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cannabineer

cannabineer

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SSGrower said:
It is not too late, I took a potery class at a community college a few years ago, I am at a 5th grade ceramics level now.:oops:

@cannabineer any insight on rhe chemestry of cake? Is baking soda and vinegar a substitute for baking powder?
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In an exploding soda bottle, yes. Baking powders use bicarb plus a solid acid, typically sodium bitartrate. But vinegar in cake mix, eeww. Maybe a pinch of citric acid?
 
DustyDuke

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Laughing Grass said:
I didn't tell him exactly what was going on until he was here, and not what was growing until we were standing in front of the tent. What I'm doing is perfectly legal and he knew it, but I think he was lowkey mad. He said "you did this?" a couple times in his indoor voice so think he was somewhat impressed at what he was seeing. He drilled new holes in the beams got the bits unstuck that I left behind and ran and tested the water lines so he got over it quickly enough.
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He would of been like this is awesome but I have to keep my Dad face.
My parents were fine with me growing as long as I worked and contributed (Dad used to grow I never saw it). I did hydro when I was 18 he was pretty surprised at how good I grew. To be fair I just brought clones and flowered strait away so was kinda easy.
 
WeedFreak78

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SSGrower said:
It is not too late, I took a potery class at a community college a few years ago, I am at a 5th grade ceramics level now.:oops:

@cannabineer any insight on rhe chemestry of cake? Is baking soda and vinegar a substitute for baking powder?
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Baking powder is a combination of baking soda and cream of tartar, the cream helps activate the soda to get more rise in the dough. IDK the ratios. I've heard using more tartar will get a fluffier cake, but I haven't tried it yet. I would think vinegar would react too quickly with the BS. I've used vinegar and milk as a buttermilk substitute for pancakes and it bubbles up real quick. If it's a thicker batter it might work if it'll hold the bubbles.
 
SSGrower

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DustyDuke said:
This Summer I want to pave part of the back yard, poured the slab this summer just gone and I want build an outdoor kitchen (out of the red bricks I’ve posted). I’d like to do a concrete sink something like this but with square edges the beveled edges are out of my league.View attachment 4351805
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DustyDuke said:
This Summer I want to pave part of the back yard, poured the slab this summer just gone and I want build an outdoor kitchen (out of the red bricks I’ve posted). I’d like to do a concrete sink something like this but with square edges the beveled edges are out of my league.View attachment 4351805
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curious2garden said:
Exactly my faucet LOL, is that yours?
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Common senses of style.
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raratt

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DustyDuke said:
He would of been like this is awesome but I have to keep my Dad face.
My parents were fine with me growing as long as I worked and contributed (Dad used to grow I never saw it). I did hydro when I was 18 he was pretty surprised at how good I grew. To be fair I just brought clones and flowered strait away so was kinda easy.
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My dad found almost an oz of bud in my jacket when a dude I was partying with brought my jacket back and handed it to him. I was in High School at the time. I kinda forgot to grab it out of his car and I was in my room listening to tunes when he came back. My dad freaked and took it to the cops, like they would find out where it came from. Got my ass chewed.
 
SSGrower

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cannabineer said:
In an exploding soda bottle, yes. Baking powders use bicarb plus a solid acid, typically sodium bitartrate. But vinegar in cake mix, eeww. Maybe a pinch of citric acid?
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Check the red velvet cake. The only reasoning I found was for color assistance. What I saw was anywhere from a rsp to a tbsp. I remember dying eggs and mix was vinegar based so that part made sense. But the red velvet used baking soda not baking powder.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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SSGrower said:
Check the red velvet cake. The only reasoning I found was for color assistance. What I saw was anywhere from a rsp to a tbsp. I remember dying eggs and mix was vinegar based so that part made sense. But the red velvet used baking soda not baking powder.
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If it has an acidic ingredient like buttermilk, just baking soda would do. If I had to improvise, citric acid works and has a clean taste ime.
 
curious2garden

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Gary Goodson said:
Instapot would be a good choice. I don’t think smoked/grilled flavor would be best for corned beef.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m from Texas so I love smoked brisket. And if you don’t know me, my brisket is really good.

But when I think of a Reuben, I don’t think smoked brisket. I think corned beef. 2 different things brother.
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When you smoke a corned beef doesn't it magically turn into pastrami? I have a Ninja Foodi I dearly love. One pot carnitas from pressure to broiling in about 30 minutes YUM
 
DustyDuke

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raratt said:
My dad found almost an oz of bud in my jacket when a dude I was partying with brought my jacket back and handed it to him. I was in High School at the time. I kinda forgot to grab it out of his car and I was in my room listening to tunes when he came back. My dad freaked and took it to the cops, like they would find out where it came from. Got my ass chewed.
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Edit: Yeah if I did that in high school would of got an ear full. (Looking after 2 kids fn all my post lol)
WeedFreak78 said:
Baking powder is a combination of baking soda and cream of tartar, the cream helps activate the soda to get more rise in the dough. IDK the ratios. I've heard using more tartar will get a fluffier cake, but I haven't tried it yet. I would think vinegar would react too quickly with the BS. I've used vinegar and milk as a buttermilk substitute for pancakes and it bubbles up real quick. If it's a thicker batter it might work if it'll hold the bubbles.
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Baking Powder
1 part bi-carb to 2 part cream of tartar
Google hooked me up
 
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curious2garden

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SSGrower said:
I have used those but it does no resolve the underlying issues.

The insurance company claims they cannot legally give me a list of what codes are covered by my insurance plan and for what diagnoses. For instance a proceedure may be covered for one diagnoses but not another. There may be coding errors in your bills that you are fully unaware of but affect your out of pocket expenses.

I call bullshit on the legality thing because a few years back (afordable care act still) when I hit my out of pocket maximums and the insurance company was responsible for a larger portion of the bill, they assigned a nurse to me who was more than happy to advise me on what billing codes were covered by my plan.

To evaluate if a purchase has value I must know what is included. I could with all respect, call the customer service line with the entire list of codes and one by one go through and find out which ones are covered and what the allowable billing rate is. But I would not have any access to this information for an insurance plan that I am.not participating in, for instance if I want to change plans I cant really evaluate if the plan is better for me.

The trick here as I see it is to correlate the allowable billing rates for covered proceedures. Then comparing that with what providers are charging (particularly providers who are either out of network or do not participate (they wont bill insurance). This is when the insurance provides for you to be reimbursed for allowable medical sercives when those services are provided by qualified indivuals.

There seems to be a basic conflict with the hippocratic oath when the doctor cannot answer the question how much will this cost me?
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Ask to speak to the physician's billing office. They can cover all this and interface with your insurer to see what is and isn't covered for you. Have them do a spreadsheet for you and sign it. Then if something isn't covered they eat it.
 
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