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The "stasis" vehicle is apparently a small sphere, about the size and shape of a walnut. I can't remember what it's called.

20 bottles of tomatoes so far, and 3 bottles of juice. The lid blew off two bottles yesterday, one while in the cooker and one while...

This is a modular home. Somebody (probably some government bureaucrat) came up with the brilliant idea that there must be ventilation...

I think I caught the last of the house mice yesterday. The only mice I'm seeing at this point are the larger field mice. The silly...

Tomatoes today. First batch is in the cooker.

My old house was in a dry riverbed. They had forced the creek into a culvert so they could build the subdivision. As I worked on...

I did foraged mushrooms once. Problem with foraged mushrooms is that the critters like them as much as we do so they often have bug...

all good to know and i hope that helps you get your hot pepper sauce made properly at last! :) when i've watched a lot of the mass...

In most fermentation processes the water is either drained off or used to store the product. I assumed peppers would be the same...

I did find some additional information, though. Hot sauce is fermented without water. I hadn't caught that before. The ratios are for...

Kham yeast is not generally considered a bad thing. It's a wild yeast that gets into many fements and it's completely harmless. But its...

Non-iodized table salt. For most ferments I use beween 2 and 3 T per quart. 5 t is just under 2 T. I normally make up a quart of brine...

Only a canning question indirectly, as I was planning to can fermented hot sauce. Every time I try to ferment peppers they go sour...

I've trapped probably 20 mice in the last week. 5 yesterday, one so far this morning. Only 1 trap, because the silly creatures actually...