stock report

So, the chicken stock has been simmering in there with a cut-up onion overnight.

Not sure what to do next, or whether it's worth my while to sacrifice those baby carrots that are sort of on their last leg.

stockventure 3

I threw in the baby carrots about an hour ago. And now they're swimming around.

Seriously, they're bobbing to the surface and then sinking again, and there's a couple that are nipping at the surface like goldfish for a few seconds, and then start moving again. It's the craziest thing. There must be a lot of convection going on in that pot.

I also threw in an undisclosed quantity of kosher salt, because, hey, kosher salt. Was that wise?

I also still have no idea what I'm doing this afternoon.

stockventure 4: boss level

Funny how sometimes YouTube delivers where BitTorrent fails. According to AB, I've made two fatal errors:

1. Didn't start with cold water -- tamtrible told me to add the chicken while the water was still cold, too, but I brought the water to a boil first. So I might have aborted the whole thing right there.
2. Didn't think ahead about how I was going to refrigerate all this. I don't have a cooler. In fact, I don't really have the gear in place to even filter this stuff properly.

So right now I've got a pot of hot brown liquid that ultimately needs to be disposed of. Or maybe before I throw it out, I'll put some of it in the rice cooker and just see what happens when I cook rice in it. I don't know.

I suppose I could chance it that the QuikTrip across the street still has some styrofoam coolers and bags of ice for me to use.

stockventure 4a

At the QuikTrip, $7.01 will buy you a cooler that is too small for my second-largest pot, and a bag of indestructible ice. Since the cooler was too small, I ladled what I could into a few ziploc bags, and put the bags in with the ice. I also liberated the ice from its plastic bag, figuring it should be given the chance to melt and create some water to help convection along.

I'll check on it in an hour.

I was by no means exhaustive with my filtering, but I don't see any solids. And I also was not very exhaustive in my collection. This was just a practice, anyway.

I still don't really know what I'm going to do with it. My cooking habits have been stockless for so long.

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Oh, wait, I remember now.

The entire professional sports industry is just a way of tricking people into wathing hours and hours of commercials.

For jewelers like Kay, reverse-jewelers like Cash4Gold, for sugar water and watery beer, and for boner pills.

I don't care if I have money on the game, I think I'll play some Wii.

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