Pack a perfect pickle. Food Safety Feature Articles Pack a perfect pickle Tammy Roberts, MS, RD, LD, Nutrition and Health Education Specialist, Barton County, University of Missouri Extension Pickling is a different way to enjoy cucumbers and is often an easy process, but there are some important things to know to assure pickles are safe to eat.
The main ingredients used for pickling are acid, salt, sugar and spices. Lime and alum are also sometimes used to make crisper pickles. The amount of acid, or vinegar, used is very important for the safety of the pickles. In pickling, salt is the ingredient that helps assure proper fermentation. If a pickling recipe calls for sugar, use white sugar — which gives the end product a lighter color — unless the recipe specifically calls for brown. Choosing whole or fresh spices will give you the best quality of pickles. Follow instructions carefully for using lime when making pickles. Quality for Keeps: Pack a Pickled Product Quality for Keeps: Food Preservation — In a Pickle. 4 Aquaphonics. Aquaponics Websites. The Multi-Fuel Generator: Don’t Depend on Just Gas… Having a generator for back-up power is great – unless you don’t have the fuel to run the generator.
The irony of the portable back-up generator – most of them, at least – is that they run on gas. And what’s the item that’s usually hard to get when the power’s down? Gas. About two weeks ago, a violent storm line called a derecho passed through our area; thousands of people lost power – not for a few hours, but in some cases, for a week or more. The lines queued up real fast at local gas stations – the ones with still-operable pumps, anyhow.
Many people had generators. And this was just a relatively minor (and known-to-be-temporary) situation. Which means you probably won’t get any gas. No gas = no power. Well, you could store up some gas. Which means – once again – you won’t have power. That’s why I converted our generator to operate on multiple fuels – gasoline, propane and natural gas. The obvious one is I am not entirely dependent on gasoline for back-up power. Electricity Through Compost: The Jean Pain Method. Jean Pain was a French visionary who established a compost based bioenergy system that provided all his energy needs.
For washing and heating he heated water to 60 degrees celsius at a rate of 4 litres a minute. Through these experiments he concluded that a circular coil or series of concentric circular coils was the best design for extracting heat from a compost consistent with ease of constructing and deconstructing the pile. He also distilled enough methane to power an electricity generator, cooking elements, and run his truck. Come to be known as the Jean Pain Method this process of energy production through the composting of waste materials has been exported throughout the world.
The idea is to produce and store methane generated from the compost pile but in order to do so, the temperature must be kept fairly low. Jean Pain with Compost Heap and Water Bearing Hose The devastation of the Mediterranean forest by fire was of chief concern to Pain. Like this: Like Loading... Build Your Own Biogas Generator. Can you imagine having to find wood for fuel to cook breakfast?
What if you had to do it in a place without any trees? What if you had to burn that wood inside a small kitchen, where the smoke you inhaled made you sick? That’s the reality many of Heifer’s project partners, especially women, face every day. The great news is that the same livestock that are providing them with nutrition and income have something else to offer ? Their waste, which can fuel a biogas generator and provide an odorless cooking fuel piped right into the family’s kitchen! You can build your own version of a biogas generator (no animal waste required!)
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