What's on your mind today?

[xSilverPhinx]

... it's a decomposition by-product of the uric acid that the bacteria produce as the cheese ripens.

You mean ... bugs piss in it?

The first thought that comes to mind. 

[Siz]

All of this talk of how to let your runny cheese ripen while trying to skirt the ammonia zone reminds me of one of my favorite blog series: "Steve, Don't Eat It!".

Mmmm, infected corn!
Reminds me of a Chinese fella I once saw on TV telling us how good their local delicacy was: some kind of egg, pickled in something or other, left to rot in the dirt and eaten, black and flaking a year later. Then, when shown a good Roquefort (soft blue cheese) was disgusted at eating cultivated mould. I guess its just what we're brought up with. I bet Git likes a bit of potted meat, eh?!

[Tank]

Ammonia? Seriously? ???

Yuck.

It will only develop ammonia if allowed to. They need to ripen gradually - too fast and no flavour will develop, too slow and ammonia kicks in before flavour (18 degC for a couple of days is about right). It'll keep OK in the fridge for another couple of days before being spoiled, just needs to be brought back to room temp over at least an hour. Supermarket cheese is bought for its shelf-life and is hard to ripen. They rarely develop flavour before ammonia.

Interesting.

[Amicale]

All of this talk of how to let your runny cheese ripen while trying to skirt the ammonia zone reminds me of one of my favorite blog series: "Steve, Don't Eat It!".

That's pretty funny.  If I'm ever tempted to eat "potted meat", I like to think that I would be smart enough to save a step and just throw it directly into the toliet.

ROFL  That'd be potted meat, indeed!

[Buddy]

So, brother moved into his new apartment today. Mom just received a call from him freaking out saying that he found a human finger buried in his basement. Not yet confirmed if it is real of not.

[Tank]

So, brother moved into his new apartment today. Mom just received a call from him freaking out saying that he found a human finger buried in his basement. Not yet confirmed if it is real of not.

Why was HE digging in the basement!!!! 

[Buddy]

So, brother moved into his new apartment today. Mom just received a call from him freaking out saying that he found a human finger buried in his basement. Not yet confirmed if it is real of not.

Why was HE digging in the basement!!!! 

I don't know, but lucky for him it turned out to just be a mannequin hand buried in the dirt. Now the question is why was there a fake hand in his house.

[Firebird]

So, brother moved into his new apartment today. Mom just received a call from him freaking out saying that he found a human finger buried in his basement. Not yet confirmed if it is real of not.

Why was HE digging in the basement!!!! 

I don't know, but lucky for him it turned out to just be a mannequin hand buried in the dirt. Now the question is why was there a fake hand in his house.

That's pretty damn funny. Maybe not to him now

[Ali]

So, brother moved into his new apartment today. Mom just received a call from him freaking out saying that he found a human finger buried in his basement. Not yet confirmed if it is real of not.

Why was HE digging in the basement!!!! 

I don't know, but lucky for him it turned out to just be a mannequin hand buried in the dirt. Now the question is why was there a fake hand in his house.

*Snort*  That's hilarious.  And I second the question of why he was digging in the basement in the first place.   

[Buddy]

*Snort*  That's hilarious.  And I second the question of why he was digging in the basement in the first place.   

He wasn't digging, he was just moving his extra things down there for storage. Or at least that's what he told me. 

[OldGit]

Just tell him not to dig any deeper. 

[The Magic Pudding]

I don't know, but lucky for him it turned out to just be a mannequin hand buried in the dirt.

I hope it isn't Gawen's, haven't seen him about for a while.

[Ali]

12 killed and over 50 injured at a local theater during the midnight showing of the new Batman movie.  Some psycho just opened fire in there.  Aurora is a suburb of Denver.

[The Magic Pudding]

12 killed and over 50 injured at a local theater during the midnight showing of the new Batman movie.  Some psycho just opened fire in there.  Aurora is a suburb of Denver.

Ye I heard that, I don't suppose it will change anything though.
People shouldn't die so cheap, they weren't even part of a school that pushed someone over the edge.
Couldn't you guys change the right to bear arms to a right to do Lego.  Lego is cool and hardly ever fatal.

[Tank]

12 killed and over 50 injured at a local theater during the midnight showing of the new Batman movie.  Some psycho just opened fire in there.  Aurora is a suburb of Denver.

My son chooses this week of all weeks to go to Denver! He's fine.