Why use YouTube when you can make and customise your own? I know someone sent me one a while ago that looked pretty good, just googled and found this one that is open source. https://moodist.mvze.net/

Not sure if there are better ones, might be something to look into.

If I wanted a web UI I would just make a script that ran yt-dlp $1 and then use php shell_exec(script URL);

Ahh shame to lose glass. Currently got 5x5L glass demijohns. Should probably start another mead soon, might be worth getting more bottles sometime too. Its odd, buying 20 cans seems normal, but buying 20 (more) bottles feels excessive.

I don’t NEED more, but it would mean that the mead can age for longer by rotating through a larger volume.

I like my glass demijohns but the volume of some of the plastic ones is kinda tempting sometimes. There was a guy on reddit that used a 100L water butt for fermenting in

Never really found it gets gooey unless I stir it lots.

Can always distill rocket fuel though … So I hear.

Why do people wash rice? Never really bothered with it. 2:1 usually works pretty nicely, get the water boiling add the rice and put it on low. Come back when ready.

Or like 4-5 to 1 with milk and have it as rice pudding/porridge.

It needs time to reduce how tough it is, either slow cooking it or let it soak in vinegar (and other things for seasoning) for a long time before cooking. Often go for that if I am going to cook it over a firepit.

This week I will be slow cooking it in a pasta sauce. Skin/fat removed and frozen to use another time, rendering the fat in a saucepan and keep it cooking until the solid bits go crispy, delicious with salt and I keep the fat in a pot in the fridge. I freeze it so that I can render it in batches as its quite a mess to clean up and loves sticking to the pan. I do wonder if a wire mesh to keep it off the base of the pan would help.

I do know vegans that are fine with eating honey, but generally it isn’t considered a vegan food.

I have a sack of white rice to eat through… I don’t really know what to do with it all. My partner got it from work. Would rather basmati rice really.

If we are counting singular food items, surely haggis would be a better choice for mixed nutritional values. Both are probably lacking vitamin C though so I hope you like scurvy.

Still ferments, I just use the cheapest stuff from Aldi because otherwise a gallon would cost me an absolute fortune to make. It would be nice to get into beekeeping to have my own source of honey but my garden is pretty small. Plus it looks like its quite a bit of money to spend on something when I don’t really have any idea what I am doing.

Mostly just don’t buy as much shit. When I do need something find a site that specialises in that. Some I recently used: Brew2Bottle, Heinnie Haynes, SJS Cycles

Share tools with your neighbours. Borrow a carving knife, lend a pitchfork, share the pike that impales billionaires.

I don’t buy any US brands as I get the Aldi version instead.

Looking at the average meat consumption is crazy tbh. We buy less between the 2 of us, even if you include the bone/fat/skin as when I do buy it I get the cheapest cuts. Got a small cut of pork shoulder for this week, and that is the entire weeks meat, 4 meals from the pork with the other 3 being vegetarian (cheese/honey so not vegan)

I cycle and don’t own a car. I will not be registered or licensed to move around under my own power. Do as much bike maintenance myself as I can.

I even brew my own mead

Tell the coworker so they can book holiday. Tell no one else.

Are patents region specific? Could they just ignore the US market for example.

Ahh that is a shame