Sharpe

19 hours ago, WeednFeed said:

WARNING YOU MUST DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH FOLLOW PROPER CLEANING AND CANNING RECIPES FROM ACCREDITED PUBLICATIONS BACTERIA IN FOOD PREPARATION CAN KILL YOU! 

Hello everyone made 2 batches of cinnamon apple Jelly using THE NATURAL PECTIN IN THE APPLES! Managed to get 24 bottles. It was a lot of work.

I washed and cut up over 20 pounds of MacIntosh apples.

Removed the stems, blossom ends and any blemishes or apple scab.

The apples were cut in quarters or more with larger apples. You must leave all the skin, seeds and cores to be boiled.

Add enough water to about 3/4 of the height of the apples, meaning don’t cover the apples with water.

Once the apples start boiling turn them down to a medium boil. This is where I add the cinnamon, you can use a cinnamon stick, I use a heaping tablespoon per 10 pound pot. Apples are VERY HIGH in natural pectin, too high of a temperature will destroy the pectin at this stage. The pectin is mostly in the skin area. The apples will turn into apple sauce you should also mash the apples if required. Apple juice is what the jelly is made of. 

Once the apples are fully dissolved make a 4 layer cheese cloth bag to drain/strain the apples into a clean container or pot. You can let the bag drain overnight but I find any juice gained more than 4 hours is minimal. DO NOT SQUEEZE THE the cheese cloth trying to squeak out more juice. This will cause fines in the jelly making it cloudy.

Once you have collected all the juice it is time to get serious. All your mason jars and lids should be washed with hot soapy water and rinsed and put in the oven at over 220 degrees F. The lids must be prepared as per the lid manufacturer. You will need to WATER BATH THE MASON JARS after the jars are filled. AGAIN DO YOUR RESEARCH, USE AN ACCREDITED SOURCE like a canning company or extension office. Prep you water bath canner with the appropriate amount of water and raise the temperature to at least 190 Degrees F.

Accurately measure your juice by the cup. For every cup of juice you will use 1 cup of granulated sugar. If you have 10 cups of juice use 10 cups of sugar, 15 cups of juice use 15 cups of sugar and soon. You will also add 1 tablespoon of bottled lemon juice per 3 cups of juice. This will raise the acid content of the juice. Bring the juice and lemon juice to a slight boil then stir in the sugar, keep stirring until all the sugar is dissolved. Adjust heat to suite. You want the combined juice, sugar and lemon juice to be in a rolling boil. Watch very closely the your jelly will likely start to FOAM up add a tablespoon of real butter this will stop the foaming. I now just put the butter in before it foams. Putting the butter in early just saves the pot from foam over the top making a mess. You want the contents to be a constant rolling boil.

The MOST important is the temperature of the jelly. You will not achieve jelly until the mixture achieves a temperature of 220 degrees F this is the point we’re juice becomes jelly. This is why there is no set times for making/boiling jelly WITH NATURAL PECTIN it’s all about the relationship between juice, sugar, natural pectin and water. Once you have sneaker boiled off the other ingredients come together to make jelly. I use 2 thermometers to check my temperature. You will also see the jelly forming on the spoon you are stirring the pot with as the temperature nears 220. You can also increase the temperature by a few degrees as this will make the jelly a little stiffer and that won’t hurt. If you do not have a proper thermometer you can also use the cold plate method, sheet method. This method is all over the net and can be found on YouTube. 

Now that we have our jelly at the correct temperature and your bottles have been sterilized sitting in the oven at 220 the lids and rings are prepared as per the manufacturer. It is time to get bottling. The importance of having the sterilized bottles hot is not only to kill organisms but you can’t pour 220 degree jelly in a cold jar it might break. Keeping the water in the water bath hot is the same idea plus it allows the water bath to boil quicker. 

Fill each jar with jelly leaving a 1/4 to 1/2 inch headspace, wipe the rim of the bottle to remove any spillage that may prevent a proper seal.  Cover with the lid and ring FINGER TIP TIGHT don’t over tighten the lids if you over tighten the bottle might not draw a vacuum. Immediately transfer the filled bottle to the water bath. Fill all the jars and place in the water bath there must be at least a full inch of water over all the bottles. You must water bath at a full boil for a minimum of 5 minutes. Remove the bottles set on a dishcloth away from drafts for 12-24 hours to let cool. If you’ve done it correctly the bottles should seal within minutes of removing them from the water bath.
AGAIN YOU MUST PRACTICE GOOD HYGIENE AND PROPER CANNING AS PER ACCREDITED SOURCES.

Good luck, I/we find it very rewarding to create our own preserves. I hope you do too.

Wayne

 

 

You don't deserve it

Congrats

2 hours ago, PimpedOutPete said:

Yoshi, please don’t listen to this. I work in healthcare and you are a fellow Canadian, look and see what is happening in my province of Alberta.

Tonight my phone went off with an Amber Alert.  The province announced a provincial state of emergency. Now as you know I live in a very conservative province and a government resistant to covid precautions. We now have 1600 cases daily and a province emergency of no ICU beds and a medical staff shortage. I work in healthcare and all our vacation time has been revoked and we are now in 24 hour call.

Like yourself I don’t wish to debate this for I only wish to give you honest information, it’s not news articles or media data that could be twisted to fit some narrative. This is first hand information I live with.  Your area does not want to go through what we are.

I am so sorry you had to lose your positions and I commend your strength to your convictions, but as a healthcare provider, it’s about saving lives and trying to keep people safe. Regretfully you are a casualty to what is happening.

Please stay safe my friend. 

Please don't listen to what? Did I say something controversial? Note that my statement "As for mutations, vaccines can also drive mutation. I believe the chances are increased when you have high levels of vaccination and high virus prevalence, which is what we have at the moment." was simply a reply to "just hope the next mutation doesn't start with you as patient zero....FFS" which implied that if you get vaccinated you will no be a part of any potential future mutations, this is false. 

From "SAGE 93 minutes: Coronavirus (COVID-19) response, 7 July 2021" https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sage-93-minutes-coronavirus-covid-19-response-7-july-2021/sage-93-minutes-coronavirus-covid-19-response-7-july-2021

"9. There are four major risks associated with high numbers of infections. These are an increase in hospitalisations and deaths, more ‘Long-COVID’; workforce absences (including in the NHS); and the increased risk of new variants emerging. The combination of high prevalence and high levels of vaccination creates the conditions in which an immune escape variant is most likely to emerge. The likelihood of this happening is unknown, but such a variant would present a significant risk both in the UK and internationally."

I believe this is the scenario that Geert Vanden Bossche has been particularly concerned about.

8 hours ago, Deckard said:

Just for shits and giggles.....can you actually give a good reason NOT to get a life saving vax

 

Inquiring minds want to know....

 

 

 

Wake Up , Time To Die

"Life saving" is relative. Are we talking about a 20 year old or an 80 year old? For an 80 year old the risk reward probably makes sense. For a healthy 20 year old, it probably doesn't. It is murkier in between.
 

As for mutations, vaccines can also drive mutation. I believe the chances are increased when you have high levels of vaccination and high virus prevalence, which is what we have at the moment.

Still got my trusty old gtx 650 ti 

17 hours ago, TheLastColdBeer said:

It's a shame, you can question things that defy the obvious, and people will still vehemently defend their programed response. Sometimes the obvious is just that. No healthy, young, career driven person with a family takes their own life. Especially those on the "correct" side of the law. That's for people with no remaining hope for the future. Multiple suicides? Right.......move alone, nothing to see here.

Argument from incredulity, common logical fallacy.

19 minutes ago, Cooper said:

Hey Sharpe, I got your back. Let me know the beeches get’n on you and I’ll “Sooper Cooper” their arses…

luv ya bro…

Took my first video with an external camera last night, not sure how well it's turned out, will try a few more. Difficult to get a good angle.

9 hours ago, DEEJAYKEG said:

As reported on that trustworthy site davidicke.com and others...  Get vaccinated or rest in peace.

I don't make shit up. https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/covid-19-statistical-report/covid-19-statistical-report-23-june-2021/
Under "data files".

25 minutes ago, Giggles said:

Who are u kidding  @Sharpe... Haxor lol . I bitch a lot in game but not what you  think.  I bitch more or less Cuz  I suck at the game and should be able to kill u but I think my barrel is bent. I need to speak with Frenchi and tell him to label his guns so I stop picking them up. Ffs

Lol!. It's pretty obvious when someone is being an asshole and serious vs just a bit of in game fun or heat of the moment. The patterns are completely different. It's funny people like me are supposed to just take endless abuse for years and if we speak up about it or try and get anything done, they will try and label you a cry baby, meanwhile they sit and record hours worth of footage and send it to the admins.

It is something I doubt admins personally think about too much - players are less likely to abuse an admin directly for fear of reprisal, and if they do abuse them, it won't last long.

Members calling other members hackers constantly is a bad look and it's frankly bizarre that this is accepted. These people should be dealt with, warning/warning/kick/1 day ban/7 day ban/remove (cumulative) or something along those lines. Usually it's just endless abuse > eventually defend yourself > both get told to knock it off. Rinse repeat.

 

One gooseneck phone holder en route!

hOw dO yoU keEp geTTing beHind ppL so eaSy, hoW caN yoU ruN sO fAst...durrrrrrrrrrr

Time stamped the video at 20.17 where he runs behind 3 people and kills them all at once lol.

13 minutes ago, Cooper said:

Wonder if I'll get an apology from all the dickheads when I record some vids.
 

 

there are dickheads here? What…?

Nah, clan members calling other clan members hackers and giving constant abuse is completely normal. 

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2 hours ago, Timmah! said:

My Samsung Galaxy S9+ phone and a table clamp phone holder:

Nice, thanks. Didn't realize it was just a regular mobile, didn't realize it would be so cheap to do. Wonder if I'll get an apology from all the dickheads when I record some vids.

@Timmah! What kind of camera do you use to record your screen? What kind of setup do use to hold the camera?

Here's a fun stat. In the first 6 months of vaccination in Scotland, 5522 people died "within 28 days of vaccination". Compare that with 7859 who have died "within 28 days of a positive test" in 16 months from the virus. 

Jesus is this guy going to prison or something, getting some practice in lol?

Try flak jacket 

Congrats

Ban.

3 hours ago, Sammy said:

Well, the acr has been talked about ad nauseam. Surprised to even see the name of it still after all this time. Perhaps some have forgotten, or never listened in the first place. First it was heavily unbalanced and it was a zero-skill noob gun. But of course there will always be people that like and will only use zero-skill noob guns. Also, it had a bad weapon model responsible for constant server crashes. The acr noobs didnt care about crashes so long as they had it. Well, except blaming others for crashes when it was their fault for continuing to use it when asked not to. Pretty lame really. But it is what it is.

So, then came the clan mod. The bad weapon model was gone. Things were properly balanced. In this case the m16 was restored to fill the gap for a 3-shot weapon. But some cried about having to rely on weapons that required skill. Tried to reason with people, wasted my time, and it didnt work. Instead, my goal should have been to just distribute the packages and everyone can go do what they want. If you want your noob gun with an m16 model go ahead. Just figure it out it yourself and any complaints about it were yours to deal with. Up to you to convince people how they were all wrong.

And that is how it is now. Do what you want to the gun settings. Also up to you to explain how and why the different settings you want for yourself are fair to everybody else.

 

edit: Anyways, I apologize to everyone about how this thread got hijacked and will move on.

Why can't you just say your prefer the guns a certain away instead of being a condescending asshole? I had a conversation with another member on this recently. We agreed we could fully accept if there was a majority that wanted less accurate guns and there was a minority that didn't. Nothing I have seen suggests to me this is the case. 

People clearly liked the acr/saritch/smr. In my opinion as I've said countless times before we could have tried to improve some of the other guns to give people more of a choice and bring balance that way. That doesn't mean I want "zero-skill noob guns". ESC recently did this, good group of players. Your own bias has so badly clouded your vision on this you can't seem to see it any other way. Why are you right and the large percentage of us who like these so called "noob guns" wrong. Just because you say so? What makes a gun a "noob gun" or "unbalanced". Who gets to decide?

4 hours ago, Bazza said:

it USED to be 98 jumping to 101 or 103, suddenly in the last couple of months, you see me getting ci's from between 6  and 15 secs or so. its Still about the same ping, just getting interupted all the time,

Really sounds like an fps issue to me. You need to use the command /cg_drawfps 1 in console to be able to view this. If you need help with this let me know. I've had several people with similar issues over the years that needed to turn some stuff way down and it fixed the issue. Not saying it is definitely this but that's what seems likely.

2 hours ago, Bazza said:

I don't think this is your issue. So it's showing you are getting 91ms to the server (mine is 83ms for comparison so not much different). I also get 15 hops with a few lines of ***. What is your in game ping? Does the number mostly stay the same or does it jump around a lot (say from 100 to 120 , up and down constantly?

I still think the most likely culprit is some sort of in game fps issue based upon you saying earlier that other games were ok. Let me know if you want/need some help to test this.

At least we had one of our 5 sunny days of the year today.