Hurricane Advice

[adrikeen]

Chocolate needs to be included as a part of the food pyramid and a daily nutritional requirement.

 

[Kiki]

For those of you that are fairly new here, if you don't already know.
It's time to get your nominations in.
I, unfortunately, can not nominate everyone on this thread.

#1 Limit 4 people.

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[Ursuline Chick]

Ok... Well here goes. First its important to know that I'm a bit nerdy and love food science and science in general.

I'm also big into efficiency and process improvement.... And I use a LOT of stock.

So here was my problem: I have two large stock pots (12 & 16 qt) which will yield about 14 quarts or one canner load of stock and the process takes 12-16 hours. I wanted more stock without drastically increasing time. (btw, start to finish is about 2 hours for a canner load)

So here we are... My friends and I are sitting on the patio at a hotel in Atlantic City, its a beautiful night, so the patio if full of guests. Of course we're all sipping our favorite beverage and chatting. At my table, I have a biologist, a physicist and a handful of engineers. So I present my challenge to the group. The biologist starts out with how quickly we need to get the water to a boil and what temps we need to simmer the stock, so we don't get any bad bugs. The engineers break out their computers and start looking for pots and calculating what the target quantity should be. Once we determined that we wanted to target 3-4 canner loads (two canners so 28 quarts per load). The physicist, breaks out his calculator to figure out time over temp to get the mass water and solids from 40 degrees (fridge temp) to boiling, so we could calculate what burner we needed. After a few minutes, we negotiate back to 3 loads so a 160qt pot and 150,000 btu rocket burner. Propane powered to go along with my other toys on the deck.I jump on amazan and order the stuff and as I'm placing the order realize that everyone on the patio had stopped chatting and are all staring at us. They thought (as you probably do) that we were a bunch of total loons.

So here's the stock pot I use... Last time I made stock, I got 92 quarts.

I know I am late to the party, but what's so funny, we use those to boil seafood in! Glad to know it can be used to can as well Great story, really enjoyed it and , hey, I learned something new to use seafood pot for. LOL

 

[BantyChooks]

What?

It's not that good is it?

Minus 3427 points.

 

[adrikeen]

 

[adrikeen]

For those of you that are fairly new here, if you don't already know.
It's time to get your nominations in.
I, unfortunately, can not nominate everyone on this thread.

#1 Limit 4 people.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-q5FaBpziSqC4ehWF0vmOJ0anOAf7vBNrjc525LJQ6OdVUg/viewform

Once you get the accolades...do you get to keep them permanently or do they expire after a time (meaning we need to keep voting for a person)

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Once you get the accolades...do you get to keep them permanently or do they expire after a time (meaning we need to keep voting for a person)

i've had mine for quite some time now, but if you disappear or start not acting properly to fill the shoes they can be removed

 

[adrikeen]

i've had mine for quite some time now, but if you disappear or start not acting properly to fill the shoes they can be removed

 

[Ursuline Chick]

This was the stove....

You are killing me, if I ever come to visit, it will have to be crawfish season and I will bring a sack or two of live crawfish and all the fixings, you provide the beer. Now I need to keep reading, as I am way behind!

 

[room onthebroom]

DH is a chocolate-chip-a-holic. We buy them in bulk from Costco. Even still, I have to keep a secret bag hidden in a gamma bucket under all the dried beans so the kids will have some if they ever need to bake anything. Theres been a few times where he's been out & I felt so bad that I gave him the secret stash.... Made sure he was in the other room tho so he wouldn't know where we keep 'em.

I'm a huge fan of chocolate, but if I HAD to pick between chocolate & salsa. I'd pick the salsa. This is what happens when you spend your whole life living so close to the Mexican boarder.