Familiar Chemistry (Chemistry-10 :End)
A cup of cocoa & a boilng stone
I've been drinking Van Houten cocoa lately. It's delicious and highly nutritious, but cocoa powder doesn't dissolve well in water. Normally, you would pour hot water into a mug and dissolve it carefully, but I was impatient and mixed cocoa, milk, water, sugar and honey and put it in the microwave.
Surely, cocoa melts, but it boils and the microwave turntable is soaked in cocoa. Repeating it twice reminded me of the chemistry experiment "boiling stone" that I studied in junior high school. A pumice stone is placed in a flask to prevent sudden boiling (bumping).
Luckily I'm a gardener, so I have a lot of pumice stones. So I put a moderately sized pumice stone in a mug and put it in the microwave for 3 minutes and 30 seconds (500w). Then, there was no boiling, the cocoa melted, and although it was a little hot, the cocoa juice was completed.
Add a little ice to cool it down and make it hot enough to drink. I was able to make effective use of what I learned in junior high school.
(2023.08.04)
身近な化学(化学―10 終)
私は最近ヴァン・ホーテンのココアを飲んでいる。美味しいし、栄養価も高いのだが、ココアの粉末は水に溶けにくい。普通はマグカップに熱湯を注いで、入念に溶かすのだろうが、せっかちな私はココア、ミルク、水、砂糖、蜂蜜を混合して、電子レンジに掛けた。
たしかにココアは溶けるのだが、沸騰し、電子レンジのターンテーブルがココア浸しになってしまった。それを繰り返すことを2回やり、私は中学校で勉強した化学実験の「沸騰石」を思い出した。突然の沸騰(突沸)を防ぐためフラスコに入れる軽石だ。
幸い私は園芸をやっているので、軽石をたくさん持っている。そこで程々な大きさの軽石をマグカップに入れて電子レンジに3分30秒掛けてみた(500w)。すると突沸は起きず、ココアも溶けて、少々熱いが、ココア汁が出来上がった。
少々氷を入れて冷やし、飲みごろの熱さにして、試してみると、これが美味しい。中学校の学習を有効利用できたわけだ。
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I started listening to Spotify audiobooks cause I finally bought premium but I just realised I had a monthly limit when I got the warning after the 22nd chapter of The Poppy War. I finished the whole previous section in, like, 2 days and if you know anything about The Poppy War...
I'm going so fucking feral I can think of nothing else I will not survive the next two weeks this shit has consumed me mind body and soul
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Hi! Of all your fandoms, which one do you think is the most underrated, and you wish more people would discover? :)
Why do this to me?
This question is equivalent of asking to pick favourite child.
Well, I not that active in fandoms per se, more observing from a far with binoculars. But that's not that relevant to this so,
Ah... Otherside picnic, probably. IT'S GOOD, OKAY! BUT IT FEELS LIKE AN EXAGGERATION TO SAY IT'S "UNDERRATED",BUT IT IS. It is certainly well loved in the yuri sphere, but it deserves love even outside the yuri sphere. It is also one of the few yuri that is capable of sustaining it's OWN fandom. And I've only read the manga and not the novels (with that I disappointed the whole fandom), which just makes me excited for when I will inevitably get my hands on the novels. The manga is so good and novels are apparently even better. I bounce off walls whenever I think about it.
So... I let the question simmer in my brain for a little too long to leave with just one answer. So..., lightining round?
Heavenly delusion: Okay so, I might be pushing the definition of "underrated" again, but it deserves more. I will refrain from saying anything else.
Will you marry me again if you are reborn: This is a kinda place holder for like the entirety of shoujo manga as a whole. Half of this (now) list would have been shoujo otherwise. I was so close to answering with the whole demographic. But 1) that's idiotic 2) I'm incapable of choosing favourites, ever.
Dark gathering: It feels like it fell out of the 2000s. (around the time Another aired probably). It is stupidly simple. Pokemon but with evil spirits. And everyone is insane. It's probably because it's nostalgic for me. Also, while I am here, take meiruko-chan along with it. Both are good.
The executioner and her way of life: Another yuri... FUCK! Ok this going to be another placeholder for all my yuri (it doesn't help that 90% of what I read is yuri). (someone pls ask me about yuri, so that I can ramble about it)
Ok, I should stop myself here. Before I derail this entire conversation into talking about sapphics... (This is a problem)
Yuumori is also somewhere in this excessively long list but it's- *incoherent noises signifying various emotions* complicated... (I still haven't completely processed my emotions, okay!)
Are these the "most" underrated? No. A fandom exists, after all. And I have a lot of these that have ended, so the fandom kinda died (ahem... Summertime rendering). Speaking of Summertime rendering, everyone should at least try it. It's good. Please trust me.
Ok, I will actually stop now. I spent longer rambling about this then I should have.
I think I got a bit carried away...
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