Dr. Hax

Today's batch: gold rush I won't be getting these again for apple chips. They're small and require a lot of prep work as a result. These also seem like they're taking longer to dry out. There's no way they're going to be so much better that they're worth the extra hassle. But since we have them and aren't going to snack on 10 lbs of apples before they go bad, I'm drying them. Waste not.

I know this looks basically the same as my Granny Smith picture from a few days ago, but these are honeycrisp. What is interesting is that these distilled down to 1.2 lbs instead of 1.5 (and there was about 10% more input here too). I believe I kept these in the dehydrafor longer. I had a lot going on last night and wasn't really timing it. What difference does it make? These ones are crispier and the prior batch was more chewy. Also, I expect these would last several years if we could somehow restrain ourselves from eating them in that time. 😅 If I were trying to sell these and maximize profit, I'd dehydrate them less, tell people that the chewiness makes them superior, and say they'll last up to a year. Plus it'd look like people were getting more for their money, and they would be by weight, but not by nutrition or the number of apples that went into it. It's funny, if I never experimented with dehydrated apples in various ways, and measuring the results, I'd never know about these little tricks that can be pulled. I feel like it makes me an more informed consumer. Even if the market doesn't cater to those who want crispy, extra long lasting apples chips, at least I know what trade offs I'm making. #homestead #homesteading #food #prepping #prepper

When you think about people you know, most of them probably have jobs. A security guard at an airplane engine manufacturing plant, a cook, software engineers, a mechanic, a painter. This is true in America as it is in most places around the world. So how can people say, with a straight face, that America doesn't produce anything? These things don't count? Does value only come in the form of manufacturing physical products, perhaps which are bought by the common person? Look, I get that the US buys more than it sells. I'm not disputing that. But to say "nothing" is produced there is pretty... uninformed at best. #ShowerThoughts