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[Bauglir]

Of course, it all depends on how long you let the mead ferment. The bottle I once bought had gone straight through to dryness, and it was not very pleasant. It tasted like soap and burning. Then again, no self-respecting barbarian would be able to wait that much longer after it had already gotten alcoholic and delicious, so that's probably not the issue.

[Caz]

I'm not an expert, but in a lot of pre-medieval societies, farming was men's work and the women were relegated to housework, hence the term housewife. Beekeeping would have been a man's job.

This is generally a myth. Outside of nobility, both genders were needed to do farm work, especially at harvest time.

[Avis-Mergulus]

I just realized I can make hot chocolate with actual chocolate. Like, grate (or break up) half a bar of dark chocolate into a cup, ad a teaspoon of cocoa and just a bit of milk, put the cup into a pot of water (to prevent the heat from fucking up your cup), heat it up and stir it. Heat some more milk in a separate cup, then mix everything together and stir again. Hot chocolate.

I shit upon the gods, it's actual hot chocolate.

Speaking of mead, it doesn't necessarily have to be sweet. I've tried some rather bitter dark mead made from buckwheat honey, it was pretty good, if a bit dry.

[Helgoland]

Hot chocolate from a bain marie? Fancy~

[Avis-Mergulus]

Hot chocolate from a bain marie? Fancy~

That's what it's called, eh? I had no idea and was too lazy to check. But yeah, it's pretty fancy-like. Simply using a metal cup might have been more efficient, though, but I don't have one.

[Sheb]

Mmmmh, I wonder if I could use the lab's hot water bath to do my chocolate.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

And here I thought alchohol tasted bad in general lol

[scrdest]

And here I thought alchohol tasted bad in general lol

Pure alcohol doesn't taste much like anything, unless you count 'liquid burning' as a flavor, pretty much any alcohol is flavored. Eugh, that reminds me of a HORRIBLE wine I drank at my friend's place last week, it tasted like somewhat sweet nothing. Water probably tasted more like grapes, fermented or not, than that crap.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Mmmmh, I wonder if I could use the lab's hot water bath to do my chocolate.

In theory, you almost certainly can. I mean, I only know about this method (of heating stuff) from my Applied Chemistry courses. I could have figured it out by myself, of course, but still.
In practice, it's a serious breach of lab safety rules, and a proper lab supervisor will have you shot.

And here I thought alchohol tasted bad in general lol

That may be a personal preference thing, but I think different kinds of alcohol taste very, very different. There's not really a specific "alcohol taste" to hate, and even if there was, plenty of alcoholic drincs wouldn't taste like it.

[Sheb]

Yeah, exactly. But there is so much cool cooking you could do with lab equipment. And you're not a biologist until you wondered what milliQ water and agarose gels tasted like.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Yeah, exactly. But there is so much cool cooking you could do with lab equipment. And you're not a biologist until you wondered what milliQ water and agarose gels tasted like.

I would guess milliQ tastes like pretty much nothing? Of course, can't know until you check.
I probably have less experience with lab work than you, but I remember wandering what colloidal sulphur tastes like. I quench it with water, then I think "It's cool now, I wonder if it's okay if I just gargle it..?"

And that, fellow kids, is how I got barred from the lab.

[Sheb]

Sulfur? That's weird. I guess we have slightly different experiences, you being a chemist and me a biologist. More edible stuff in my lab, mostly.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Sulfur? That's weird. I guess we have slightly different experiences, you being a chemist and me a biologist. More edible stuff in my lab, mostly.

Oh, everything's edible at least once. About the sulfur, I just had two very different concepts of how it would taste - I thought it would either taste like pine resin (for some reason), or like earwax (the Russian phrase for "earwax" literally translates to "ear sulfur"). It's wasn't a rational thing, just morbid curiosity induced by a wholly imagined dichotomy thingy.
Another similar thought that I had is whether one could crush a chunk of potassium in one's hand, whether it would burn the skin due to residual moisture, plus certain culinary/gastronomical associations due to it looking like cat food while submerged in a jar of oil.

I guess that's why they kept it in a bullet-proof safe.

[penguinofhonor]

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[Sirus]

I apologize. Of course, now that I'm getting hungry, I really wish I had grabbed one of those potato spirals...

It's funny, before I realized what mead actually is, I always imagined it being something sour or bitter. Something... manly? I mean, it's what vikings and such used to drink, right? It turns out that it's basically alcoholic candy. Seriously. It's girlier than peppermint schnapps. I... I have so much less respect for all those warriors in old stories now. They were like, "I have returned from the battle and I demand a cup of hot sugary sweetness laced with alcohol!"

"Girly" drinks are about I can handle
I wonder how hard it would be to find mead around here...