco (solid vegetable shortening) on my skillets because it burns on nicely w/o getting sticky.

I'll be going to the scrap metal dealer this week to sell some aluminum cans and get rid of stuff. Any reason not to use a piece of scrap rolled steel from an unknown source? They may have some pieces laying around. (of course I'll burn it good first, clean it again, and then wax it with...

Kirkland American vodka. (I like it better than their supposedly better French vodka) Neat. I've been watching the presidential debates. I've made a significant dent in the handle of vodka that I bought this afternoon.

I made a couple of pizzas last week; the first one used up the last of the huge bag of bread flour I bought in 2020 😂 The second was made with unbleached all-purpose flour. Both were 70% hydration and ripened for a couple of hours at room temperature. The AP-flour dough was very difficult to...

Three and a half gallons of apple juice in a 4 gallon carboy, a half a pound of white sugar, a teaspoon of yeast nutrient, and a packet of white wine yeast (usually Cote des Blanc.) Once the fermentation slows down so I know it's not going to foam over, I add another half gallon of juice...

I make a decent cider from Aldi's or Great Value filtered apple juice. I don't know how it compares to English cider. You have to use a good yeast; I'm sure there's more than one, but Red Star Cote des Blanc is very good, and don't add much sugar. CdB leaves just a trace of sweetness behind...

Sierra Nevada Festbier. It's in the style of Hofbräuhaus's excellent Oktoberfestbier, which I can't find anymore. I like Hofbräu's better, but this is very good. It's nothing like an American Oktoberfest, much lighter in color and not as sweet. I need to buy a case of Paulaner next time I go...

Real gusto in a great light beer.

I think I got at least half of them out; starting with the worst ones. There's about 10 times as many as I thought. I stopped because I was testing her patience. I'll dig some more out later. For the next 20 minutes we're playing with a ball and eating treats (cooked green beans; she loves...