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[Ravynscroft]

So... You can still buy and use it..... Interesting.


Can't find mercury thermometers anywhere any more

Yes, you can... seen some 'vintage thermometers' on ebay...

 

[Ravynscroft]

I am not growing turkeys here I have frigging ostrichs!

I swear dumpling has tripled in size just this week wonder if it is all the fresh water and grazing he has been doing as I garden

It's all 50's fault, lol... the goodies and tidbits he feeds while they laze around on padded cushions...

 

[Alaskan]

So... You can still buy and use it..... Interesting.


Can't find mercury thermometers anywhere any more

Yes, you can... seen some 'vintage thermometers' on ebay...

Dang.... Of course now I have to admit to being "vintage" myself!!

 

[Amberjem]

 

[bamadude]

Mexico Beach trip tomorrow at 8:00 AM

 

[perchie.girl]

@Amberjem Thank you for posting the video! A word of warning for you folks. At the end he mentioned "looking glass" (also known as Isenglass). When I was on the farm years ago way before the internet) I stored my eggs for winter in looking glass. You used to be able to buy the powder from just about any pharmacy. You put the powder into water and then added the eggs *quick* because the stuff would begin to set into a thick gel from the bottom of the bucket to the top so the eggs went in in layers. Eggs kept in the buckets for months. Only problem sometime in the 90's ? they discovered the stuff was a carcinagen. Oops. Granny never taught me about slate lime. I just might try it this year while I am getting lots of eggs (Bama-those of us in the north don't get eggs for very many months each year) because who knows what the price of eggs is going to be in the fall/winter and I certainly don't want to be paying what good eggs will probably cost at my natural foods store come winter. They have already gotten outrageous because of the demand caused by the AI scare! I don't have a ton of room in my fridge for eggs so this should work for me.

I just looked up Isinglass it was made from fish... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isinglass before Gelatin.

http://thebeerspy.com/2014/04/11/8-...inking-immediately-dont-believe-all-the-hype/

The people that object to isinglass being used in their beer are vegan vegetarians and People who require Kosher food.... because Isinglass was made from Sturgeon swim bladders. Sturgeon are not Kosher because they have no scales...

I wonder if using just a very thick gelatin for storing your eggs would work.

deb

 

[Beer can]

So... You can still buy and use it..... Interesting.


Can't find mercury thermometers anywhere any more

Yes, you can... seen some 'vintage thermometers' on ebay...

Check laboratory supply websites maybe. I know we have big mercury ones at work in the Lab. They are state certified by the USDA and FDA, they use them for temp checks on every silo probe, tank probe, and HTST pasteurization units. That's why I disagree with calibrating thermometers for hatching in a ice water bath. At work they do that for the cold silos and tanks and use a hot water bath with the state certified mercury thermometer for the pasteurization. I always wonder when using a ice water bath for calibrating if it could be a couple degrees off at incubation temps.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Dang.... Of course now I have to admit to being "vintage" myself!!

I'm getting there...

Mexico Beach trip tomorrow at 8:00 AM

Sweet! Have fun!

 

[Beer can]

I couldn't find anything saying isinglass being bad. I think people just quit using isinglass for eggs when they got refrigerators.

 

[Beer can]

Mexico Beach trip tomorrow at 8:00 AM

Wow! Scared me I was thinking in Mexico! Lol!