https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/london-gatwick-drug-bust-cake-scli-intl/index.html
Bags of white powder seized as part of a "huge drugs bust" at London's Gatwick Airport actually contained vegan cake ingredients, the British Transport Police said.
A member of staff at Purezza, a vegan restaurant with stores in London and Brighton, was transporting a suitcase filled with bags of cake mix when it was seized by police Wednesday afternoon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @05:19AM (13 children)
A big haul of brown rice flour.
(Score: 4, Funny) by ikanreed on Monday September 02 2019, @05:43AM (12 children)
To be fair, gluten free cakes should be a crime.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @06:47AM (6 children)
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday September 02 2019, @11:31AM (5 children)
Mold too; the medium is even better for mold - takes 4-7 days for the mushroom spawn to colonize it, only 2-3 days for mold.
Those HEPA filters for a clean room are fucking expensive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @01:00PM
Use smaller containers [ziploc.com] instead of one big one to spread out the contamination risk. Pressure cook the containers with substrate in them to sterilize. You can inoculate in open air if you're careful, or under a still air box for better results.
(Score: 3, Informative) by NickM on Monday September 02 2019, @04:59PM (3 children)
I a master of typographic, grammatical and miscellaneous errors !
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday September 02 2019, @09:49PM (2 children)
That trap door spells goodbye to the clean room.
Even without strong warranties, it may still work reasonable well though in driving down the mold contamination, so thanks for that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by NickM on Monday September 02 2019, @10:42PM (1 child)
I a master of typographic, grammatical and miscellaneous errors !
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Monday September 02 2019, @11:56PM
Yeap, the laminar flow hood is the pro solution. The enclosure is not that much of a cost to build (one can even inject some ozone into the flow - just take a corona unit from an old laser printer), but:
I.e. a case where you either "go pro" or, as an amateur, you are prepared to experience screw-ups often enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday September 02 2019, @08:03PM (4 children)
Sounds like you haven't had a good one. There are some places out there that can make really good GF cakes that you can't tell are GF by eating them.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Monday September 02 2019, @09:15PM (3 children)
Come on, man, don't take ragging on a shitty diet fad so seriously.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday September 04 2019, @01:53AM (2 children)
The thing is, it's a worthy diet for certain people who have a genuine medical need to avoid gluten. But then a bunch of morons jumped on it, thinking somehow it's more healthy (it's actually not) and it became a fad.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday September 04 2019, @06:31PM (1 child)
Those people, who are quite real, are few and far between, and by-and-large not responsible for the horrendous array of protein-free plant products that taste like paper.
I don't wish celiac people ill, figuratively or literally, but I detest fad diets with a burning passion.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Sunday September 08 2019, @07:32PM
I fully agree about fad diets (my last relationship partly ended because I refused to adopt my gf's fad diet), but the thing about gluten is that there very well may be more people who need to avoid it to stay healthy than just celiacs and Crohn's patients. Look up "FODMAP sensitivity"; there seem to be a lot of people who have a genuine problem with this stuff. So yeah, I do agree that people who really don't have a problem should jump on the GF bandwagon; it's not "healthier". However, there do seem to be some people who really do better by cutting this stuff out of their diet, and it's not fully understood yet why this is, though I wouldn't be surprised at all if it turned out to be something to do with their gut bacteria.