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Recently, I did some technological laboratory experiments with kitchen gelatin.
With practical understanding of gel based electrolytes chemistry, I made some serious advancement in design of my own funny cheap junk materials batteries (using zinc sulfide gel), and also did progress with metal electro-etching (using copper/zinc/iron sulfide mix gel) on brass and steel materials.
Using gel based electrolytes for etching is more practical to handle than immersion bath, for it is applicable locally on large pieces of metal and also it provides finer detail than bath. Previously, in liquids I had under-etching defects and unevenneses caused by current density variations depending on geometry of ornaments.
But that's not the knowledge I want to share.
What I do want to share is... Mint and Honey Candies! recipe.
So, do thusly:
Put about 400ml of fresh water into small casserole, add two bags of mint tea (counts as 3g of dried mint).
Boil good for a while, just like making a mint tea, the liquid should be quite dark.
Off the heat, remove mint bags, add several tablespoons of honey. Two spoons is mildly sweet only, four is adequate, six may be too much. YMMV. This time, I used some old honey, crystallized.
Keep stirring until honey solves clear. Then, put on heat again, but very controlled. Do not allow to blazing boil again. Keep stirring for a while.At this point, a foam may appear on the surface. This depends on quality of the honey: some top quality kinds, especially heavy dark forrest summer honey contains more insect proteins which cause this foaming by protein precipitation. This is well known situation to mead makers. When making the mead, this boiled out foam usually shoud be collected discarded because those proteins may cause funny taste after fermentation. That's what I usually do when making mead.
Though don't be confused if you experience no foam, that probably means your honey is light, mostly of vernal blossoms, or... fake. A cactus juice. Or fructose syrup. Blame your supermarket. No problems candying with that, still sugary.
I got a very little of foam and I ignored it, this time.Keep stirring. Now is the time to add gelatin. Use two bags of 20g gelatin dust, and I mean real beaf gelatin, not so called vegetarian-compatible starch imitation, 40g in total for above numbers.
Adding gelatin is the most serious part of the process. It means very slowly sprinkle the dust into hot liquid, while keeping stirring. Haste makes fluffs.When the liquid gets clear with all the gelatin dissolved, keep hot for a while, while still stirring.
Once you get bored of stirring, it is time to fill the mix into silicon candy mould or ice cubes mould.
I strongly recommend using silicon mould, not plastic, because final candies are quite soft and it is not easy to get them out of hard mould later without aestethic damage.
Let them cool down a bit to room temperature, then put into refridgerator to finalize.
Do not store for more than one or two days, for this recipe does not use any preservatives. Keep in refrigerator if you must store.Enjoy!
See, it's easy enough process even for children to make their own candies.
//* Journaling this under "code" topic, since I consider kitchen recipes as programs.
(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Wednesday June 28, @04:08PM (2 children)
Finally, a ROG Ally I preordered (and payed for in advance, which is a rather risky business here if delivery stalls) at June 1st just arrived. Only two weeks lag from official world release day. Manufactured in May.
Obviously, a platform I'll be busy with all this summer. And so far the best PDA I ever gifted to myself. I will need three or four of them for sure.
The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday June 28, @10:17PM (1 child)
Cool. I might look into a Steam Deck 2/3, whichever offers better hardware than Van Gogh. But otherwise my attention is on the rumored Strix Halo inside of a mini PC.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Massive-AMD-Ryzen-8000-Zen-5-leak-Strix-Halo-chiplet-APUs-targeting-Apple-silicon-efficiency-with-RTX-4070-class-graphics-along-with-new-Strix-Point-and-Fire-Range-APUs.709446.0.html [notebookcheck.net]
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Thursday June 29, @02:28AM
Don't haste. There is a serious thermal design error with Ally, and that is the SD card slot is placed too close to heat source. Reportedly poor cards often do not work reliably and there are even several reports of SD card fatality.
Asus seemingly solved this situation partially, by -20% power in latest BIOS update. I am not upset, my first purpose is robotic control console and development, but some gamers may be :D
If they were smart enough, they'd better control the power more dynamically, returning to their original speed when SD card not present...
Both Steam Deck and Suichu (Nintendo Switch) models have much better SD card placement concerning its thermal conditions. I have an old Suichu but am totally unsatisfied with its controllers ergonomy, getting hand-ache after couple of hours. It's because the controllers are designed for children, too small for adult hand. Also, a bit difficult to hack, not a fun platform to me.
So, the first hardware upgrade of Ally I will begin with will be: 1. dedicated external disk, most probably Linux because of drivers, either Debian or Gentoo and 2. some decent USB-C hub with ethernet port or even self powered dock station, for real networking and keyboard/trackball/mouse.
The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28, @05:50PM (4 children)
I'm thinking that even with beef gelatin in there, it should keep for quite some time in a cool place since it's full of honey. Saturating meat with sugar is one of the ways the old timers kept it from spoiling.
I don't plan to make this recipe--there's too much sugar around anyway and honey is still sugar; but it's interesting and got me wondering about gelatin alternatives [mashed.com]. I eat meat, but somehow the idea of gelatin grosses me out when I think about it. I don't think I've had jell-o since I was a kid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28, @05:54PM (1 child)
Did a bit more googling and looks like botulism [reddit.com] is on the table if you're not careful, so yeah... probably fine to eat fresh or fridge for a few days; but not good to be sitting around. This is why I freeze but I don't can. Too many things can go off when canning.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29, @02:32AM
I don't do much candy anymore. I did put up 3-1/2 gallons of pickles yesterday and today. All set for tuna salad for the year.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Mojibake Tengu on Thursday June 29, @02:36AM
Gelatin is very important to keep joints, veins and vessels flexible.
My mother is 83 now, those candies are mostly for her, she keeps buying medical gelatin which is about 700-900 times more costly for the same substance and volume.
The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29, @09:53AM
I asked a person I know who is a food scientist, and they vehemently disagreed. The sugar amount is too small compared to the amount of protein and too much liquid water is present. There is too much water activity to allow for any sort of unrefrigerated preservation.
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