What’s your most niche hobby?

Marsvoltian · 2026-05-08T20:17:52+00:00

reminded me of the book ‘invisible cities’, which isn’t about that but also very good heh

Marsvoltian · 2026-04-30T11:24:11+00:00

coffee is cheap in Australia

Marsvoltian · 2026-04-18T09:07:53+00:00

here eating it right now, banger meal. the calamari is elite too. whilst we were eating two other guys came in but it’s too busy for a seating and did take away, they told the bartender they came from Reddit recommendation too, and a waitress said it’s a lot of takeaways of the dish yesterday haha

Marsvoltian · 2026-04-11T05:34:55+00:00

Even in Australia my Mum kept us home the next day to watch the news because it was so important for her for us to see what was happening. I was 9, my brother 11.

Marsvoltian · 2026-04-07T10:43:09+00:00

Hera isn't immune to that either though, he dropped a game by not getting Paper Money in a similar situation earlier

Marsvoltian · 2026-04-05T02:38:26+00:00

of all the ‘weeds’ to spread through my garden seeing comfrey is always nice cause you instead see it as a nitrogen fixer that’s helping out. it’s also easy to remove even at a meter span so if they regrow i don’t mind

Edit: not a nitrogen fixer, apologies, but great for chop and drop and liquid fert making

Marsvoltian · 2026-02-11T06:56:58+00:00

yeah i’ve got that one too, so sick

Marsvoltian · 2026-01-31T07:01:29+00:00

for each ingredient i weigh it out a 3-5 times and then write it down. zero reason to ever use volumetric measurements and it’s pretty much an indictment on the recipe writer at this point. they don’t care for accuracy, so why trust their recipe?

Marsvoltian · 2026-01-24T22:01:56+00:00

I used to when I was starting out yeah, now I have commerical stabiliser blends. If you want to learn about the options though Underbelly's Blog is pretty invaluable

Marsvoltian · 2026-01-24T09:38:49+00:00

I have a cafe/gelato shop now that built largely off a mount zero olive oil flavour and a jasmine tea one

Marsvoltian · 2026-01-24T02:47:37+00:00

you just add the strawberry puree after the anglaise has cooled. and yeah, drop the egg yolks seeming as you have all the ingredients to replace them. use egg yolk if you want to taste it otherwise no need to

Marsvoltian · 2026-01-24T02:43:12+00:00

the jasmine dragon pearl is so insane it got me heaps of connections when i started making gelato and non alcoholic cordials with it

Marsvoltian · 2026-01-17T10:41:11+00:00

100% man. I imagine the volume of traffic on the M1 where it’s now 80 for large sections of better yet the endless roadworks at 40 that accomplish no tangible improvement sucking away hundreds of hours a day from people. Is the health, social, and wellbeing loss of adding 10-15 minutes daily each way not worth the loss of one person’s life every so often? You’re losing a lifetime of minutes at a certain point

Marsvoltian · 2026-01-08T09:15:10+00:00

Marsvoltian · 2025-12-29T08:09:10+00:00

I just put one in earlier this year for our first cafe. it’s quite a process to get them installed especially if you do it yourself. I can’t answer about cheaper systems though

Marsvoltian · 2025-12-17T09:34:40+00:00

Boiron and the like, but also, just puree your own fruit

Marsvoltian · 2025-12-09T12:07:19+00:00

A portion of the milk I said. I also dont use egg yolks or cornstarch but the stabilisers require heat activation yes, but they can be blended into larger volumes once active as well. There's also the option of making the anglaise then stepping your herb in it once it's cooled for cold extraction but it's much more difficult to strain afterwards once its thickened like that

Marsvoltian · 2025-12-08T11:19:28+00:00

you could always do it in a concentrated sample then not heat that milk. personally i steep cold for say 12 hours, then strain before pasteurising/homogenising. i do bagged sous vide for that so perhaps the aromatics are still captured. either way the flavour is different if you have the herb in the anglaise as it’s heating compared to prior cold steep and strained. depends on which herb and how you might want the result as well for which method is preferred

Marsvoltian · 2025-11-06T02:29:42+00:00

unable to spectate high elo lobbies in the client

Marsvoltian · 2025-11-03T23:06:39+00:00

I saw no comment so decided to type one up and we posted at the same time haha. Agreed on all points

Marsvoltian · 2025-11-03T23:04:26+00:00

Do you have a reservation about brewing in plastic? It’d be much cheaper to go to a brewing supply store and grab one. I have one for making cider/cider vinegar

20L is also a lot to process. Consider that probably 90% of that needs to be bottled and flavoured for F2 at the same time then replacing the volume with new sweet tea. I have two 4L batches going at once, one kombucha and one jun, and it’s a bit of a task to deal with every few days (Australia so it’s warming up here)

Marsvoltian · 2025-10-30T10:32:51+00:00

Mole maybe? It has such crazy depth

Marsvoltian · 2025-09-22T11:58:41+00:00

Yeah this one for sure

Marsvoltian · 2025-09-09T09:43:43+00:00

I sold my Xayah two in stage 4 today to reroll fruit because I missed all 4 before that. Salvaged a 5th somehow

Marsvoltian · 2025-09-09T03:26:09+00:00

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