Fermentation isn’t a new idea here at Glibertarians; we’ve had excellent articles about mead and beer making. In addition to making alcohol, fermentation can be used to preserve food by making things like sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha, picallili, kosher pickles, hot sauce and other condiments. Today, I’ll focus on hot sauce and talk about sauerkraut and other fermented vegetables another time.
Science!
First, a little background. Fermentation as a method of preservation has a long history. Archaeologists have found evidence of fermented foods in the fertile crescent from at least three thousand years ago and kimchi has been made in Korea for about six thousand years. Fermentation uses microbes (yeasts or lactic-acid bacteria) to eat the carbohydrates and sugars in foods and preserve it. Lactic-acid bacteria give off lactic acid, which halts the growth of ‘bad’ bacteria and thus preserves the food and creates a sour, funky flavor usually associated with sauerkraut and kosher pickles.
Is it Safe?
Yep. From Clemson’s extension office:
“According to Dr. Fred Breidt, Jr., a USDA microbiologist who specializes in the safety of fermented and acidic foods, the scientific literature has never recorded a case of food poisoning from raw vegetables that have been fermented properly. But he emphasizes that the key word is “properly,” which some people who quote him fail to include in that sentence.”
If you’ve done it ‘improperly’, you’ll know. If it looks funny (has a colorful mold – blue, green, orange) or it smells wrong, throw it away. If it has white stuff on top, that’s either yeast or a white mold. It’s fine, just skim it off. It should smell funky. It should not smell rotten or putrid – if it does, throw it away. If it’s slimy, throw it away.
In general, just remember the mnemonic “below the brine, it’ll be fine”. Lactic-acid bacteria are anaerobic, and the environment below the brine is anaerobic. If something pokes up above the surface, it is exposed to oxygen and will go bad. Pull that out and throw it away, then make sure the rest stays below the surface. I explain how to do that below.
Equipment
Like any hobby, you could spend hundreds of dollars on equipment – fermentation crocks, mortars and pestles, weights, or airlock systems. But if you just want to try it out all you need is a wide mouth jar and a Ziploc bag. If you enjoy the process and result, you can get fancier equipment later.
You want everything to be clean. You don’t need to sanitize or sterilize the jar, but you do need to wash it in hot, soapy water, just as you would for any other cooking project.
Ingredients
Vegetables + salt + (optional water) + time = tasty veggies.
The critical ingredient is salt. Salt is necessary to make the correct environment so that the lactic-acid bacteria thrive, and other bacteria can’t get going. If you have the environment right, lactic-acid bacteria are ferocious little buggers and will drive out all the other bacteria. The amount of salt needs to range from 2% to 13% by weight. Here’s a useful chart for determining the salinity of the water given the amount of salt . A rule of thumb for a small experiment is to use one to three tablespoons per quart of non-chlorinated water. I used my tap water, which doesn’t have much chlorine, but I would not have used the tap water when I lived in Columbus, OH. The first week of every month was like showering in pool water. If your tap water is chlorinated, just use bottled water. And make sure you use pickling salt with no iodine or caking agents.
Of course, in addition to salt and water, you will need peppers, along with anything else you want to use as flavorings for your hot sauce (onions, garlic, carrots, spices). This is a place to experiment. Fiery Ferments by Shockey has lots of recipes (and recipes for great condiments like mustard as well), but also encourages experimentation.
There are two methods to making fermented vegetables. You can mash the vegetables with salt, or add a brine. If you mash the vegetables with a brine, chop all of them fine, then add some salt. Taste it – you should be able to taste the salt, but it shouldn’t be salty. Then massage the vegetables until liquid appears – that’s the brine. Pack it into a jar and add the weight and airlock. Alternatively, you can roughly chop the vegetables and add a brine. This is what I did – see below.
What I Did
This year I planted six different pepper plants: cayenne, jalapeno, habanero, two different bell and one sweet ‘frying pepper’. All of my plants were prolific, and I decided to try making my own hot sauce.
I started off with a mix of peppers – red and green jalapenos, New Mexico peppers, cayenne peppers, onions, and carrots. I added carrots for a little sweetness. I used two tablespoons of salt per 5 cups of water for the brine. I put the chopped vegetables into the jar and poured in the brine. I did two jars. I have glass weights that I can drop into the jar (and I have a cover and air-lock valves). After adding the cover with airlock, I poured more brine into the airlock (following the directions). But, as mentioned above, you don’t actually need it. You could just fill a Ziploc bag with brine and put it on top.
The main consideration (as above) is the mnemonic “below the brine, it’ll be fine”. You want to keep the fermenting vegetables below the brine. Anything that sticks up will just rot rather than ferment. Just putting a Ziploc bag filled with brine on top will take care of it. After a few days, you should be seeing bubbles in the jar. That indicates that it is fermenting. Now, if you are using the Ziploc method, then you should also watch for any air bubbles in the ferment. If one shows up, push the fermented vegetables down to bring the bubble to the surface and make sure that all the vegetables stay below the surface. In the picture, if you look at the airlock, you can see a few bubbles.
One developed a green mold, so I threw it out. I let the second ferment for two weeks, but it looked and tasted muddy, so I threw it out.
Finally, I did habanero peppers, orange bell pepper and some onion. After a few weeks, I made it into sauce. First, I drained it and then put it in the food processor. I kept the brine, because I wanted a thin sauce and planned to use the brine to thin it out. But the food processor wasn’t doing a good enough job of pulverizing it, so I put it through my food mill (and forgot to take pictures.)
Then I brought it to a boil. I did this to stop the fermentation, but it isn’t necessary, and probably wasn’t necessary in my case either. In general, once activity seems to stop, you should transfer your ferment to the fridge. It should last about 12 months in the fridge. I added some apple cider vinegar to the sauce and poured it into the bottle.
I like this hot sauce. It isn’t especially hot (fermentation will mellow out the peppers a bit) but it has a nice flavor and a lingering heat. There’s still pulp in the sauce and next year I will put it through a sieve to take that out.
I had my neighbor taste test it and he asked to put in an order for next year. Next year, I’ll make more hot sauces. I plan to do one based on just green jalapenos, one based on red jalapenos and cayenne and another based on habaneros again (maybe several – neighbor is serious about wanting some)[1]. I plan to try a bunch of other ferments. The Fiery Ferments book by Shockley has lots of different condiments (mustards, curries, etc.) that I want to try. In addition, I want to make a sauerkraut and probably fermented carrots. I’ll let you know how they turn out.
[1] Westernsloper – he also loves your candied jalapenos. I gave him your recipe and now he thinks I’m a culinary genius. I did tell him it wasn’t my recipe.
Neat!
Nice, Tulip.
I dried the peppers that Fourscore gave me (it was a bad garden year for me) then ground them up. A little bit on my morning eggs really wakes me up and clears my sinus passages.
I think Leap was going to ferment peppers this year. We’ll see if he weighs in.
There are some ways to remove chlorine from tap water as well. But for the small amounts needed here, that would probably be overkill.
I love all fermented foods, but as I’ve aged, the hot ones have become no-nos. :-/
Very cool stuff.
I’d like to try making a Bajan hot sauce sometime. My sister bought me a bottle of it on her trip to Barbados and it was delightful, but they’re hard to find in stores around here.
This is relevant to my interests, but alas, I’m very lazy in the kitchen.
^
Salt/Pepper/Garlic (or some spice blend), meat, vegetable, heat. Done.
This is ideal for the lazy. Chop veggies, add some salt, put in jar and then…just…leave it alone.
I’ve been working 22+ years for a company whose slogan used to be “Fermantation is our business!” One good thing about working for a company that makes a staple food ingredient, business is usually always good, people have to eat.
Not a fan of hot sauces, mild buffalo chicken wings are my limit. I know several people who are constantly searching for new ways to immolate their mouths with hot stuff.
I like my hot sauces but my body as time goes on does not.
I don’t like hot for the sake of being hot. It needs to have a flavor profile. Smokey, tangy, fruity, whatever.
I think this is a good balance of taste & heat.
Though, I skew to the high end of heat tolerance.
Too much Scoville for me.
I like spicy, smoky, tangy but I have a low tolerance for heat or anything that causes a burning sensation.
Yellow Bird does that — they make a sauce out of a combination of a pepper, a vegetable, and a fruit, based on matching the color.
Orange: Habanero/carrot/tangerine
Green: serrano/tomatillo/lime
Red: jalepenos and I forget.
Instagram Fight Club. Apparently you are not allowed to win. Grandson just got beat pretty badly by a mob. What the fuck was he doing there? His grades are fine, he works a good job and has a girlfriend. Hurtful news.
What the fuck was he doing there?
Young males are not noted for their foresight or good judgment. Sorry to hear it cost him so much this time.
Sorry to hear that Festus.
Is he going to be ok?
Ugh sorry to hear that Festus.
Does he have red hair?
https://youtu.be/9w6UUkkOmgo
Saw your Xmas workload horror story. Hopefully that too will pass in a reasonable amount of time. I wish the janitors our workplace has actually have a crap, but for the peanuts they’re getting paid, I’m not surprised they don’t. Stupid dumb things though like turning off the motion sensors when they finish with the restrooms. Who does that?
Sorry to hear this Festus. Hope he recovers soon.
Sorry Festus. Is he going to be OK?
Where is his boot for his broken foot?
JUST IN:
President-ElectJoe Biden says he’ll announce his choice for defense secretary on Friday.Good question. I see a little bit of a limp, but no way that foot was broken in the last week or so. I wonder what they are lying about this time?
Also, nice mask, Joe.
Well Trump went to Walter Reid a year ago and told no one why. No more questions, thank you. /Communications
Director
They would have had to put it over his head for the problem he probably actually had.
In fact, I think just for safety, they should do that anyway.
I plan on having a small still at the new Animal Compound North.
Strictly for medicinal purposes, of course.
I’ve wanted one of those for a long time.
And antifreeze!
Looks Spicy!
may be a fun project, thanks T!
Well, this is interesting:
<a href="https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/audit-of-dominion-machine-found-it-routinely-shifted-votes-to-biden/"<Audit of Dominion machine found it routinely shifted votes to Biden.
Shit:
Audit of Dominion machine found it routinely shifted votes to Biden.
I don’t trust that site. If it were true, it would be on a real news site, like CNN.
That was only half sarcasm, you can guess which half.
UPDATE: This Twitter feed includes some corroborating information, including a link to an independent story describing these results in the Georgia Star.
Not familiar with the Georgia Star, but it seems this should be at least looked into.
Freedom of speech doesn’t mean people can just publish hate speech or false things. We need to make sure people are only free to say things I agree with. /Journalist
Confident prediction:
Biden gets sworn in. Harris’s DOJ investigates pretty much nothing involving the election, and any current investigations are quietly dropped.
Dribs and drabs of information further corroborating shenanigans of varying scope continue to trickle out, are ignored by the DemOp Media, and eliminated from DemOp social media platforms.
A final accounting of an election that has serious legitimacy problems is never made.
Dems use whatever means they have, state, federal, and local, to ramp up mail-in voting, ballot harvesting, and further undermine election security. Repub operatives either don’t care because they think they can cheat as well as the Dems, or their concerns are ignored.
Another American institution – elections – is skinsuited by the Left.
This all becomes a relatively minor issue when the
chickensvultures come home to roost following the hollowing out of the American economy, currency, and social trust.I think Republicans *will* actually have some success locking things down in states they control, but if they manage to let the Senate slip away too things are going to get worse and worse.
btw, remember how stacey abrams complained there was massive fraud and we all laughed at her?
her republican competitor outperformed what the statistical models said were possible in that election.
which made me doubt polls, of course, which i was already skeptical of.
and yet…….
it actually makes me feel a bit better to think the republicans are actually cheating too. at least they’re trying.
Polls =/= statistical models of voting patterns. The claims the Repubs are putting up are more the latter, along with supporting first-hand evidence of shenanigans.
Georgia last elected a Dem Governor in 1999.
I haven’t heard any details about what she claimed in terms of voter fraud. I mean, she’s just so odious that I ignore her on principle. Couldn’t really say if there was anything to her claims.
My wife (who is mainlining Fox, OAN, and News) said the same thing the other day. ‘ Don’t you think the Republicans are doing the same thing?’ And they probably are, though perhaps with different tactics. They’re not made of finer clay.
Of course they are. The problem is that when it comes to this stuff, the Democrats have a natural advantage by being in total control of most of the population dense areas of the country. The Republicans might rule Knox, Indiana with an iron fist, sabotaging any and all challenges to their hegemony. But at the end of the day, it’s a small amount of people and there’s only so much they can cheat in a state wide election. Philadelphia on the other hand…
This claim about election fraud is disputed.
The AP has called the presidential race for Joe Biden.
Robust safeguards help ensure the integrity of elections and results.
Old news.
Also, the person who was able to show Dominion votes changing from Trump to Biden when fed into the machine (allegedly), was not allowed to speak at the hearing:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/elections-expert-garland-favorito-not-allowed-speak-state-hearing-evidence-dominion-vote-switching-georgia/
I don’t know how credible this is, though, because no mainstream conservative sites have even reported this.
I don’t know how credible this is, though, because no mainstream conservative sites have even reported this.
I’m convinced the GOP old guard and their media sycophants are, at the very least, completely ignoring the election fraud to dump Trump. There’s evidence coming out that Kemp and others in the GA state party engaged in it. I think it was RC who used the term yesterday “the Swampublicans”. Fits perfect. The ideal scenario for the old Conservative guard is Biden winning and the GOP retaining the Senate.
That’s the thing though. Breitbart, for instance. The Blaze. None of those are even reporting it.
Those sites have done nothing but suck the president’s dick for the past 4 years.
It makes me wonder whether there’s much there.
How would you know if nobody will even seriously investigate it? It’s the odd lack of curiosity about these things that’s disturbing.
What I’m speculating is that they are looking into it and deciding it’s nothing. Breitbart actually has real fact checking.
Then why wouldn’t they report that they investigated and found it was not true/credible for the following reasons?
Because they’re politically biased. Their reputation will be hurt by printing things that turn out to be crap but ignoring news that benefits the other side is or for the course.
Then why wouldn’t the CNNs, MSNBCs, WaPos, etc. look into it to present it as a “debunking” of the “phony fraud” conspiracy theories? It just doesn’t make sense that nobody seems at all curious.
The DemOps learned from Hunter’s laptop that there is not more effective way to kill a story than to just ignore it.
I am still stunned, BTW, that a story of that magnitude, which nobody has ever denied any part of, just . . . disappeared. Direct implication of a Presidential candidate in foreign corruption, and not just with some third-rater like Ukraine, but with China, and just . . . poof.
And it didn’t just disappear from the media. It apparently also disappeared from the DOJ and FBI.
I’m seeing that the Arizona legislature just contested AZ’s election results. Something about invoking Article 2, Section 1. I’m not able to figure out what this actually means though.
BTW, remember the Fulton County “fact check”?
They’ve just released audio of Georgia Election Official Ralph Jones announcing that the polling place was closing and telling people to go home, just before counting the “remaining” ballots in secret.
I keep hearing things that corroborate the sworn affidavits that shenanigans occurred. But, see above re confident prediction.
I agree with you and also agree with Urthona’s first reponse.
I think the GOP senate races in GA will be accurately counted, because the state is run by the GOP. They will win the Senate races.
the state is run by the GOP.
Fulton County isn’t.
I do like the theory that the Repubs running GA were happy to see Trump gone, but would like to keep the Senate. Now, I don’t know if they were actually NeverTrumpers, but their . . . tepid response to the evidence of shenanigans in the Presidential election seems on point.
I am reminded of some meetings I had in Austin with Repub operatives back in the Tea Party days. Even though the Tea Party was a signficant benefit to them, they fucking hated the movement and the people it elected. Their animosity toward fellow Republicans who didn’t fit in with the old guard vastly exceeded their animosity toward Democrats.
This will be an extremely closely watched election by both sides.
No one will be sending observers home in the middle of the night and then counting ballots in secret.
The press (as shitty as they are) will be out in force at every counting location.
Fulton County will need to have a new way of cheating.
And I think that new way will be flooding the system with mail in ballots from “new” residents to the state.
I don’t have a lot of confidence that a fair election will be held for the two Senate seats.
Link?
So Ware Co did the handcount audit that I suggested every precinct should do.
Although my idea would pick a random race or two per precinct, so it wouldn’t be the Prez race in every one. But it wouldn’t be the precinct workers deciding which ones. They would find out after polls close which races to audit. If the machine doesn’t match the hand count exactly, you hand count every race in the precinct. If the problem is wide-spread, you handcount everything.
A guy at work brings in jars of jalapeno jelly which a lot of people like. I have no interest in trying it, sounds disgusting. I never liked any type of jelly, when I was kid I always ate peanut butter sandwiches, preferably made with “crunchy” peanut butter. PBJ- yuk. I can remember when my mom bought some of that premixed PBJ abomination – it’s was challenge trying to scoop out any PB untainted by jelly.
I definitely prefer jams, marmalades, preserves, or compotes over jelly.
I eat Jalepenos all the the time, Jelly (jam, marmalade..) like a few times a year. I have a Jalepeno jam/jellly/… in the kitchen from a year ago I havn’t touched, not because I have anything against spicy jams, but just I don’t usually eat that type of thing.
Jalapeno jelly dumped over cream cheese with triscuits/hard crackers is a delicious holiday snack.
Costco also has a raspberry chipolte sauce that works really well, too.
Thanks. I’ll have to remember this next summer. I had tons of peppers this year, and it would have been fun to make hot sauce. I never even knew this was a thing.
My go-to book for making wine is “The Joy of Home Wine Making”. In it there’s an FAQ section, and one of the questions is, “Will this stuff kill me or make me go blind?” Her answer, just like yours, is that if it smells, looks, or tastes bad it’s not safe. If anything has gone wrong, the result won’t be subtle.
Thanks Tulip for putting this together, always enjoy your articles even though my kitchen skills are subpar.
Everyone I know in Brazil has several bottles of this stuff they’ve made sitting around the house. I’ve tried a lot of them, just cayenne peppers are still my fav for that.
This is great, Tulip!
I buy a Scotch Bonnet sauce for jerk and would love to try making my own!
What is the jar that you use?
You referring to the little flip top one? You can find them online in a variety of shapes and sizes. Or you could just buy Grolsch beer, drink it, then clean the bottle. You can even buy replacement rubber grommets for them as they degrade.
I use them for different simple syrups in the fridge.
Sorry. I meant the fermentation jar. With the cool airlock.
There’s all sorts of specialty lids you can get (Ball even has a whole kit), the airlocks can be ordered online or at any homebrew shop for a couple of bucks. Once you’ve got the airlock, you could also just drill a hole and drop in an airlock.
Or, what Neph said
The airlock is from Year of Plenty. Fits any wide mouth mason jar.
Less than $20 for set of 4
Perfect!
Thanks, Tulip!
When I brewed my own beer, I always called them concentrated fart launchers.
Looks good. Alas, I too am lazy, which is why I don’t brew beer anymore either.
Why buy Grolsch when Uerige comes in the same swingtops?
I have a bunch of Uerige bottles.
Specifically…this: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1923/24042/
I don’t think I’ve ever seen that on the shelves here. Of course, I rarely see Grolsch on the shelf either.
I used to see it in Indiana.
Wide mouth pint jars, then just a flip top I had.
So you’re saying you are a racist who doesn’t think Black Bodies can make hot sauce, because you don’t thin Black Bodies are Clean!??!?!?!?! #Progection
I got to see the baby hot sauce! The color is beautiful!
Thanks for the article, Tulip. We get a lot of hot peppers every year from the garden and will need to try this out.
Lactobacillus turns ordinary beer into super beer.
Yea sour ales.
YaY Sours!
California sour alles!
Cool. Will try. I’ve done pickled red onions and pickled cucumbers a bunch. They generally urn out awesome (although I have never fermented them first).
Due to the number of promotions Reaper was running when I placed my order, half of this box is stuff I didn’t have to pay for.
The funniest thing is that their paint sampler has bottles of paint with big labels saying “Sample”… but nowhere does it say the name of the paint color, so if you like one, ordering more is a problem.
Well, shit. Few things really surprise me these days, let alone genuinely disappoint me. Ive set a really, really, low bar for everyone around me.
But this ? Someone find Sloop, lock him in a room, and start suicide watch.
BREAKING: Ohio State, Michigan football game cancelled
Well shit. There go my Saturday plans.
Thats exactly what I texted Jugsy.
Bummer, but take solace in the Army-Navy game.
Go Navy! Beat Army!
The words are correct, but in the wrong order.
There are four and a butt days until Army beats the hell out of Navy in Football at Michie Stadium.
If the B1G doesn’t change their rules, doesn’t that mean Indiana makes the title game?
Indiana v Northwestern, as predicted by everyone before the season started.
Female(?) mall Santa is asshoe.
That is one shitty Santa….
The idea of a female mall Santa offends me.
Much totemism.
So far, my intentional typo “Beast Oncology” has gone unnoticed in both a meeting invite and several emails.
I’m starting to think:
(a) I need a break, and
(b) people don’t really pay attention to what I send them.
Best?
Dude.
Breast.
Huh…my other option was East.
Not very bright, am I.
Q haz a sad.
What are you people even talking about? Did you actually read a RC Dean comment?
Beast Ontology.
Change it to Beast Colonsocopy and see if anyone notices.
-1 critical error. You’ve been warned.
What I like about it is, it doesn’t flag on the spellchecker.
Santa is coming early to the Casa Dean. This will be delivered on Thursday. Dark leather, with the ottoman.
Honestly, shouldn’t have sprung for it. But fuckit, it was on sale, and I may as well be comfortable while the world goes to shit.
That’s a Total Shitlord’s Chair. Nice!
This looks neat.
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2020/12/federal-judge-rejects-second-effort-to-block-states-62-million-fund-for-black-oregonians.html
Paywalled, but available in reader view.
Second time a Fed Judge doesn’t immediately halt an openly racist & clear misuse of federal funds and limits the plaintiffs’ relief to merely the equivalent grant money they could also receive. Which the grifting connected org that runs the slush fund puts into escrow in the slight event of a loss months or years from now (while I’m sure collecting a percentage on top of those specific funds in addition to the rest of the slush fund).
The governor and the others that dreamed up and are defending this fund are absolutely right about one thing. There is systemic racism. And they are the racists and this is Exhibit A of their not just racist beliefs, but racist actions. Thanks assholes for regressing 80 years.
“What did surprise us is we hadn’t really thought through the economic impacts.” ~ Melinda Gates
Funny, I’m not surprised at all that you didn’t really think it through.
#metoo
I mean at least she’s honest. The rest of the lizard brained retards arguing to shut it down won’t even acknowledge it affects anyone economically.
You greedy people care about money more than about saving lives.
/self-righteous progtard
————
Seriously, large numbers of people seem to think that “the economy” is an optional interest, like sports. “Do you follow the economy?” “No, I prefer baseball.”
If you think the Economy is a bunch of Scrooge McDucks with bags of money, rather than the Economy as the sum total of all human interaction, it simply might not occur to you that locking people down and shuttering business has an affect on EVERYONE.
I was chatting with a pastor yesterday. His weekend included consoling the family of a 27 year old dude who killed himself.
Anyone who refuses to even try to understand the human toll of deliberately tanking the economy deserves to DIAF.
I was chatting with a pastor yesterday. His weekend included consoling the family of a 27 year old dude who killed himself.
Fuck.
It’s like SimCity, you can totally central plan every aspect and account for every transaction, seen and unseen.
(*ignore every previous failures of centrally planned economies)
Where is the UFO attack option?
Yeah, but that wasn’t social democratic centrally planned economies…
They think it’s the stock market. “oh, I don’t have a 401k, so I don’t care about the economy.”
It’s one of those “you may not care about it, but it cares about you” sorts of situations. (i hate anthropmorphizing/abstracting away the economy, so apologies for the analogy)
My cousin, the dependa, is a perfect example of this. She has never had a consistent job other than working in retail during the summer/school breaks prior to her marriage. She is a full on progtard that never misses a chance to lecture the rest of us about our obligation to protect people who are probably going to die anyway. The shutdown has not impacted her life at all since, you know, you can be a dependa anywhere.
This. Last spring when everything was going to pieces I commented to a friend about the effect of the closures on working-class folks. He reply was along the lines of, “I don’t want to kill people just to prop up the stock market.”
Thus spake the former Bob marketing manager
Thank you for the description and photos of your adventures!
Just yesterday I was wondering what on earth to give my husband for Christmas. He doesn’t need anything and we are anti-hoarding.
But the Fiery Ferments book looks perfect! I already had planned to grow peppers in two of my elevated garden boxes, and this sort of project might be fun.I’ll look through Lee Valley catalog for attractive jars and tools to complete the gift package.
He likes to make limoncello so I know he has patience if properly motivated.
Thanks for the idea!
Just yesterday I was wondering what on earth to give my husband for Christmas.
A blowjob?
/ducking
She said they were anti-whoreding.
/Ducks a lot lower
SP is the Ferment Mistress chez nous. We’ve been inspired a lot by Andrea Nguyen.
Clearly we need to step up our game.
I used to work with a chemist named Andy Nguyen.
Did he transition and I didnt know ?
“What did surprise us is we hadn’t really thought through the economic impacts.” ~ Melinda Gates
I’m with R C. That does not surprise me in the least. Typical spoiled-child “solution”: ME WANT DO DIS. DO NOW!
I broke my No Twatter rule, and clicked on the Melinda Gates thing, above. The self-proclaimed teacher doing her shrieking chimp-out below that was pretty amusing.
I bet she’s a tiger in the sack.
What sort of personal protective equipment is recommended for use in the “Beast Oncology” lab?
A muzzle?
A chair and a whip?
Very cool Tulip. I’m looking forward to your article on sauerkraut.
I’m jonesing for sauerbraten now.
I just checked the menu for the two local German restaurants. One of them doesn’t have a menu online anymore, and the other currently doesn’t have sauerbraten on the menu.
At least you have local German restaurants. They’re dying out around here.
The one has been around since 1995. The other just announced that they had closed on the building across the street, and were going to remodel it into a brewery. That got announced in January… they’re the ones without online menus right now.
Pretty!
I do not do peppers of any type that are not completely dried out and ground up, but this looks like a fun project.
Why?
BREAKING: Ohio State, Michigan football game cancelled
Could this be the breaking point? Maybe we’ll finally see a couple of state capitols burned to the ground.
Wait until they change the rules and put TOSU in the Big Ten championship game because they’re a bigger name, screwing over one of the other teams.
It’s going to happen. Oh well, just sets anOSU up for their annual playoff loss to Clemson.
Maybe they’ll get Alabama instead.
Why don’t people update their addresses when they move?
I dump mail that I don’t need to look at into a shred box, including mail for other people. Today the shred box was full, so I’ve been shredding it. Since my shredder grade is officially “shitty residential model”. I have to break a lot of these down so that I can unfold the contents and not jam the machine.
So far, I’ve found two credit cards and a debit card. Not offers, the actual cards that other people were waiting for. Both of the credit cards were for the same guy, from the same bank, so he went and said “I never got my card” and didn’t ask to see if they had his current address. Moreover, these weren’t addressed to the person I bought the house from Four and a half years ago, these were from people who lived here Before her. Moreover, since they had different names, I can’t even assume they were here at the same time.
You’re under no obligation to do so, but you could write “Return to sender” on the bank ones. Then the bank can try to reach the guy.
When I moved I printed a bunch of labels “Return to sender. No longer at this address” so I didn’t have to keep scribbling on mail.
It’s a bit late now, I shredded the cards and paperwork.
I’ve been thinking more about this Fang Fang thing. She manages to groom a future Presidential candidate from city councilor of a minor town and get associated with yet another candidate. Clearly she wasn’t and isn’t the only agent working, but to be starting that far deep in the bench raises even more questions to me.
Not sure how this isn’t a Title VI violation, but…
Cornell requires that you get a flu vaccination to “protect the community.”
However, there are three exemptions: Medical, Religious, and… BIPOC status.
Copied from https://health.cornell.edu/get-care/health-requirements-new-students/FAQ#exemption
Well that’s a bunch of bullshit.
Dafuq?
A racial exemption for non-Caucasians?
I’ve been doing this science thing wrong all my life…
Your own assessment of the risk your presence on campus might pose to you or others will not factor in their decision.
Kneel before Zod.
That looks seriously delicious, Tulip. Thanks so much for the post!