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Auto-defrost doubles power consumption, so getting the right freezer might make your whole system less expensive.

Yeah, even if you're "OK with it", it's not a good idea. Anyway, my family likes frozen corn better than the canned variety.

My buddy's father decided that skinning a deer is too hard and decided to pull it off with a tractor. I've heard "there's more than 1 way to skin a cat" many times but apparently this isn't true for deer if you're using a 35 HP tractor and pole-barn rafters. Instead of sticking to the usual...

Come to think of it, how fast you cook bacon probably doesn't matter. I usually render pork fat slowly but the cracklins get super crunchy.

I've been cooking bacon in the oven on jellyroll pans. Sure, it's still relatively high temperatures (350 oF) but nothing like a stovetop.

I've never heard of this. Do you have a source? I've read that there is some danger to the stovetop itself. If you took a stove apart, you would see that there really is nothing more than a sheet of glass-like material. The burners are spring-loaded against the top. The model I looked in...

I have my mill on the island in the kitchen. It's sort-of in the way. I think the garage may be a better place for it. Especially if you're going to motorize it. The mill itself is fairly noisy just because of the physics of shattering wheat berries.

In the freezer? Doesn't the chemistry slow down in cold temperatures? I've been told that double-wraping things and evacuating air pockets helps prevent freezer damage. Maybe one factor is the fats going rancid... Of course, there's always the ice chemistry that happens when the temperature...

Looks awesome. And for 1000 $ it better be! Can you rig up a V-belt drive? Some philosophy and commentary from the peanut gallery: Grinding your own grain simply can't be easy AND fast. There's a certain amount of energy that it takes to crack wheat and there's no way around that. If...

The bit about the sawdust is interesting. My grandfather had a latrine on a little island in Canada and he had us using 1/4 C or so of lime on-the-spot, followed by enough pine straw so you couldn't see the toilet tissue. Hadn't thought of wood, though. Why fresh? Is that just what's...

It's all about regulations. Start talking someone in that department early. The Great Stink in London was caused partially by the flushing toilet (and other factors, including drought). So don't think that you need 3-5 gal of water just to poop :) There are a variety of dry systems that...

I'm interested in this conversion you mentioned. How does one convert a 4-stroke gas engine to propane? Is there a kit or something?

Here's my paranoid checklist: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14wS-zItl1wG-da03xQ8OMEo3lt77DmQFxQVAv-YZTWE/edit?usp=sharing Also, I read about the frequency of botulism infections in the USA. Turns out that there are vanishingly few cases and many of them are not even food...

You have an example that is missing pretty much every detail that would render your story credible. And even if it's true, it's a single anecdote. Data is multiple measurements, recorded on a permanent medium. That's the minimum. And for something like this, you'd have to prove to everyone...

Yes, I know what you mean about feel. There are huge differences even between commercial bottled waters and various wells. BTW, an emulsifier is usually an aliphatic molecule, not a pH. pH is just the number of H+ ions in solution. It's measured in log units because people like positive...

I was reading in NT the other day and Fallon's recommendation is mineral water. For whatever that's worth. Personally, I find that I like the taste of our well water, which is moderately hard. I even take it to work in order to avoid the heavily chlorinated city water. The issue of pH is...

I just put up an electric fence, with a strand at 1', 3', and 6'. I used the 12-mile fencer form Farm & Fleet. I put it up after they got about half of my beets and carrots. Since then, no problems. Oh, I put bits of wire and aluminum foil on the wires. Someone told me that the deer would...

Yeah, sounds fishy. Does anyone even know what an ion is? BTW, you can't control your pH. Your body controls its own pH because otherwise you would die. Even if your deoderant is "pH balanced for women", the cells/tissues/organs/systems take care of it. OK, I'll stop now before I turn...

You can make a still with a pressure canner and some misc plumbing. For example: http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Lab-Qualty-Distillation-Apparatus/ If you have an electric stove, that would be better than gas. Expect it to take 4-6 hours for the first time. After various...

5 pt venison. Cleaning out the freezer for 1/4 beef. Found a whole box of canned beans that had mold in them. They all had tattler lids. I've lost vacuum on a few other jars but not a whole batch. I think that batch was one of the first time I used tattler lids so I may not have tightened...