Doc Dougherty @Doc3

Chief Pragmatist Center for Elegant Design Playa del Rey Joined December 2008

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Doc Dougherty @Doc3

3 years ago

@NPRKelly I will experiment with the waterbath and confirm you need to buy them hard and bright green (and with a stem). They are ripe when the stem wiggles easily. Most avocados go bad because poorly educated "customers" squeeze them after they have started to ripen and you can't tell.

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3 years ago

For those who are joining the Twitter Spaces conversation with @Upgrade_My_Food and @vidhyavegkitchn, you can find some additional potentially useful and more technical information about making idli at thefreshloaf.com/node/68503/idl…

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Doc Dougherty @Doc3

3 years ago

The data for terra cotta bear weight gain can be found here: bit.ly/3IIg2YK water emersion time vs mg of water absorbed.

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4 years ago

For those of you who have an interest in sourdough bread, I have put up a blog post that deals with some of the front end steps to consider. Available at thefreshloaf.com/node/68585/met…

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Doc Dougherty @Doc3

4 years ago

For the technophiles who want to dig deeper, I have updated the idli post on TheFreshLoaf to include a bibliography. thefreshloaf.com/node/68503/idl…

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5 years ago

John J. Mooney, an Inventor of the Catalytic Converter, Dies at 90 nytimes.com/2020/06/25/cli… Except that a catalytic converter does not prevent carbon emissions, it just converts CO to CO2 and hydrocarbons to CO2 + H2O; the third type turns NOx into N2 and CO2