I like this time at night on HBT

[Dan]

Sauerkraut keeps very well in the fridge too. Might consider that 10 lbs might actually disappear when you know how good it tastes before you go through all that canning.

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[Dan]

I don't want 5 jars of kraut in my fridge. And maybe it's my "survive the apocalypse" mentality, but I love the idea of canning stuff.

PP, do you still have any leftover canned turkey?

I want to say something witty and traditional about canning and history because I think they have similarities.

My best corny shot, and for a cheesy affect or is if effect, (I rarely use those words correctly) I'm even going to make it look like a quote.

Canning foods, and history books have a common bond - They preserve the past.

Feel free to add on.

 

[passedpawn]

PP, do you still you have any leftover canned turkey?

Tons. At least 7 or 8 pint jars.

 

[Dan]

How's it taste?

 

[passedpawn]

How's it taste?

Just the same way it tasted when it went into the jar. Exactly.

 

[Dan]

Just the same way it tasted when it went into the jar. Exactly.

And that is a good thing. Right?. I remember reading your thread, was it here or somewhere else? Doesn't matter..

Somebody chimed in you could get botulism food poisoning from canning turkey.. Obviously that didn't happen cause you are still here. (got to admit, that particular post had me a little worried for you)

Glad all worked out well. Cheers to you for being a brave explorer on the food frontier.

 

[passedpawn]

And that is a good thing. Right?. I remember reading your thread, was it here or somewhere else? Doesn't matter..

Somebody chimed in you could get botulism food poisoning from canning turkey.. Obviously that didn't happen cause you are still here. (got to admit, that particular post had me a little worried for you)

Glad all worked out well. Cheers to you for being a brave explorer on the food frontier.

Naw, if the pressure cooker got to pressure and the canner's water boiled at that pressure then all the Clostridium Botulinum is dead. There was never any danger.

I'm going to make mustard when my seeds arrive and can the same way. When the kraut and mustard are done, I'm making sausage (brats) and homemade pretzels, and with my homebrew I'm going to have a homebrew home made Superbowl party.

 

[Stauffbier]

affect or is if effect, (I rarely use those words correctly)

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I can never figure out the proper word to use with these two..

I'm going to make mustard when my seeds arrive and can the same way. .

Is there any specific type or grade of mustard seed that one should use for making mustard? Do you have a link to the seeds you ordered by chance?

 

[passedpawn]

My best corny shot, and for a cheesy affect or is if effect, (I rarely use those words correctly) I'm even going to make it look like a quote.

You wanted effect. Effect is a noun. It's a thing.

Affect is a verb. It's an action word.

E.g., this post had an effect on you. It affected you.

If you are not clear on nouns and verbs, it won't make sense.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I can never figure out the proper word to use with these two..

Is there any specific type or grade of mustard seed that one should use for making mustard? Do you have a link to the seeds you ordered by chance?

Haha, did I give you the impression I know what I am doing? I don't.

I'm buying yellow mustard seed and brown mustard seed and making this recipe.

 

[Stauffbier]

Haha, did I give you the impression I know what I am doing? I don't.

Cool, then I can totally blame you if it comes out like crap! haha.. I'm sure it will be great. Thanks man!

 

[Dan]

You wanted effect. Effect is a noun. It's a thing.

Affect is a verb. It's an action word.

E.g., this post had an effect on you. It affected you.

If you are not clear on nouns and verbs, it won't make sense.

I guess I do know that. It's just that word to me is similar to peeing on que. (think random drug testing) I'm affected by having somebody watch over my shoulder as I'm trying to fill a sample bottle, the end effect is no flow.. Could somebody run some water?

How'd I do?

Edit. I think I screwed it up again.

 

[passedpawn]

I guess I do know that. It's just that word to me is similar to peeing on que. (think random drug testing) I'm affected by having somebody watch over my shoulder as I'm trying to fill a sample bottle, the end effect is no flow.. Could somebody run some water?

How'd I do?

Edit. I think I screwed it up again.

Effect was correct! Now go pee!

 

[Dan]

Pasting this from the "My Favorite Country Song" thread.

Good music for your late night listening. A short history lesson first.

Love that song McB - Great choice!

I was going to comment that I liked the original version by "CCR" better, but thought maybe I ought to check out if they actually were the original song writers and players..

Nope!

going to quote Wiki a bit.

"Midnight Special" is a traditional folk song thought to have originated among prisoners in the American South.[1] The title comes from the refrain which refers to the passenger train Midnight Special and its "ever-loving light" (sometimes "ever-living light").

Lyrics appearing in the song were first recorded in print by Howard Odum in 1905

The song was first commercially recorded on the OKeh label in 1926 as "Pistol Pete's Midnight Special" by Dave "Pistol Pete" Cutrell

In 1934 Huddie William "Lead Belly" Ledbetter recorded a version of the song at Angola Prison for John and Alan Lomax, who mistakenly attributed it to him as the author.

The song, as popularized by Ledbetter, has many parallel lines to other prison songs. ... Many of the lines appear in prison work songs

Folk/bluegrass musicians Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper had a top 5 country hit with the song in 1959 as "Big Midnight Special".

Lead Belly, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Odetta, The Kingston Trio, Pete Seeger, The Beatles, Burl Ives, Big Joe Turner, Bobby Darin, Cisco Houston, Mungo Jerry, Van Morrison, Little Richard, Buckwheat Zydeco, Otis Rush, The Spencer Davis Group, Lonnie Donegan, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, & Creedence Clearwater Revival among others, have recorded the song.

Gotta admit, I had no idea this song has been around so long and sung by so many folks.

The version you posted above is awesome. Beforer you posted that, I had never heard the song from anybody other than CCR. Kind of sad to find out they didn't come up with the song, but eff me.. These guys sing it pretty darn well!

 

[passedpawn]

Pasting this from the "My Favorite Country Song" thread.

Good music for your late night listening. A short history lesson first.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T00eJSQimIk

Cool, I had no idea.

Here's one I found a while back. The lion sleeps tonight was originally recorded by a group of very poor black dudes (Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds!) in Africa, 1930's. The entire story is here. BTW, that's Solomon at the front of the line, the tall guy.

 

[Dan]

Well done, Pappy! Seems the more I learn about music, songs, the more I realize a song I heard for the first time might not be a song sung for the first time.

 

[Melana]

Naw, if the pressure cooker got to pressure and the canner's water boiled at that pressure then all the Clostridium Botulinum is dead. There was never any danger.

I'm going to make mustard when my seeds arrive and can the same way. When the kraut and mustard are done, I'm making sausage (brats) and homemade pretzels, and with my homebrew I'm going to have a homebrew home made Superbowl party.

Homemade pretzels are awesome. Take pics!

 

[passedpawn]

Homemade pretzels are awesome. Take pics!

Here's a few I made in the past. These guys look kinda fat. I think I was experimenting with the dough. I use lye and have stained all the cookie sheets in the house with pretzel shapes. I don't recall why the pretzels in this picture are on a pizza cutter, but my wife's wrath might have something to do with it.

 

[Dan]

Those look really tasty PP!

I've made a few batches but used baking soda instead of lye. I was very meticulous with all my measurements, even weighed out the dry ingredients. I think the recipe called for a ten second soak in baking soda/water solution. Well, me being me, I figured if ten was good a 40-50 second soak would be better. Popped them in the oven and they came out real pretty. I didn't have pretzel salt so I used a little sea salt.

Their texture and looks was spot on but the 50 second soak was a terrible idea. They were way to salty even with all the salt brushed off. The next batches I only soaked the recommended time and they were delicious.

 

[passedpawn]

Those look really tasty PP!

I've made a few batches but used baking soda instead of lye. I was very meticulous with all my measurements, even weighed out the dry ingredients. I think the recipe called for a ten second soak in baking soda/water solution. Well, me being me, I figured if ten was good a 40-50 second soak would be better. Popped them in the oven and they came out real pretty. I didn't have pretzel salt so I used a little sea salt.

Their texture and looks was spot on but the 50 second soak was a terrible idea. They were way to salty even with all the salt brushed off. The next batches I only soaked the recommended time and they were delicious.

The baking soda shouldn't make them salty. It chemically burns the skin of the pretzel to give you a nice crunchy shiny surface. Lye does the same thing, but much more quickly (and it was shinier and crunchier in my experience). If your pretzels were too salty, you either put too much salt in the dough or on the surface.

The pretzels in the picture above look like they might have been baking soda pretzels.

 

[Varmintman]

Time for a completely sober post.

Computers are making us dumb. I have a HP calculator that has thousands of equations built in to it. I suppose I could plot a trajectory to the moon and back just with my HP.

So why is a calculator that has all of the abilities that mine does make me dumber? Because we do not have to think anymore just input the variables and hit enter. Instead of taking a equation and paper and pen to task for a great afternoon of thinking we have turned to having everything solved for us.

I love math I really do. It saddens me to think that much of the critical thinking that used to be involved with solving issues has disappeared. I think back about the skunkworks during the time that the blackbird was built. They built that bad boy with a slide rule and had to not only know the equation but understand how it worked. Those boys understood math

Please do not get me wrong as I know that many fine folks still love equations and try to understand WHY they work. But those of us who do think that way are sadly becoming fewer and fewer as more people depend on the machine to spew out the answer.

Getting off my pile of equations now and resuming a normal posting mode

 

[passedpawn]

Time for a completely sober post.

Computers are making us dumb. I have a HP calculator that has thousands of equations built in to it. I suppose I could plot a trajectory to the moon and back just with my HP.

So why is a calculator that has all of the abilities that mine does make me dumber? Because we do not have to think anymore just input the variables and hit enter. Instead of taking a equation and paper and pen to task for a great afternoon of thinking we have turned to having everything solved for us.

I love math I really do. It saddens me to think that much of the critical thinking that used to be involved with solving issues has disappeared. I think back about the skunkworks during the time that the blackbird was built. They built that bad boy with a slide rule and had to not only know the equation but understand how it worked. Those boys understood math

Please do not get me wrong as I know that many fine folks still love equations and try to understand WHY they work. But those of us who do think that way are sadly becoming fewer and fewer as more people depend on the machine to spew out the answer.

Getting off my pile of equations now and resuming a normal posting mode

Nice rant!

I whipped out an inverse tangent yesterday to find the slope of something. I use math of some sort almost every day. My son nearly croaked when I used calculus a couple of weeks ago to solve a problem for him (had to find the peak of a exponential equation, so I took the derivative of the equation and set it to zero to find the slope=0 point). Unlike a lot of things I've "learned", math did stick with me.

BTW, I love my HP calculators too. I can't live without RPN and a stack. Man, I love this thread, it meanders all over the place.

 

[Subsailor]

Time for a completely sober post.

Computers are making us dumb. I have a HP calculator that has thousands of equations built in to it. I suppose I could plot a trajectory to the moon and back just with my HP.

So why is a calculator that has all of the abilities that mine does make me dumber? Because we do not have to think anymore just input the variables and hit enter. Instead of taking a equation and paper and pen to task for a great afternoon of thinking we have turned to having everything solved for us.

I love math I really do. It saddens me to think that much of the critical thinking that used to be involved with solving issues has disappeared. I think back about the skunkworks during the time that the blackbird was built. They built that bad boy with a slide rule and had to not only know the equation but understand how it worked. Those boys understood math

Please do not get me wrong as I know that many fine folks still love equations and try to understand WHY they work. But those of us who do think that way are sadly becoming fewer and fewer as more people depend on the machine to spew out the answer.

Getting off my pile of equations now and resuming a normal posting mode

Not just math, how about English. My kids groaned everytime they had problems spelling and I would say why do you think we have the dictionary? Look it up, learn the word and it's uses! Now, my 2 youngest (24 and 26) say, "See Dad, with Spellcheck we don't have to know, it does the spelling for us!" AAARRRRGH! Drives me nuts.
Maybe, I was an anomaly growing up but I loved to learn the meaning and uses of the words. I loved to see how a mathematical formula would come together.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Not just math, how about English. My kids groaned everytime they had problems spelling and I would say why do you think we have the dictionary? Look it up, learn the word and it's uses! Now, my 2 youngest (24 and 26) say, "See Dad, with Spellcheck we don't have to know, it does the spelling for us!" AAARRRRGH! Drives me nuts.
Maybe, I was an anomaly growing up but I loved to learn the meaning and uses of the words. I loved to see how a mathematical formula would come together.

I must agree with you there. I will admit I am lazy and usually deduced the meaning of a word from what was said around it when reading. I do like the automatic lookup ability of my Kindle. "What the heck does that mea.... oh, that explains it"

 

[lschiavo]

This is a chest someone made that has been hanging around for much longer than me. I never gave it much thought. I was cleaning up in the room where it sits today and looked a bit closer. The top is a solid pine board 22x43. The sides are of 1x pine at least 18" wide. I haven't tried to find a pine 1x22 lately but I would bet they are at least expensive if not completely unavailable.

 

[Stauffbier]

This is a chest someone made that has been hanging around for much longer than me. I never gave it much thought. I was cleaning up in the room where it sits today and looked a bit closer. The top is a solid pine board 22x43. The sides are of 1x pine at least 18" wide. I haven't tried to find a pine 1x22 lately but I would bet they are at least expensive if not completely unavailable.

That's awesome!

A few years ago I ordered some white oak for some stair treads I was making, and they sent me 16 foot long pieces that were between 14-18 inches wide. It blew my mind! I had never seen pieces that big in all the years I've been working with wood. I still have a piece large enough to make a coffee table top. I really should get around to doing that...

 

[lschiavo]

BTW, I loves me some math but I have forgotten most of it since the last class around 20 years ago. I think I promised myself I would keep up on it too. I do have a chart of trig equations hanging at my desk. I use that. That's the key, use it or lose it...Quick PP what's the derivative of e^x2?

 

[passedpawn]

BTW, I loves me some math but I have forgotten most of it since the last class around 20 years ago. I think I promised myself I would keep up on it too. I do have a chart of trig equations hanging at my desk. I use that. That's the key, use it or lose it...Quick PP what's the derivative of e^x2?

No idea. I can do simple polynomials easily enough. I'm sure I could look on the inside of my calc book cover. Not sure what you wrote there, actually.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

BTW, I loves me some math but I have forgotten most of it since the last class around 20 years ago. I think I promised myself I would keep up on it too. I do have a chart of trig equations hanging at my desk. I use that. That's the key, use it or lose it...Quick PP what's the derivative of e^x2?

f (x) = e^(x²)

f ' (x) = 2x * e^(x²)

f " (x) = 2 * e^(x²) + 2x * 2x * e^(x²)

<=>

f " (x) = 2 * e^(x²) * (2x² + 1)

 

[LabRatBrewer]

f (x) = e^(x²)

f ' (x) = 2x * e^(x²)

f " (x) = 2 * e^(x²) + 2x * 2x * e^(x²)

<=>

f " (x) = 2 * e^(x²) * (2x² + 1)

I crack myself up. I have no idea what that means (although its maths by google so its likely the correct answer).

 

[brewingmeister]

I crack myself up. I have no idea what that means (although its maths by google so its likely the correct answer).

Haha...who needs math or spelling when we have Google and spellcheck.