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Gatorade
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Quick Question about LC
#5435489 - 03/23/06 06:45 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I have read a bunch about the LC tek and have even done it before. But after recently doing a few more I noticed something that I thought might be an issue.
I used the Karo tek, 4% Karo and 96% Water, or at least pretty close to that.
I used a quart jar and filled it up to the 400ml mark on the side and then filled it with around 16 mls of the Karo. I pressure cooked for 30 minutes.
-One quick side note, people say that PCing this causes the sugar to caramelize and turn brown, but I didn't notice this in the slightest. I have done 25 minutes before with no color change, and now with the 30 minutes of PCing, still no color change.
Anyways, so I filled up the jar to 400mls. After I have taken the jar out of the PC, the water level was almost 200ml lower then before. Thats nearly half the amount. I haven't seen people speak of this. This is a concern because if half the water is now boiled out, then the Karo ratio is now doubled, around 8%. That is if the Karo did not escape along with the water.
I thought that perhaps I should have waited until the PC was completely cooled before opening it. The way I have done it was by removing it from heat, and opening the valve to blow off the extra pressure. Once the pressure fell I opened the PC complete and removed the jar.
I have done this once before a few weeks back with mixed success. The LC grew for a week but was pretty slow, then just stalled. Didn't know what was up with that and threw it out after 2 weeks, the second of which showed no change.
This time I used 3 quarter pint jars and the quart jar mentioned above. So if one fails I'd have three more that may work. Interesting thing is that not all the jars lost the same ratio of water, some loosing a quarter, some loosing almost half. Even when PCed together. Strange eh? I thought this might be because of how well mixed the Karo was in each, the more mixed, the higher the boiling point, and the less that should be boil out.
I did 3 quarter pint jars two days ago and innocced them, all show some sign of growth, albeit small. Even one that lost 50% of its water is doing as it should. I have yet to inocc the quart jar, but probably will unless someone tells me not too... with good cause.
So now that I have given you my life story in regards to LC, any feedback is welcome. I have a bunch of syringes and I plan on doing more, so any suggests would be cool.
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stelthvue
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Re: Quick Question about LC [Re: Gatorade]
#5435499 - 03/23/06 06:48 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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did you have foil over the jars when they were pced?
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Gatorade
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Re: Quick Question about LC [Re: stelthvue]
#5435553 - 03/23/06 07:00 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Of course, but there is no way foil would create an air tight seal. I doubt that it is expected to do so.
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stelthvue
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Re: Quick Question about LC [Re: Gatorade]
#5435582 - 03/23/06 07:05 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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its not. i just dont see how it could lose half of the liquid.
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Gatorade
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Re: Quick Question about LC [Re: stelthvue]
#5438034 - 03/24/06 11:50 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I decided to change this up a bit and wait to inject the spores. I am going to start this one over.
I think if I were to lower the heat after the PC starts to whistle, to the point where it just rocks, then maybe less liquid will be lost.
Also I will go ahead and let the PC cool down before opening it, so steam doesn't come out.
I'll let you all know how it turns out.
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Jaeger
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Re: Quick Question about LC *DELETED* [Re: Gatorade]
#5438071 - 03/24/06 12:03 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Gatorade
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Re: Quick Question about LC [Re: Jaeger]
#5438266 - 03/24/06 01:02 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Awesome, thats what I wanted to hear.
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