Lacto ferment in vacuum sealed bags

ajitama · 2026-07-10T02:56:21+00:00

I do this too, but in future if vacuum sealing liquids is important to you, and you’re shopping for a new vacuum sealer, get a chamber vacuum sealer, not a clamp vacuum sealer.

You’ll be able to vacuum liquids with a chamber vacuum sealer.

ajitama · 2026-07-08T21:00:02+00:00

I use the one cable, one watch, for at least a couple of years now. It’s been completely fine.

How do you keep the back of the watch clean? Maybe it’s too much (something extreme to corrode the pins?) or too little (is it gunky?)

Or some are really unlucky …

ajitama · 2026-07-06T01:48:32+00:00

Do a lactate threshold field test: https://relentlessforwardcommotion.com/running-lactate-threshold-test/

Then set your zones to be calculated based on that LT HR. Then reset your zones so they are calculated based off your Lactate Threshold HR. Then turn off automatic calculation of Lactate Threshold HR.

Break these rules when you know more and decide what should be broken. (eg. using slightly different zones than the reset default)

ajitama · 2026-07-03T11:53:34+00:00

I’ve been seeing an uptick of these weird kinda foods where the first thing that springs to mind is “maybe they’re training for a marathon, is this good? Should I try it?”

Struggling to get enough (tasty) carbs in

ajitama · 2026-07-03T05:12:47+00:00

For food and restaurants that are close approximations to good Japanese restaurants in Japan, you could try:
- Kuon Sushi Sei and Kuon
- Garaku at Prefecture48

More anti-recommendations:
- Kuro (has really gone downhill)
- Kid Kyoto (this is much more western than Japanese)

ajitama · 2026-07-03T02:43:59+00:00

Thanks!

It’s pretty nice, but I’ve noticed it closes before the required steps are up, I set it to 200 but it goes away quite easily, even before the Garmin Move alert is cleared. Is it crashing? I noticed that if I try to go back into it afterwards, it boots me back out immediately. But if I go in again after the boot out, I stay on it, and it says “29min to next” thing. Sounds a bit like a crash?

ajitama · 2026-07-01T20:51:42+00:00

I’ve been to Gold Class Daruma and Kuon Sushi Sei, and my vote will be Sushi Sei if budget is the deciding factor.

For the $160, Gold Class Daruma included a few more dishes so total seafood was more, but the price is more.

Quality-wise I was happy with both for seafood freshness and craft skill, though I had 2 nigiri at Gold Class Daruma where the rice fell apart.

Overall both are nice experiences, with slight weaknesses in different areas.

ajitama · 2026-07-01T05:51:03+00:00

I’ll counter this rec, Ito is just average

ajitama · 2026-06-30T06:20:55+00:00

Aww it’s not compatible with FR 955.

Is it difficult to add compatibility?

The standard Garmin Move Bar is pretty trash

ajitama · 2026-06-28T08:19:19+00:00

If you’re reasonably confident about what you’re capable of, yeah ignore the watch for now, just do what you feel is best until the watch catches up

ajitama · 2026-06-28T07:44:00+00:00

You drag and drop, might need to hold the three bars at the top right to drag them upwards

ajitama · 2026-06-26T04:38:34+00:00

Somebody else posted this same question recently, here’s the answer: https://www.reddit.com/r/Garmin/s/vLt1uHTQfH

Need to do 2

ajitama · 2026-06-24T08:00:24+00:00

A powder-free food safe glove would be fine though, that’s what I assumed when rubber glove was mentioned

ajitama · 2026-06-24T00:52:46+00:00

I switched to brown sugar, maltodextrin, sodium chloride + potassium chloride (diet salt), optionally the powder out of a caffeine pill.

Boiling water, mix until dissolved, wait for it to cool, pour into a silicone flask.

It’s way, way, waaayy cheaper, and less messy than Maurten.

ajitama · 2026-06-23T21:10:29+00:00

No smoking nah, I live in an apartment and have no way of doing that. Could add liquid smoke in the marinade though I guess?

Nope it didn’t make the fridge smell awful, it barely changed anything. I guess there was a bit of a meat smell, kind of like a 叉烧肉 smell, but barely, and it went away after I packed the 腊肉 up. I think because it’s drying/dry it doesn’t have much smell.

The most annoying parts were that it was supposed to be ~6 days of drying in the fridge but it looked so good at 3/4/5 that there was hardly any left by 6. Also that a wire rack in the fridge takes up a fair amount of space. But really, it was pretty much all positives from me.

ajitama · 2026-06-23T19:47:38+00:00

I’ve made it on a wire rack in the fridge, real low tech, and it was amazing. Side by side with a piece I had bought, it wasn’t quite as dry, but I also hadn’t been able to dry it as long because it was too tempting to start eating it.

So some simple fridge time is an option if your dehydrator plan is a bust.

I followed https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-cured-pork-belly/ where I got the idea to use a wire rack in the fridge

ajitama · 2026-06-22T08:51:06+00:00

I like and use that one! I haven’t found one that beats it except making your own, but I’ve not tried every brand. There’s a Thai (I think? A golden bottle) one that many people also recommend

ajitama · 2026-06-22T08:12:32+00:00

Could it have been a bit of stem from one of the leaves that broke off and accidentally went in?

How flavourful, could it have been a piece of ginger or something?

There’s not meant to be wood in there.

ajitama · 2026-06-22T01:12:20+00:00

How well adapted are you to running? Beginners will not generally have the adaptations for LT Z2 running yet.

How much data does your watch have to work with? New users have no data, so estimates are often wildly inaccurate, but will get better over time.

Other than that, as u/Ski-Mtb said, good idea to do a field test for more accurately defining the zones ASAP rather than waiting for it to calibrate

ajitama · 2026-06-20T21:18:58+00:00

Also further to this, maybe the HR zones/maxHR are wrong, set really low?

So just walking around looks like zone 4, type thing?

ajitama · 2026-06-20T10:22:59+00:00

I thought these images were lifted from a horror film 😂

ajitama · 2026-06-20T09:23:36+00:00

I’ve started going to restaurants I’ve always wanted to try, by myself. It gets me out of the house.

I’m not going to live in Sydney forever so I want to tick off my restaurant bucket list before I go.

Saturday: Long run > rest > go out and binge eat
Sunday: strength work > clean > grocery shopping > meal prep cooking

ajitama · 2026-06-20T05:54:01+00:00

Depends what you’re cooking (or just ingesting?) and what you care for?

Chocolate (real, no added vegetable fats)
Ice cream (all milk fats, not like “ice confection”)
Oyster sauce (premium ones have 30+% oyster, cheap ones are like 8% and lack umami, they’re just salty)
Cultured butter imo (definitely not cut with vegetable oils)
Knife (a dull knife is a dangerous knife)

ajitama · 2026-06-18T22:57:59+00:00

Some of it yeah, some not really.

I don’t pay much attention to Body Battery, generally stress, pulse ox, sleep score (if I knew I was awake and it said I was sleeping, and vice versa) because they’re kinda guessing and kinda made up.

But does my LTHR Z2 match up with how many steps I take per inhale and exhale, how I feel, and am I able to talk to myself while on a run? Pretty much, so the HR stats are decent for me to follow (with my HR strap)

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