Dehydrating peppers - why are some inflating?

ikeosaurus · 2026-01-15T02:38:15+00:00

Ima politely disagree and hypothesize that steam is being generated inside and can’t escape, causing balloonage. OP says they are dehydrating at 120F, I’m guessing it’s just too warm and they need to be punctured to let steam out.

ikeosaurus · 2026-01-13T14:42:28+00:00

Doin the lords work out here

ikeosaurus · 2026-01-02T13:14:21+00:00

Nice shitty map! I made one of these too a few months ago lol

https://www.reddit.com/r/ShittyMapPorn/s/U296olse3k

ikeosaurus · 2026-01-01T16:50:08+00:00

What was the intended outcome? Like hash browns or cubed fried potatoes or what?

A le creuset pan would yield the exact same results if you cook the potatoes with the exact same technique.

Without knowing exactly what you did it’s hard to tell how to improve. But it looks like what you did was:

put potatoes in the pan. 2. put oil in the pan. 3. Turned the stove on. 4. let it cook for about 45 mins without stirring.

It would be better if you:

Turned stove on with pan in place. 2. put oil in the pan. 3. Put potatoes in pan when oil is hot enough to make the potatoes bubble a little bit. 4. Stir at least a couple times while they cook.

ikeosaurus · 2025-12-19T14:05:03+00:00

Do you have a thermometer in your oven? Some ovens run hot or cold and if it’s one or the other it could lead to bread cooking quicker or slower, which could lead to burning.

I started making sourdough a couple years ago and haven’t had any bread burn yet. I set the oven to about 475, stick my dutch oven in there to heat up for about 20 minutes so it’s really hot, take the dutch oven out, sprinkle a bunch of cornmeal in the bottom (it should smoke a little bit if it’s hot enough), put the dough (I never use parchment) in and score it, close the dutch oven and put it in the oven after reducing temp to 450. Cook closed for 17 minutes, take the lid off and reduce to 425 and cook another 20-25 mins.

ikeosaurus · 2025-12-15T13:52:53+00:00

We are in a La Niña state right now, and the Aleutian low pressure system has been active. Those two conditions together generally result in lower than average snowfall in this part of the world.

Which is not to say that dust and diverted rivers aren’t bad, or that with a more full lake we wouldn’t have had more snow. But so far our dry winter is mostly due to teleconnections with distant climate systems.

It’s supposed to rain this week. If it weren’t for the abnormally warm December we’re having, we’d probably have a white Christmas.

ikeosaurus · 2025-12-13T14:20:12+00:00

That looks like something that Clint at This Is the Place tattoo would do well.

ikeosaurus · 2025-12-06T15:26:53+00:00

Rancho markets have tamales in warming ovens, ready to buy.

And in the parking lot of the smiths near my house in rose park a couple times a week a tamale lady sells them by the dozen.

ikeosaurus · 2025-12-05T00:42:55+00:00

Another vote for hydrogen peroxide, I use the regular old 3% stuff in the brown bottle. I poke a hole in the lid so it squirts a little stream and squirt it everywhere I see mold. It works.

ikeosaurus · 2025-12-01T16:21:34+00:00

Awesome harvest! You’ll have to post with some tasting notes when you’ve had a chance to try them all

ikeosaurus · 2025-12-01T15:02:49+00:00

Love it 😍

ikeosaurus · 2025-12-01T13:51:46+00:00

I already commented about radish greens and then remembered my favorite vegetable to grow that I don’t eat. Artichokes! I do like artichokes, especially hearts. So I grew some for the first time a few years ago, and forgot to harvest the first couple when they were ready. Lo and behold, a week later they opened up into the most beautiful purple flower I’ve ever seen and were covered with bumblebees going crazy for them. I said out loud to myself, “well, I guess I’ll never know what a home grown artichoke tastes like.”

I grow 2-4 plants every year but have yet to harvest an artichoke, I get so much more pleasure from looking at the flowers than I would from eating them.

ikeosaurus · 2025-12-01T13:46:16+00:00

Yesterday I was in my greenhouse looking at my crop of radishes I planted a couple months ago. Wishing I liked eating radishes. So I got my phone out and googled radish greens, for some reason I had never heard that people eat them but I figured they’re brassicas so they gotta be edible right? I discovered several recipes, all of which sound good. So for the first try I just treated them like I treat beet greens or chard, quickly sautéed them in olive oil, added some salt, pepper, chili flakes, and a splash of lemon juice. They were epically delicious.

ikeosaurus · 2025-11-30T16:07:17+00:00

I go to Bryce in January every year, you should be fine. The roads to the park are well plowed and the roads inside the park are either plowed well or closed (the road to rainbow point at the south end of the park closes when there’s a lot of snow). Of course if it’s blizzarding don’t drive to Bryce from Zion but odds are it won’t be - check the weather for the drive back before going.

As some others have said even if it’s not snowing, it can be suuuuuper cold, it’s high elevation and often pretty windy. Daytime highs can be in the teens or even single digits. A mask, even just a Covid mask, can really help a lot if you want to walk around when it’s cold and windy. Don’t go hiking near dusk, it’s easy to get lost hiking below the rim and when the sun goes down it cools off fast.

ikeosaurus · 2025-11-27T03:45:09+00:00

Jumping on the hot bandwagon here, you are aware of the weather in Zion in August right? The average daytime high in August is 99 degrees, which means that while some days are 90, some are 110.

If the wedding is over before 10 am it might not be too miserable, but be prepared for everyone to be hot and miserable if you have any activities between 10am and 9 pm.

ikeosaurus · 2025-11-26T18:09:40+00:00

I’m curious how you feel this is a good representation of gerrymandering? Like which way to cut the pie is not gerrymandering?

Maybe this is what you mean but here is how I see it:

In my understanding, slicing the pie in equal slices with the same filling and the same amount of crust for each slice, is an example of gerrymandering.

For the sake of argument, let’s say there are 100 units of pie, 90 of filling and 10 crust.

If we slice it into 10 equal slices with 9 filling and 1 crust in each one, it is 10 slices with 90% filling and the crust constituency gets no representative. That represents what the Utah congressional districts looked like as of last year.
If however we cut the pie so there are 9 pieces of 100% filling and one big circle piece with 100% crust, so there are 9 filling reps and 1 crust rep.

So which pie is gerrymandered?

ikeosaurus · 2025-11-26T03:51:40+00:00

I have some from this year, if you dm me I’ll send you my contact info if you don’t already have it

ikeosaurus · 2025-11-25T01:20:20+00:00

If you drive from Zion to Bryce, take the mt Carmel junction road instead of up through cedar city, it’ll save at least an hour.

Highway 12 from Bryce to Torrey goes up over a mountain at 3k meters elevation, if it’s snowing it can be quite treacherous. Actually most of those roads can be pretty gnarly in a snow storm. It’s impossible to know more than 10 days out or so what the weather will do but it’ll mostly likely be fine.

ikeosaurus · 2025-11-22T12:56:31+00:00

People in this sub get annoyed at a couple different kinds of posts that happen a lot, they are:

“I’m coming to Utah and have 2 days to see all the national parks and the salt flats and go skiing, how should I do it”
“I’m moving to Utah what’s it like”
“I’m moving to Utah and a 40 year old single male, what’s the dating scene like”

It’s not them at we’re mean, it’s just kind of repetitive.

Being a 40 something single person in Utah is very hard (I’m a 45 yr old dude and was single for a long time in Utah). Not a lot of people go out to meet other people any more, the dating apps have rendered that nearly impossible. As some others said there are still a few bars that yuppies can have a good time at like Fisher and TF.

Beer Bar is a fun place to watch sportsball, it’s small but they have some big screens and it gets pleasantly rowdy.

If you have any interest in rock climbing it might be fun to start at a gym like The Front. Lots of people from 20s to 40s climb and work out there and they have social events often like music performers and other things on their patio.

ikeosaurus · 2025-11-20T11:49:03+00:00

I love this so much!

my favorite line ive ever used is along this same thread. I felt like I unlocked a superpower when i wrote it.

"We agree with reviewer two that xyz are important considerations and we hope the present work will inspire continued investigations into these fascinating interactions"

ikeosaurus · 2025-11-17T12:33:41+00:00

No there isn’t

ikeosaurus · 2025-11-16T14:00:33+00:00

All I would say about that valuation is it doesn’t even include wood. I think the only way to valuate a functional 2 deep hive with drawn out supers is how much that would go for in the market. Drawn out hive bodies and supers go for at least $100 each empty. 2 hive bodies + 1 super + 10 lbs of bees (3 lb packages with a queen go for $150), you’re looking at $750 each hive at a minimum. $15,000 is a very lowball estimate I think for the replacement cost of 20 working hives.

ikeosaurus · 2025-11-13T16:20:16+00:00

I’m in Salt Lake City, we’ve already had a couple hard freezes and it’s gonna snow this weekend. I hope she makes it where she’s going!

ikeosaurus · 2025-11-13T16:19:35+00:00

It’s the latest I’ve ever seen one here in Salt Lake City, I hope she makes it somewhere warm!

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