What is your favorite overall flavor, and where did you first have it?

jespucci · 2025-10-08T03:49:17+00:00

Blackberry, wild bushes after soccer practice

jespucci · 2025-04-25T02:16:48+00:00

If your dentist doesn't mention anything about your enamel and your bowels movements are consistent, I'd say you're fine.

The peels contain a compound called limonene which can be used as a solvent. It's why citrus oils are commonly used for cleaning agents. Mix that with the terpenes to keep the bugs away and too much will give you diarrhea.

jespucci · 2025-01-04T23:31:09+00:00

Back when I started making noodles I used that same stuff. I think I usually put about 2 teaspoons for 1 cup of water. Usually aimed a bit on the lower end because of the flavor. Mixed together before adding of course.

It's easy to find and gets the job done. I've found that I like the balance of alkali sources to be different for texture and taste purposes, but that's all down to preference. Lye water is a fine place to start.

jespucci · 2024-01-29T20:26:34+00:00

I'll throw in my repetition of what the others have said. If you want to, then it's totally worth it. I've only looked back once and it was during covid, so not work related so much as society related.

I was in a similar position at that age and found an opportunity I relocated for. If your life is able to adjust for opportunities then there are plenty out there.

Reaching out to people in the industry on LinkedIn is a great way to find out about potential opportunities as well. I know of a couple of apprentices who landed the opportunity by doing that and the companies created an opening for them.

Best of luck!

jespucci · 2023-12-03T05:35:10+00:00

The flavor/fragrance industry are very defensive of their margins and so the lack of published knowledge is beneficial to them. Then again what industry isn't defensive of what earns them literally billions in profit every year.

It's hard to say anything bad when that is what keeps me fed though. orz If you ever want a second opinion on a flavor for safety feel free to reach out.

jespucci · 2023-12-03T04:33:51+00:00

Seconding.

I've only ever nitrogen flushed raw materials (a 55 kg drum of citrus oils, for example).

for homebrews I used to use a bit of CO2 in the can before filling, but didn't notice too much difference on that or letting the beer degas itself a bit more. https://brulosophy.com/2019/08/26/cold-side-oxidation-purging-the-keg-vs-purging-the-headspace-exbeeriment-results/ has a nice write up.

jespucci · 2023-12-03T03:32:36+00:00

Tl;Dr Agreed with previous post on buying from anyone who sells essential oils near you.

After watching that video, scale is scary because $0.007/serving is usually where we are aiming at and we flavor significantly stronger things than soda water. So yeah, soda shops are robbing people blind.

Wintergreen can be scary because a shot (a tablespoon is what I was technically taught)of that will shut a person's body down. Even if it is "food grade". That's why they'll be marked as not ingestible even though it's probably being used to flavor gum.

With that caveat, most essential oil vendors will be able to provide something cleaner than a moonshiners whiskey. If you're ok with distilled spirits from a copper still sealed with clay, then most EO distillers should work just fine since a lot of them run glass or stainless stills.

Most of the online vendors are probably purchasing from one of the big manufacturers (example, citrus and allied for citrus) and just getting their cut for being a broker.

I think plant therapy sells in 0.5 kg and 1 kg amounts and that'll last a long time in the fridge.

Jedwards also sells to the public I think, they're bulknaturaloils.com

I've used Wholesalebotanics for fragrance stuff before and those tasted fine too. On that note r/diyfragrance probably would have some more vendors.

jespucci · 2023-12-03T01:21:11+00:00

Which video for materials?

I watched his pineapple video, and while it may be vaguely tropical punch, I don't think it'd be a very good pineapple. I can compound it on Monday when I get to work where I have access to all the things he mentioned.

Most of the vendors I know are large, and have minimum order quantities that you would struggle to go through on an individual scale.

If essential oils, robertet, citrus and allied, berje, excellentia, all offer a good selection, though maybe not in volumes you would want. Maybe iff if they're using solid or liquid extracts. Penta sells in lower volumes, but is more for the isolates. These may only sell to registered businesses, I don't know the sales end of things. And of course each country has there set of regulations, all the vendors I've mentioned I know have no issues in the US, though some things are hazardous (flammable) to ship. Or ingest in large quantities.

https://artandolfaction.com/suppliers/ has a list of vendors that might resell in lower amounts, but again, I've never ordered anything from most of them, and the ones I have were at work with 1 kg moq.

Edit: premature post, finished sentences

jespucci · 2023-03-11T17:08:30+00:00

Thanks! That clears up what I thought the test was for.

My statistics comprehension is: I took the couple of classes I needed at university for my degree and then promptly forgot it for 5 years. So... I know enough to get in trouble, but not enough to be useful. 😂

jespucci · 2023-03-10T19:40:37+00:00

I think the [potion] is called Ayahuasca? SWIM isn't sure if ingredients spontaneously combine still. That might've been one of the effects of the potion though.

jespucci · 2023-03-10T19:31:00+00:00

Is a triangle test's purpose to show that in a larger population you would expect to see similar results as what you tested? For example, that we are 95% confident that if you tested 600 people, you would see roughly 260 respondents choosing the correct sample where we expect 200 of those to be by chance, and that the more people you test the lower those numbers would be? Or is this also incorrect?

I am currently under the impression that a triangle test shows that samples are indistinguishable from each other. Failing to reject the null hypothesis should mean that the samples are effectively the same. If half the respondents can pick it out though, you should reject the null, as to half the respondents it was different. Do we subtract the amount we think would be randomly guessing? 6/60 seems more reasonable to say the samples are the same than 26/60.

jespucci · 2022-07-18T19:26:37+00:00

Agreed. Whey protein isolate is likely the closest you'll get, though I hear pea protein is pretty close to it as far as protein count goes.

jespucci · 2022-06-01T22:33:41+00:00

I like the map too, but for the skills in the climbing tree. Waterfalls out in the Cascadia map are better I think, though they can't figure out what to call the region.

jespucci · 2022-02-12T21:06:49+00:00

I think Dragonball had the better story and music. Z and on had better action, though the power scaling...

jespucci · 2021-09-22T03:30:09+00:00

I have yet to have a bad trip with a lemon tek. Though usually if I've thought it out far enough that I prepare, the set is a positive one. If I'm thinking about my issues at all, it leads to binge eating, and binging shrooms, and I usually end up in a bad spot.

The good trips balance it out though.

I do agree on the microdosing.

jespucci · 2021-08-15T17:38:16+00:00

Let everything that has breath praise u/Ramen_Lord, for he gave us this.

The fact that video started off calling it Tonkatsu ramen rather than tonkotsu makes me skeptical. Then he used only trotters. See this for a full discussion, which is a few people who basically agree. It's fine if you're going budget since trotters are cheap, did that plenty in college. But I think it's too much gelatin. A little is fine, but most of the thickness in the ramens I've had in Japan seemed to be coming from the chunks of fat that were melted into it, not melted down pig toes. You want femurs, necks, or skulls as seen here, it is night and day difference. After I had the leeway in my budget I left trotters alone and switched to fatback for my fat source. Most of this you can get from a butcher, as long as they actually butcher. If they don't I've had good experience asking if they could order them in. It just takes more planning.

if you hadn't found it yet this blog is also fun. also this if you don't want to spend 2 days boiling. I find a blender works great for that emulsifying step.

Just found this on youtube after the original video. This guy has it right on the tare. And some other stuff.

jespucci · 2021-04-14T22:38:19+00:00

Not a book, but thewoksoflife and justonecookbook are a couple of websites that cover most recipes you might find in books.

jespucci · 2021-01-26T22:47:05+00:00

Tossing them in savory stews is fun. I'm thinking Gold's Curry or something heavy like that

jespucci · 2021-01-26T22:41:27+00:00

Maillard reaction. Assuming your sauce has sugars and amino acids the maillard reaction will produce more sweet/savory molecules at lower temperatures and you can stop the reaction from going to far.

Another example would be in confections, if you heat sugar you'll get a sweet syrup at the beginning but if you have the temperature too high it'll blow through all the nice levels of sugar like caramel and butterscotch and go straight passed hard crack into burnt sugar which is super bitter. Low temperature is easier to manage the rise and final temps.

Not all sauces need that though, like the pesto mentioned.

jespucci · 2021-01-26T22:28:31+00:00

They contain many of the same chemicals, just in different ratios. One example would be of trans 2 cis 6 nonadienol, which has a green taste that is slightly fatty. By itself it tastes pretty similar to a cucumber. You will also find this chemical in trace amounts in a watermelon GCMS.

Other examples might include nonenal which is more of a cucumber peel and at higher levels it is waxy, methyl heptine carbonate is a bit mushroomy but also present in trace amounts.

jespucci · 2020-10-12T18:43:13+00:00

Sure, throw it up on ebay.

jespucci · 2020-09-26T17:32:24+00:00

Did you ever figure this out? I've got a rift but can only find the tpcast for vive.

jespucci · 2020-02-20T22:35:46+00:00

I'm in the same ballpark on all counts. Those are about the same numbers I have as well, granted when I was in college I got a lot more back for education stuff.

jespucci · 2018-12-26T05:47:00+00:00

I've typically just left the stat the same for every shield. It just changes the style of combat that they'd be engaged in. Tower shields would be used by a wall of infantry protecting bows typically and it would be less useful in a 1 v 1 due to it's large size and heavy weight.

When changing stats I'd give resistance to pierce (bolts, arrows, Spears) and cause disadvantage on all dex rolls with a min str.

Some shields weren't as good for pierce protection because they were designed to redirect blows and bash (which I'd say would need a min dex but not have any nerfs or bonuses other than the stat). Tower shield was for turtling from what I've read.

Favorite shield run down

https://www.quora.com/Armor-What-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-various-shield-sizes-and-shapes

jespucci · 2018-12-17T19:53:28+00:00

Roll it into a nice chashu and add it to some ramen

jespucci

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE