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Message 1404268 - Posted: 17 Aug 2013, 11:18:10 UTC - in response to Message 1404263.  

Bread proofer

No, not for bread or dough

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Message 1404325 - Posted: 17 Aug 2013, 16:25:16 UTC
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Not for cooking, not a steamer.
Electrical and fluid connections.

Hmmmmm. At first glance, I thought it was a coating table, such as they use in the deli at the Mini-Mart down the street. Bins for milk or beaten eggs, and a large center bin for seasoned flour or breadcrumbs. Used to prep chicken or fish for the deep fryer. But that one has no electrical or fluid connections, not even a drain.
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Message 1404358 - Posted: 17 Aug 2013, 18:02:46 UTC - in response to Message 1404325.  

Not for cooking, not a steamer.
Electrical and fluid connections.

Hmmmmm. At first glance, I thought it was a coating table, such as they use in the deli at the Mini-Mart down the street. Bins for milk or beaten eggs, and a large center bin for seasoned flour or breadcrumbs. Used to prep chicken or fish for the deep fryer. But that one has no electrical or fluid connections, not even a drain.

Electricity and water are vital to the use of this gadget.


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Message 1404359 - Posted: 17 Aug 2013, 18:04:50 UTC

Is it humane?

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Message 1404362 - Posted: 17 Aug 2013, 18:10:43 UTC - in response to Message 1404359.  

Is it humane?

Claims to be

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Message 1404371 - Posted: 17 Aug 2013, 18:15:41 UTC

ice maker?
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Message 1404380 - Posted: 17 Aug 2013, 18:18:37 UTC - in response to Message 1404371.  

ice maker?

No. Salt is also required. Salty ice would be yuk.


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Message 1404384 - Posted: 17 Aug 2013, 18:22:15 UTC

For live food?

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Message 1404390 - Posted: 17 Aug 2013, 18:28:18 UTC - in response to Message 1404380.  

ice maker?

No. Salt is also required. Salty ice would be yuk.

Well, an ice cream maker would need salt, but not a water connection...

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Message 1404408 - Posted: 17 Aug 2013, 19:12:21 UTC - in response to Message 1404380.  

ice maker?

No. Salt is also required. Salty ice would be yuk.

Just so you know in future, salty water was used in the process of making ice cream before modern refrigeration. quote from the Guardian.

How was ice-cream made before refrigerators were invented?

THERE IS a good summary in The National Trust Book of Sorbets, Flummeries and Fools by Colin Cooper English (published 1985). Time-consuming and costly, the old-fashioned way was to place the ingredients into a thin drum, which was then sunk into a larger container which held a mixture of ice and salt. Although water freezes at 32F (0C), milk and cream will not freeze until they are down to 20F (-6.7C). The salt melts the ice and produces a brine with a temperature around 17F (-8.3C), and it is this freezing brine which provides the refrigeration.
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Message 1404412 - Posted: 17 Aug 2013, 19:51:52 UTC - in response to Message 1404408.  

ice maker?

No. Salt is also required. Salty ice would be yuk.

Just so you know in future, salty water was used in the process of making ice cream before modern refrigeration. quote from the Guardian.

How was ice-cream made before refrigerators were invented?

THERE IS a good summary in The National Trust Book of Sorbets, Flummeries and Fools by Colin Cooper English (published 1985). Time-consuming and costly, the old-fashioned way was to place the ingredients into a thin drum, which was then sunk into a larger container which held a mixture of ice and salt. Although water freezes at 32F (0C), milk and cream will not freeze until they are down to 20F (-6.7C). The salt melts the ice and produces a brine with a temperature around 17F (-8.3C), and it is this freezing brine which provides the refrigeration.

Interesting. For the gadget in question, it wouldn't work without salt.


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Message 1404418 - Posted: 17 Aug 2013, 20:03:11 UTC - in response to Message 1404412.  

Interesting. For the gadget in question, it wouldn't work without salt.

So no fresh water exoskeletons?

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Message 1404424 - Posted: 17 Aug 2013, 20:24:27 UTC - in response to Message 1404418.  

Interesting. For the gadget in question, it wouldn't work without salt.

So no fresh water exoskeletons?

It's to do with the electricity

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Message 1404434 - Posted: 17 Aug 2013, 20:46:38 UTC - in response to Message 1404424.  

Pure water is a very poor conductor of electricity. It takes the minerals and such to conduct.

What an interesting device.
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Message 1404446 - Posted: 17 Aug 2013, 21:20:14 UTC - in response to Message 1404434.  

Pure water is a very poor conductor of electricity. It takes the minerals and such to conduct.

What an interesting device.

You are definitely getting warm.


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Message 1404484 - Posted: 17 Aug 2013, 23:15:05 UTC - in response to Message 1404446.  

Pure water is a very poor conductor of electricity. It takes the minerals and such to conduct.

What an interesting device.

You are definitely getting warm.

You've completely lost me, then.

For the record, a lot of people still used salt and ice for ice cream after refrigeration. My father bought a maker and we used it once in the 1970s. We made peach. I don't remember if it was any good, but it was a lot of cranking.

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Message 1404491 - Posted: 17 Aug 2013, 23:57:13 UTC - in response to Message 1404484.  

Hmmm, and all steel device with electricity and current carrying salty water. As a retired electrical lineman that sounds dangerous. (^8

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For the record, a lot of people still used salt and ice for ice cream after refrigeration.

We made some just last weekend with our White Mountain maker. Rock salt & ice and electric no cranking anymore. They have been around for ever.


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Message 1404493 - Posted: 18 Aug 2013, 0:02:47 UTC

Some time ago you said it wasn't "fishy."

I would like to remind you of the term "shell fish."

Now that we are talking about fresh and salt water exoskeletons.



Similar idea, just a bit more final?


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Message 1404542 - Posted: 18 Aug 2013, 5:19:20 UTC - in response to Message 1404491.  

Hmmm, and all steel device with electricity and current carrying salty water. As a retired electrical lineman that sounds dangerous. (^8


You are so close to the truth j mercer ;)


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Message 1404544 - Posted: 18 Aug 2013, 5:23:26 UTC - in response to Message 1404493.  

Some time ago you said it wasn't "fishy."

I would like to remind you of the term "shell fish."

Now that we are talking about fresh and salt water exoskeletons.



Similar idea, just a bit more final?


You've been right onto it from the start Gary Carpenter. But this is not about fish in any way, in the same way that, for example, snails are not fish ;)


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