I make stuff like pizza often enough where I want the cheese to be able to melt better. The starch/cellulose probably also effects how it melts into a sauce.
I actually dont ever buy pre-shredded cheese, mainly because it’s usually not good cheese to begin with.
Doesn’t matter, they both have the butyric acid smell since it’s an essential component of the style.
Parmigiano Reggiano has basically never spoiled for me. Since it’s aged, there’s not a lot of water for spoilage. The only cheese that I ever have spoil are really fresh cheeses.
if you want to sell pre shredded cheese, you have to use something
I wonder about this. If you just grate a bunch of cheese and stick it in bag, obviously, it will stick together a bit, but I wouldnt mind it if all I had to do is rub it between my hands to make it fall apart.
I dont need each shred to be completely loose. I would be willing to pay that little extra for grated cheese that isnt treated with the anti-caking agents. I want my pizza cheese to be a choking hazard.
Butyric acid (the baby vomit smell) is a quintessential component of parmeggiano reggiano.
I have slept in one of those children’s tents before. I was going backpacking, and a friend offered me his “backpacking tent” that was much lighter than mine.
It turns out it was lighter because it was a children’s tent that was about 80% the length of my body, so I had to sleep with my knees up. We got snowed on, and luckily it held up.
Openstreetmap has cycling infrastructure. I bet there is info on quality of bike lanes. I think what most people end up doing is checking maps that show popularity like strava because if lots of people are cycling on a route, it’s probably not too sketchy. That does skew too much towards fitness cycling, though.
In the US, there is a forest that is still actively managed for harvesting oak to repair the USS Constitution. That’s a ship launched in 1797 that is still in service (it’s the oldest floating warship in the world).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Surface_Warfare_Center_Crane_Division
You can see the separate poles
Plastic. Also, just less easy to drink out of the wide mouth (which obviously has its benefits, and they make the insert to make it easier to drink from, anyway).
Right amount of light, combined with watering by dunking the pot in water long enough to actually saturate the soil (like an hour for me). Especially when you see a bud start to emerge, you need to dunk it. Otherwise the leaf will start to emerge, but stop growing, and you end up with tiny leaves.
Terra cotta spikes also help.
Having battery storage is the most expensive part of any off-grid system. Without it, you obviously dont need batteries, but you can also get rid of all the battery management stuff, charge controlling, inverters, etc.
Direct attic fan sounds great because you need it the most when it’s the most sunny.
It would be cool to do a direct solar powered hydroponics or pond project, where you just pump all the water to a reservoir when you have sun, and let it drain back 24 hours a day.
Wow, my experience was the opposite. Years ago, I wanted a slightly larger bag, so I stopped using my jansport that had lasted forever and got an expensive swissgear, and all the zippers broke in a couple years, so I went back to the jansport.
They don’t look too far off from some species of araucaria
Cinnabar chanterelles, despite being plentiful by me, dont really taste like much.
Presumably, it gets mowed? If not, I’d say to find a local wildflower mix and sow it in late fall/winter. Lots of plants tolerate this well cause it’s how they naturally reproduce. You dont have to worry about water as much that way because they sprout and start putting down roots way before the weather gets hot and dry.
Another thing to consider is salt. If that area gets exposed to a lot of road salt, it might cut down your options a bit.
The running industry really really wants it to be a social activity, because then it’s an avenue to sell more stuff.
They are investing heavily in run clubs and influencers to try to make it a more social activity. If you run with people, you’ll probably do it more often, which is good, but you’ll also spend more on races, burn through more shoes, and probably spend more money on peripheral gear.
I assume just tax money like the books in the library. They dont solicit for donations (for money or tools), and the tools are all pretty much the type you would expect for rentals (more durable than you or I would buy for something we might only need once). For example, they have all Park Tool brand bike tools. There might be liability reasons not to take tool donations.
They also have art, seeds, kids toys, puzzles, and musical instruments.
They take donations of seeds (which I contribute to) and puzzles.
It’s a library system with maybe like 8 locations, and they spread the non-book collections across the different branches, so one has the tools, another has art, etc.
I actually just found some neat stats on my local system, and the expenditure for the system’s whole collection (including books, digital media, and everything) is only 1/10th of the total expenditure. The way they lresent the numbers means i have to calculate things a little weirdly. On average, they spend $0.75 per use of an item. This is going to fluctuate year to year since I only see yearly expenditure and usage, and obviously, items last more than a year.
I dont have usage rates of the tools specifically, but something like a bike tools kit that costs $280 would need to be used 210 times to be hit the same cost per use of an item. I think that’s definitely doable because the rental periods are only 1 week, and you often need to place a hold to be able to get something.
Total expenditure of my library on collections is $8 per capita per year. I would gladly 10x that with my tax money. Obviously storage/administration isnt free, but still, it’s absolutely affordable, and I think it would be even for a small system.
Yeah, I’m not even thinking about renting, though that does have its place. I basically just really like that my local library lends out all the tools that I only need once in a blue moon.
There’s times that I want to buy stuff and just give it to my library so I dont have to store it for the 99% of the time that I’m not using it. Don’t think it actually works that way, though.
My mocktail approach is essentially all daiquiri format: 2 parts something with body or heat to 1 part acid to ~1\2 part sweetener.
The majority is often tea, or something with tannins. Ginger is really good since it has a “burn” like alcohol. Milk punches also work well for body.
I like acidifying various juices with citric and malic acid. Personally, I like to target lime acidity over lemon because I think malic acid has the sensation of more body.
Recently, I did 2 parts gunpowder tea to 1 part acid adjusted orange juice to .75 parts agave syrup.
I’ve never used any purpose made liquor alternatives.