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I found a pound of CaCl (food grade). $5 plus shipping for 2 ounces of liquid solution from New England is beyond absurd... it's about what I paid for a pound! The liquid is 30-32% by weight. Water at 8.4 pound per gallon, this should be good for close to a quart of water. .... 2 pounds...

I'm doing another of my "radical" experiments. This brew is only 2 gallons, using my home malted barley only, which is a bit toasty, and some cane sugar. I plan to do my next kilning more scientifically. I'm using a full 2 ounces of Columbus in a two gallon brew. One half ounce...

Looks like a quick fix with a grinder is all you need.................. Even a large file would take that amount off pretty fast. H.W.

My temps were proper.......... I used kefir to start my cheese, which according to Asher, has geotrichium candidum. I washed the rind for the first week according to his directions, and after that simply flipped the cheeses one to two times per day. Rather than developing the desired white...

My attempt at Brie using Kefir, completely failed. It never developed the white mold, and instead developed a sort of slimy surface, and eventually some blue roqueferti spots. I was turning the cheese twice daily, resting it on sushi mats that had been sterilized in starsan. I have...

I like your cheese press.............. I'm wanting to make some sort of Swiss............ I wonder if one can inoculate with commercial Swiss rather than buying a culture.............. On my Tilset (pit washed) cheese, I intentionally made the cheese flatten to the size I wanted, filling my...

I have a solution to deer bothering my garden in the summer...... I use a motion detector light, and use the power to the light to run a solenoid valve from an old washing machine. This valve feed rainbird sprinklers in my garden set on short posts. Anything walks toward the garden, and the...

I'd always believed that you get lyme disease from wood ticks, not "deer dicks", even very bad ones......... I'm pretty liberal minded, but I really don't want to know what you are doing ;-) H.W.

No salt at all.................

WHODATHUNKIT? I put meat scraps and fat trimmings from the local cafe out for the magpies every day. Some of this, is screwed down to a heavy plank sitting on a steel "table" outside me window. I cut up small pieces every morning and spread it and dry dog food out, and they flock in...

I became finally convinced in 2016 that human intelligence was in a steep decline.............. H.W.

My father was subject to this when walking in the city. He carried a walking stick, which really was for defense, as he was extremely fit. The walking stick was a telescoping tripod leg that reduced small enough to fit in his jacket pocket, with the tip filled with lead. Walking in...

A few weeks ago I made tatziki sauce, and because cucumbers do not keep, I used a whole cucumber, and as a result I made far more tatziki than I wanted to keep in the fridge, so I froze 2/3 of it. This turned out to be an Oops..... The sauce ended up thin an curdled. ( I use sour...

In recent reading, I learned that the Spanish have a history of storing cheese in oil that dates back many hundreds of years, often at ambient (high) temps for long periods of time. Also that overly dry cheese can be rejuvenated by cutting it up and storing it in oil, often with herbs such as...

Ditto that....... I've been ordering from YVH for a long time and their service is great, as are their prices. I stopped by a couple summers ago while traveling.... Nice folks. I walked away with about a pound of free freshly dried experimental hops of various kinds. A couple of young guys...

To add insult to injury.......... I went down to the post office this morning as there should have been a priority mail package Saturday (based on tracking). They refused to give me the package because their scanner was broken down!!! The worst was a few years ago when a friend asked me to go...

When I was 12 years old, my buddy and I made wine from Bing Cherries...... secretly. We obtained wine yeast and cambden tablets, and used sparkloid to clarify it. We even had a hydrometer, and we did it all "sub rosa". As I recall, it was drinkable, and "whoop ass" strong, but nothing...

Sounds like a plan to me............ Scorching only really happens when there's concentrated heat. I ran across a recipe that called for simmering on low heat for 6 or 7 hours, and stirring just occasionally, while I was researching this. There are Utube videos and recipes, etc, that are...

I've toyed with the idea of making mysost from whey, but the long boil and constant stirring to prevent it from scorching, is more than I want to tackle. The thought that immediately popped into my head was spray drying and then rehydrating in a highly concentrated form, then cooking...

Political discussion has no place in this forum, however this is NOT political discussion in the real sense. We are not discussing issues, or politicians, etc, merely discovering where we as individuals stand. With that in mind I encourage everybody to go to Politicalcompass.org and take the...