Food Additives...
Oct. 28th, 2012 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeshyrI'm just watching a BBC documentary about food additives - it's really interesting actually.
The presenter has just made bacon with potassium nitrate concocted from horse manure, wood ash, and piss... and he ate it. I am thoroughly impressed with the guy's constitution and also strangely don't feel like eating any dinner just now...
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He also turned some of it into gunpowder and blew it up, which was quite cool.
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I did not know you needed so MUCH salt to salt meat.... wow!
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Oh wow now he's eating Spam. That's MUCH worse than piss-cured bacon ... eww!!
The presenter has just made bacon with potassium nitrate concocted from horse manure, wood ash, and piss... and he ate it. I am thoroughly impressed with the guy's constitution and also strangely don't feel like eating any dinner just now...
r
PS
He also turned some of it into gunpowder and blew it up, which was quite cool.
PPS
I did not know you needed so MUCH salt to salt meat.... wow!
PPPS
Oh wow now he's eating Spam. That's MUCH worse than piss-cured bacon ... eww!!
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Date: 2012-11-15 09:02 pm (UTC)(i also used to have a marvelous book about the science of food, but it got destroyed (along with all my good cookbooks) by seawater as a consequence of Superstorm Sandy. i'm going to replace all those books, but it may take a while.)