After reading this instructable I was very excited because I’ve recently started drinking a lot of seltzer water and I felt silly paying for something so simple. I collected parts from eBay and some online distributors as follows:
- 15lbs. CO2 tank (eBay, $80 shipped)
- Regulator (BeverageFactory.com, $45)
- Carbonator cap (MoreBeer.com, $15)
- Tubing and adapters (hardware store, $5)
- Filled CO2 tank (Robert’s Oxygen, $25)
It’s a pretty simple arrangement, in the end. Just hook the regulator up to the tank along with the tubing to the carbonator cap, adjust the pressure to 50PSI and then fizzy up a bottle of cold water.
While reading the Wikipeidia page on adhesive I came across this nugget of wisdom on food decomposition:
Another example is when someone tries to pull apart Oreo cookies and all the filling remains on one side. The goal in this case is an adhesive failure, rather than a cohesive failure.
Apparently, when you’re trying to break apart an Oreo and get all the filling to stay on one side, say, to make a quad-stuf (yep, only one ‘f’) Oreo, you are hoping for an adhesive or interfacial failure, that is, a failure of the adhesive (white, corn-syrupy goodness) where it meets the adherent (black cookie piece).
Also, for another barely-related angle is this page from a UFC forum discussing the caloric content of foods someone mentions their method of making Oreos less bad for you:
i just want everyone to know this lil diet trick i use to cut calories out of my double stuff oreos, if you take 2 of them apart and make 1 quad stuff oreo you eliminate 2 of the chocholat cookies there for cutting out calories while you enjoy a nice diet quad stuff oreo
Though I’d say the perfect ratio of filling to cookie is somewhere between 2 and 3 to one, I often make quad-stuf monsters.
Smoking food is great; the only downside is that if you want it ready for an afternoon barbecue, you have to get up early to put the meat to the heat. Alton Brown’s recipe for pulled pork is what I use; it simply consists of brining a pork shoulder overnight and then smoking with a simple rub. If you’ve got the smoker running, you might as well toss on other stuff as well.
Generally the commercials shown on TV are targeted at the viewers of the channel or show in question. Can anyone explain why I see UFC ads on FoodTV? Is there really much overlap in their viewing demographics?
After reading this instructable I was very excited because I’ve recently started drinking a lot of seltzer water and I felt silly paying for something so simple. I collected parts from eBay and some online distributors as follows:
