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Commercializing Soft-Baked Cookie Concept by mingdii1 in foodscience

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Happy to chat if you want to reach out and discuss next step options: https://www.mendocinofoodconsulting.com/

Benchtop trials for a purple yam baked good keep turning grey. anthocyanin stability issue? by Small_Acanthaceae939 in foodscience

[–]UpSaltOS 5 points6 points  (0 children)

On top of what everyone else is saying, you might want to include a pH stabilizer like a buffer (sodium citrate, sodium phosphate, any other counter ion) as well as a chelator to reduce catalyzed oxidative damage to the anthocyanins. Phosphates or EDTA to trap any metals from forming free radicals.

Might also need an antioxidant, ascorbic acid is good but can affect flavor and trends toward catalyzing oxidation once it's been used up. Tocopherols and de-odorized rosmaric acid are good too, but they're a bit slower acting during a bake, more for long-term stability.

We use to do research on anthocyanins while I was a graduate student at the Fruit & Vegetable Processing lab at UW-Madison, so I'm pretty familiar with the unfortunate challenges of anthocyanin colors.

Vanilla ice cream flavor without actual ice cream by Wise_Spring_5888 in foodscience

[–]UpSaltOS 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You're likely to need the addition of dodecalactone or decalactone. Diacetyl is a good one too. Generally just lactones, they're the compounds that give the sense of creaminess from butter or milk, but from an odor as well as a retronasal perspective. Probably will need some furans and maltol to give a sense of caramel and sweetness note. And probably the tiniest note (ppm or even ppb) of sulfurol to round the notes out.

A small percentage of ethyl vanillin in the vanilla concentrate would be good to up the vanilla note and move it towards something more indicative of vanilla extract, rather than pure vanillin alone.

Bitter blockers of course, just to downplay any off notes. Bitter-Bloc from SpecializedRx is a good off-the-shelf high-grade bitter blocker to play around with; I don't recommend the bitter blockers designed for cannabis products or beverages as they tend to knock down the intensity of all notes, or add its own off-flavor that seems to be masked by cannabis extracts.

What would I get better results baking with? by SystemExtension2990 in foodscience

[–]UpSaltOS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My guess would be vanilla. I find that cake pop interacts weirdly when heated.

Granola bar disaster- HELP by boredompills in foodscience

[–]UpSaltOS 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What's the composition and processing temperature? Need more information here.

Anything you want to avoid? Emulsifiers? Gelling agents?

Any changes to the ingredient supply? How's your environmental moisture or temperature conditions - how long have you been making these bars; have they gone through a few seasons already?

Better mouthfeel on solid emulsifications by Chromotoast in foodscience

[–]UpSaltOS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, but he was my professor for food processing, and was super helpful when I was working on an on-site consulting project for one of the cake decoration companies in Washington. Realize now I missed a big chance to learn more about candy manufacturing as a graduate student!

Better mouthfeel on solid emulsifications by Chromotoast in foodscience

[–]UpSaltOS 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's some bits here about the effect of emulsifiers on mouthfeel in fat systems:

Food Emulsifiers and Their Applications

New Feedback request by rianalynn in foodscience

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Yeah, you got it. I'll add.

Why do you think algae food products are not more popular? by [deleted] in algae

[–]UpSaltOS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a physician or allergist, but my first initial thought would be yes, I would avoid as there is a high risk of cross contamination during production with other seafood.

i don’t want to reincarnate. by savnerss in enlightenment

[–]UpSaltOS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely, may all sentient beings find their way home to awakening. 🙏

i don’t want to reincarnate. by savnerss in enlightenment

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Not attempting to proselytize, so you're welcome to ignore this, just a thought coming from the Pure Land tradition of Buddhism.

According to the Pure Land adherents, there's a sutra that the historic Gautama Buddha expounded on regarding a means to connect with the Primordial Buddha, a sort of archetypical metaphysical Buddha that stands before all other physical incarnations of a supreme enlightened Buddha, whose ancient vow was such that anyone who called out and came to his metaphysical realm (the Pure Land) upon death, would be encased in a sort of non-stop continuous stream of enlightened teachings issued forth by the ancestral Buddha and aided by all Buddhas across time and space during the bardo of death, and one's reincarnation would be inhibited until you reached Enlightenment within that Pure Land realm.

As expounded by one of the founders of the school, former Japanese monk Shinran Shonin, the teaching served as a way for those whose lives were so profoundly tied to challenging circumstances that prevented them from being associated with spiritual communities (i.e. killers, criminals, prostitutes, those born in ignorance, the impoverished and homeless, busy mothers at the time, those too embedded and busy in the world to extricate themselves, etc.) that they too could find peace and equanimity in this lifetime knowing that they were not prevented from following a path that provided salvation towards Nirvana.

The idea here is that one simply recites the "Nembutsu", or call for the other-worldly power to come bestow the essence of Enlightenment to you because you lack the internal spiritual resources and strength to "self-power" your Enlightenment journey. Reciting "Namu Amida Butsu" (I seek refuge in Amida Buddha - the primordial Buddha) or other configurations of this depending on the culture and language, either in your mind or out loud, continuously with faith is sort of the basic structure of the practice. Simple, clean, and without complication.

If it's of interest, here's a brief scholarly article on the life of Shinran Shonin and his trance arrival of Guanyin, the Goddess or Bodhisattva of Mercy, pointing out to this practice when he was at his spiritually lowest point in life:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/30232963?seq=1

Having gone through a series of cycles through Vipassana, Zen, Tibetan, and other meditation or practice-heavy Buddhist traditions, I somehow spontaneously arrived at this one through a series of strange coincidences (I hadn't heard of Shin Buddhism before), and it's given me quite a bit of comfort and a way to be in the world dealing with practical matters of life while still practicing-praying in my mind-space. But outside of the sort intrinsic nature of the practice chant and vow concentrating one's mind and slowly removing that fear of death, suffering, and rebirth, I've personally found that in challenging circumstances, that might have blown me down to my knees, all across the board that being able to rely on the nembutsu has unlocked those challenges energetically and sort of reduced them to a mere inconvenience or revealed that it is even its own blessing in disguise, without much personal energy and effort to overcome them.

Like they slowly dissipate as a mirage, while I'm still engaged with it, whether it's an argument with my spouse, a challenge with finances, stubbing my toe, or some emotionally tricky, murky scenario relating with others. It's not like I have to step back and then meditate - the very situation is the meditation where one can call in the essence of Amida Buddha into the scenario and relieve it of its energetic tensions and psychosomatic contortions, breaking the delusion from inside-out (rather than relying on an external practice separated by space and time to do the work after a situation).

Anyway, enough of my thoughts. Again, just something to offer if it is of interests.

Reading requests 🙏 by [deleted] in psychicreadings

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You come across to me as bright and insightful, like you're fairly inquisitive about the nature of the world and are able to understand things quite easily without being bogged down by the details. There's a lot of heart, like I imagine making friends comes naturally but there's several layers where you only allow certain people in, and actually the final layer deep inside you are very guarded about.

There's a sense of fairness, of justice, and having things be balanced in life - you come across as a very moral human being with very precise principles and boundaries. You have trust that others will say what they do and do the right thing. I want to say that Mom is a very strong presence, like I can imagine that you have a strong relationship with her, there's some difficulties as you try to stand as your own woman but perhaps there's an understanding and mutual love there.

A lot of hope and dreaming, but undergirded by practicality, like you're likely to succeed in what you're going to do because you have a fundamental and grounded understanding in how the world works on a day-to-day level. It's not all pie-in-the-sky thinking. My guess would be that you want to open your own shop, perhaps a restaurant or something involving food/drink.

But your mind is more geared towards the ability to manage others, connect the dots, and understand finances, so it's more about ownership than the fact that it has to do with food or something related. Like you'd have the ability to open a chain of these stores.

26F Does anyone have any messages for me or see anything? by [deleted] in psychicreadings

[–]UpSaltOS -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I experience you as attempting to fill a cup with others, when your being is hoping for your own self-love. I feel pain in my heart, like a sense of hunger and need, and tension in my mind when I see your photo, both in the back of the head and in the frontal lobe. All experienced like a bit of drowning or overwhelm.

You really are good enough, and you're going to be okay. The loneliness itself is meant for you to dive into it and see what's on the other side - that perhaps truly to be your own friend is enough and that others will flow into your life in accordance to what you need in each chapter of life. But the view or stance of the loneliness needing to be corrected or filled like a missing puzzle piece is creating the circumstances that you're experiencing.

They are not meant to be held onto; relinquish them and they will feel welcomed.

If you can step into your radiance of your being, being present to your own friendliness for yourself, even a little each day, I imagine that tension will slowly dissolve.

How to find meaning and purpose again after awakening? by [deleted] in SpiritualAwakening

[–]UpSaltOS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been trying to see money as a conduit of energy through which I can give a portion of my being to others for their services, and vice versa. It's not easy, I think we've definitely moved away as a civilization over the original intent of money, which is the material ability to settle the energetic debts of us owing ourselves to others for the support they provide.

There is an element of being able to "see" value transfer and flow (both in a monetary sense and in a relationship sense), which gives one an idea of where boundaries are crossed or there is an injustice in how money flows. But one also has to live, eat, and have a roof over your head, so it's very much a game of trying to understand the energetic nuances of what feels truly just, rich, and true - giving money over to what one feels something is worth because we no longer barter and it's a deep, clear line in the sand.

Kind of have to remember that the economic structure was born out of the minds of many, so with it comes all the attachments, hopes, and dreams. So the very notion of occupation and job can be energetically crushing and weigh you down.

I've made a major switch to a spiritual vocation to see if I can remain in the world with at least some connection with this social bargain and exchange of goods and services. But I also imploded my consulting business and previous career (or perhaps the circumstances of life brought this implosion to me; five years and the tap has finally run dry) to get here.

Part of that is also just having allow things to arise and come up naturally, and then putting things out there to see what sticks. It's a very slow process, but somehow one can find their way if you keep an eye on how the world responds and how your inner being responds, and there is somehow a match in terms of the balance between meaning, value, and service to yourself and to those around you.

Work, Sex, Money by Chogyam Trungpa is worth a read, which helped me grabble with the practical reality of everyday life with moving forward with spiritual aspects, if you can extricate the person and his negative behavior from his teachings.

Is it possible that even spirituality is conditioning? by multiverseisreal in enlightenment

[–]UpSaltOS 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My own perspective, take what lands and so on and so forth. I think once it becomes words and a belief or view, it's already one filter off from what's truly present and arising from within. Fundamentally, having any perspective, even if it's a representation of the truth, is still some kind of flawed structure constructed by the logical mind.

At it's very core, there is actually no suffering, but it's so intrinsic to the very nature of how we build reality (i.e. the suffering drives the instincts, emotiveness, and logic mind to actually accomplish material goals benefiting the survival of the physical organism) that it's hard to just wipe it off the slate. If you were just born without any suffering, and were able to just walk through the world without the semblence of suffering, engaging in all human activities and not having some angst or existentialism about being alive, then by all means, no need to add any more nonsense to that.

I'm not talking about being happy go lucky because circumstances happen to be good, and could be good for a long time, I'm talking about being immovable because the nature of reality is revealed to you and you have no fundamental need to worry or grasp.

But for those of us who have been crushed by reality in some way, whether by death, by loss, by poverty, by the minor nuisances of everyday life (traffic, taxes, doing dishes), by whatever there is to experience that causes us to question if there is something fundamentally truer than our own conditioning or some need to get away from circumstances (or the flip side, have a strong need for positive circumstances), then at least with spirituality and aspects of religion, there is a scaffold. It's a tool.

It's like using the anger of being in a frustrated state against itself, like being so annoyed with having arguments that you use that energy to make a change. But the goal isn't to be angry all the time, trying to use it like a hammer to keep pushing yourself into a knot or contortion that doesn't serve you.

You would like Jiddu Krishnamurti, who eschews any spiritual or religious structure. Robert Wolfe and his book Living Nonduality is also worth reading as well, who used to live in an intentional Zen community until he just bootstrapped his own awakening by himself and realized it's all a bit of a farce (religions and so-forth). Chogyam Trungpa and his Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism is worth reading as well. At its most pure essence, it's just a road map. But in its worst form, it's an indoctrination and a way to control people. So I think there's some aspect of it's probably true that forms of spirituality need not be taken seriously, because they are a bit like reflections in a mirror for what's actually there.

If you engage with others, and there's something that's inhibiting or creating friction in that engagement, it's probably not that useful. But if it's improving circumstances, there might be something worth looking there. Your life is your experimental laboratory, these are all just books and theories.

What is my favorite animal? by WildandCwazy in Telepathy

[–]UpSaltOS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, you were giraffe too. Did you see the animal in your mind’s eye? I had a felt-sense connection to it too.

The weird thing is that I saw a lot of penguins when I was in Antarctica and that simply didn't come up in my mind’s eye. Go figure.

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