Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[The Yakima Kid]

I've always said if I were to design a house, I'd put drains in the kitchen and bathroom floors plus a faucet for a hose. Imagine how handy they would be when washing floors! What a snap!!

I actually tried to do that in the laundry room of our Nevada house, and was informed that it was apparently not allowed by cod in residential properties because the water in the trap could evaporate and reek havoc on the interior air quality. (Pun intended.) Our contractor generally came to the conclusion that we were nuttier than a filbert tree. We also built the house with a 15' or so high peaked roof with a sky window just below the peak and big fat colonial helicopters in the bedrooms and living room (ceiling fan.)

Open the doors and windows, set the colonial helicopter in the living room to draw air upward, and open the skylight. Does a great job of creating airflow in hot weather.

 

[oldrooster]

Quote: Kinda like a commercial kitchen then if ut gets real messy you have sealed concrete and or tile and you break out the hose and hose then squeegy it dry....

 

[oldrooster]

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Saw on TV a whle back in some island nation (I forget where) that was a tropical island they built tall grass(or bamboo whatever the local crop was) and built thatched homes so the air passed thru the walls and did just that allowed the air up and out extracting the heat......

 

[tridentk9]

I like that idea. I'd like four of them, please. Then I could remove about ten linear feet of floor to ceiling cabinetry. B^0

Cabinets just get filled with stuff. If you have empty cabinets you buy more stuff to fill them. Empty space is a vacuum, a money vacuum!

 

[tridentk9]

I've always said if I were to design a house, I'd put drains in the kitchen and bathroom floors plus a faucet for a hose. Imagine how handy they would be when washing floors! What a snap!!

Hey- that's my idea!!!!

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Cabinets just get filled with stuff. If you have empty cabinets you buy more stuff to fill them. Empty space is a vacuum, a money vacuum!

Actually, I cook a very wide range of foods because my husband is allergic to corn (maize.) No high fructose corn syrup, maltodextrin, dextrin, modified food starch, etc. I also have Meniere's disease so I tend to fall down and go boom a lot. If he eats maize, it is a trip to the emergency room and it is not good. He can swell and wheeze. This is very not good.

I have a breadmaker. I have a tortilla press. I have a regular rice cooker, a steamer, and a Persian rice cooker (to put the nice crust on it.)
I have a deep fryer, an ice cream maker, a Bethany grill (for Lefse, injera, enormous omelets, etc.) I also have a food dryer, a pressure canner, a Mongolian hotpot, a tempura pot, an apple peeler and corer, an indoor grill, a mixer, a food processor, and a blender. My husband has a coffeemaker that also makes espresso and a milkshake mixer.

Sometimes I can find Featherlite baking poweder; other times I have to make my own. Most baking powders have cornstarch. I have bins stacked up to hold Bastmati and white rice, all purpose and baking flour. I keep brown rice and whole wheat flour in the freezer right alongside a pound of SAF blue yeast and an additional pound of SAF gold yeast, the kind used for high sugar doughs.

If he wants doughnuts, I make them from scratch because the ones in the bakery can make him seriously ill. Ditto for cakes,cookies most yeast breads, most prepared foods, most restaurant meals, etc. If he wants Indian food, I make it. If he wants Persian, Turkish, Afghan, Mediterranean, Chinese, French, Japanese, Mexican, German, Philippine, or whatever food - I make it. From scratch, with maybe a few frozen or canned incgredients if I can find any that are safe for him to eat. I have bookcase that is 6 feet high and rather wide just to hold cookbooks - all carefully arranged by either methodology or cuisine. I have tagines, bread cloches for use in the oven, and special pans to provide him with his much desired hamburger and hot dog buns. I also have noodle making attachments for my mixer to make ravioli and other stuffed pastas from scratch since there are few commercial stuffed pastas that he can eat safely.

My empty space didn't fill itself - I wound up having to create more empty space so I could fulfill my husband's culinary desires.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Fortunately, my first degree was in Foods and Nutrition, so I can cook for fifty or more as easily as for four. I also learned a lot of techniques that speed up the process, and are useful when making food from different cuisines, along with the chemical, biological, and physical properties of foods so I can make substitutions and formulas.

One thing I decided was just too much was growing quail bush for use as baking powder. I was out in the front yard preparing to make baking powder when I decided the classic cream of tartar formula was just going to have to do because this was way too much effort on a hot day.

 

[mrballance]

RE: "My family is wondering how we could POSSIBLY eat our hens when they are done laying eggs" and other such questions:


A lot of the ignorance we encounter is willful ... it's called "denial", one of Freud's 12 self defense mechanisms. People go into denial because they find the truth uncomfortable, whether it be where food comes from, what that manipulative new Mr. Wonderful in their life is really up to, their children's behavior ("My child would never do that", when the kid is caught red handed), and so on. People have difficulty facing the truth because they were never forced to as a child ("I don't want little Johnny to see that perverted horse exposing himself in the pasture") and can't accept that it doesn't fit into their "Disneyworld" image of life. The media and entire social structure is complicit in promoting this image. That's how corporations have managed to brainwash the public when it comes to convincing them that factory produced food is cleaner and healthier than food grown in dirt, compost and manure. So, now the American public is fatter and unhealthier than ever because they believe food made in factories lined with "sterile" stainless steel and governed by federal regulations is best for them. Just mention dirt, germs, e-coli, salmonella, etc., and you have people flooding to the center aisles of the grocery stores in terror, scarfing up "sanitary" processed junk.

Did you realize there's a whole area of psychology dedicated to consulting with advertising to find the best ways to sell a particular product? But, in order to buy into their message, first you have to be uncomfortable with the "ugly" truth. I think I'm very lucky because I see the truth of the entire food cycle as a beautiful miracle. How perfect is a system that starts with a chicken, from which we get eggs and manure for growing crops and help in the garden, which are then used as food when they stop producing eggs? Plus, they reproduce themselves so they can be replaced when their job is done. I guess that's why I enjoy hanging out with the folks at BYC so much. We aren't wedded to the artificial, plastic, Disneyland, dishonest version of life that so many are these days. How refreshing!

Thank you!!

No Thank You

 

[7 Biddies]

I actually tried to do that in the laundry room of our Nevada house, and was informed that it was apparently not allowed by cod in residential properties because the water in the trap could evaporate and reek havoc on the interior air quality. (Pun intended.) Our contractor generally came to the conclusion that we were nuttier than a filbert tree. We also built the house with a 15' or so high peaked roof with a sky window just below the peak and big fat colonial helicopters in the bedrooms and living room (ceiling fan.)

Open the doors and windows, set the colonial helicopter in the living room to draw air upward, and open the skylight. Does a great job of creating airflow in hot weather.

I figure it'd be like a large shower floor. If you can build a drain in a shower, why not?

I love fresh air circulating (who needs canned air [a/c] if you have nice weather?), so have installed screened doors where ever possible. I also have so many ceiling fans that a house appraiser once asked if we had an interest in Hunter Co. My neighbors NEVER open their windows, no matter what the weather. Maybe in a polluted city, but this is the Blue Ridge Mountains where the air is fresh and clean! I also see people driving around in glorious 75 degree weather with the car windows up and the a/c blasting, while I drive around with my head out the window like a dog.

I don't get it. But, since I march to my own drummer, I usually don't.

 

[7 Biddies]

Kinda like a commercial kitchen then if ut gets real messy you have sealed concrete and or tile and you break out the hose and hose then squeegy it dry....

There ya go!!