Are you kidding me, water conservation at its finest.
This goes on all the time by noon there won't be one bit of that water left in the ground. :(
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Got a little experiment going on here.
Fermenting cucumbers.
Probably breaking every rule in the book.:lol:
Salt content vinegar content and water are right.
Temperature in the house at 73.
Cucumbers covered at about 2 inches.
Cant wait for the bubbles to start.
If this even come close to working I'm going to buy a fermenting crock.

Worth

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You're gonna want something in there to hold down the cukes and keep them submerged. I've never done it myself, but I watched a Good Eats episode on it and Alton seemed pretty adamant that they need to stay submerged. Here's Alton Brown's method, he just uses a Ziploc bag full of water: [URL]http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/dill-pickles-recipe.html[/URL]

[QUOTE=TexasTycoon;495958]You're gonna want something in there to hold down the cukes and keep them submerged. I've never done it myself, but I watched a Good Eats episode on it and Alton seemed pretty adamant that they need to stay submerged. Here's Alton Brown's method, he just uses a Ziploc bag full of water: [URL]http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/dill-pickles-recipe.html[/URL][/QUOTE]


If you look on the last picture there is another glass lid holding the cucumbers down.:)
Worth

[QUOTE=Worth1;495959]If you look on the last picture there is another glass lid holding the cucumbers down.:)
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You know, I thought there was something there but I couldn't tell what it was. Hope these turn out! :)

I'm going to end up with about one gallon of pickles if this turns out.

I want them to be like the Claussen pickles.:yes:

Worth

What kind of peppers are in there Worth?

I've always wanted to try fermentation! Let us know how it turns out! (Like you would keep a thing like that a secret from us!)

[QUOTE=RobinB;495970]What kind of peppers are in there Worth?

I've always wanted to try fermentation! Let us know how it turns out! (Like you would keep a thing like that a secret from us!)[/QUOTE]

They are Chili Arbol I can get them for really cheap here in Texas at the Fiesta market.

They have replaced the cayenne pepper for me.
I buy bags and bags of them and make flake and powder with them.

I would like to add I got the recipe from the National Center for Home Food Preservation and tweeked the spices a bit.
For a gallon of brine you need 1 cup of canning salt and 1/2 cup of 5% acidity vinegar.
I used RO (revers osmosis) water because I have an RO system here at home.
The chlorine tap water is way too high to use here.


Worth

A little hobby of mine I like to take old Mausers and sporterise them.
I picked this surplus Turkish mauser for $60 some time ago.
I had to bust the stock off and do a ton of reshaping and grinding on it.
Then I had to polish it and blue it.
Also I cut and turned the bolt down and did I a four panel checking on the bolt knob.
Then there was the adjustable trigger I made that I have set for 3 pounds.
I put a new 17 1/2 inch barrel 6.5x55 barrel on it and it drove nails.
Now I am in the process of putting a 29 inch barrel on it.
Worth

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Cool gun.

Random pic: [url]https://imgur.com/gallery/Bobhn2U[/url]

Pots and pans
 

I have had my pots and pans hanging up for years but where to put the lids has driven me crazy.
After a brain storm hit me I came up with this idea.
Some of you may not agree but a kitchen is a work place I dont want to be shuffling stuff around to get to things.

Now I have more room to put some stuff in the lowers that was driving me nuts.

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This last one I came up with while doing the others.
I feel like an idiot for not coming up with it sooner.
If your lids have a loop instead of a knob you simply slide the lid over the handle and hang.
Ingenious. :lol:
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I have another huge kettle and another lid being used right now that aren't shown.
I don't need anymore kettles. :lol:
Now for those pesky cast iron things.
Ah got it.
Worth

[QUOTE=Worth1;496069]I have had my pots and pans hanging up for years but where to put the lids has driven me crazy.
After a brain storm hit me I came up with this idea.
Some of you may not agree but a kitchen is a work place I dont want to be shuffling stuff around to get to things.

Now I have more room to put some stuff in the lowers that was driving me nuts.

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This last one I came up with while doing the others.
I feel like an idiot for not coming up with it sooner.
If your lids have a loop instead of a knob you simply slide the lid over the handle and hang.
Ingenious. :lol:
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I have another huge kettle and another lid being used right now that aren't shown.
I don't need anymore kettles. :lol:
Now for those pesky cast iron things.
Ah got it.
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:lol:Before I saw the pics I was about to tell you to just put your lids on your handles! The other thing I like for lids (since we have nowhere to hang pots in the apartment) is an organizer they sell at Walmart and probably Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, those types of places. It holds the lids on end so they don't take up so much room in your cupboard.

Like this:
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But mine dips in in the centers of the wires so that the handles (knob or loop) can hold on. I've also seen people put a towel bar on the wall and slide the lids between it and the wall with the handles holding onto the bar.

[QUOTE=TexasTycoon;496075]:lol:Before I saw the pics I was about to tell you to just put your lids on your handles! The other thing I like for lids (since we have nowhere to hang pots in the apartment) is an organizer they sell at Walmart and probably Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, those types of places. It holds the lids on end so they don't take up so much room in your cupboard.

Like this:
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But mine dips in in the centers of the wires so that the handles (knob or loop) can hold on. I've also seen people put a towel bar on the wall and slide the lids between it and the wall with the handles holding onto the bar.[/QUOTE]

I just pulled one of those contraptions out of my cupboard. :lol:
I hated the thing I have eight glass lids and one was so big it wouldn't fit, it is for the 22 quart kettle.

Bending down in the dark I could never tell what lid went to what.
Plus I was always fighting lids to keep them from rolling out.
Then what to do with the double boiler top and the three pasta strainer baskets steamers and so on.

Can you believe all of this started with a George Foreman grill?:lol:

I got it for Christmas from my brother and I needed it like a hole in my head.
I returned it and traded for a stainless multi clad bottomed kettle.
I liked it so much I started collecting the things.
The one not in the picture is a 12 quart with the cucumbers in it.
While pulling lids I found one to use as a weight that just barely fits inside the kettle.

I dont just collect these things I use them.:)
On a plus side the kettles hang and collect dust in them.
With the lid attached the dust cant get in.

Worth

All of this shuffling around and I got what I was looking for.
A place to put the meat grinder and sausage stuffer. :lol:
Now I have my counter top back.
Pay no attention to the little guys reflection in the stove. :twisted:
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Worth, are you goin' off the deep end? Pots and pans, fermented pickles then Mouser actions all in the same day.. There ain't enough hours in a day for all of that brain activity..