Jose Miller3 said:A slightly improved version of this thread, posted on the forums and for everyone 😬
So, look—the recipes we have for elderberry juice are... well, they're hit or miss. But they all share one thing in common: they require an insane amount of sugar (we're talking 1 kg of sugar per liter of water; even Coca-Cola, which we all know is ridiculously sweet, only has 10g of sugar per 100ml—so healthy homemade elderberry juices actually have ten times more sugar than a Coca-Cola 😢). Honestly, I don't get why you need such a massive, terrible amount of sugar, but apparently, it's necessary because I can't find a single recipe where the ratio is any lower. The end result is this super syrupy mess 😢 and then people try to fix it by throwing in some citric acid (or lemon juice, which is basically the same thing), but the syrup stays way too sweet and just doesn't taste enough like elderberry.
Question for the folks here at PZ-ofce: what if we tried taking elderberry flowers and dissolving whatever-it-is-that-gives-juice-its-flavor in some organic solvent, evaporating the solvent to get a pure concentrate (either liquid or, more likely, solid), and then trying to dissolve that in a normal amount of water? Or maybe use it as a powder to make juice like how Nestlé does it? Would that be doable? Is there a talented chemist around here with access to a rotary evaporator, some organic solvent, and maybe thirty minutes to see what happens if we give this a shot? 🙂
Hold up, I don't get the math. You drink Coke straight from the bottle and it's that sweet, but you dilute elderberry juice with water, so that comparison feels totally off to me.
Anyway, that stuff is hands down the best juice in the universe. Just realized the crew here has already been doing the math for you, so no need to break a sweat. lol Can't you just stop the juice from spoiling by freezing a huge batch and then just grabbing what you need from the freezer to use up quickly?
jadetrucker43 said:What does that even have to do with this thread? 🤷
The search function is disabled on the Craigslist subforum... ☕
John Doe. He doesn't know. Is this even the Reddit Help thread? I could've asked on Quora, though I doubt they'd be any better at giving me an actual answer.
jadetrucker43 said:What does that even have to do with this thread? 🤷
The search function is disabled on the Craigslist subforum... ☕
No shit, Sherlock Holmes. I figured that out on my own, I just don't get why they did it, not that I expect anyone here to explain it. I just need to remember where I left off and which ads I was looking at—my memory is trash. All 5.
hollowtrucker77 said:so now someone else has to watch your back because you can't handle it yourself?? don't do the crime if u can't do the time
Lol yeah, I totally need a sponsor. Maybe I'll just call you in the middle of the night whenever I get the urge to drop a troll post. Seriously, you have no idea how it feels.
feraltrucker5 said:It’s perfectly logical. A ban means you can't touch the forum until the timer runs out. And yeah, private messages count as using the site. So, I don't see what the big deal is.
Plus, some people are getting banned just because of their DMs—threats, insults, spam, all that junk. It would actually make way more sense to just ban them from the public boards and let them keep sending and receiving private messages if they really want to be creeps. 🤦
The thing is, getting banned over some stupid post that didn't even cause any real damage totally kills the vibe. You can't even browse Craigslist or hit up local marketplaces anymore. Plus, it’s such a pain when you’ve got deals in progress through DMs, then suddenly you're hit with a ban and all those arrangements just go dead in the water. It’s not like it’s the end of the world, but honestly, it feels pretty lame to lose access to messaging just because of some minor infractions. I'm sure there's plenty of other ways this kind of stuff messes things up too.
Look, if people are using PMs to insult, spam, or send threats, we need to just kill the private messaging feature entirely. It’s not even up for debate. Period.
I’ve been banned a couple of times for basically nothing—just some dumb stuff like an oversized image or whatever. I really needed my PM, so this whole thing is just straight-up lame.
Honestly, this is just straight-up gay. You were either being rude or whatever, which is why you got a Ban, but what does the PP have to do with anything?
Look, if I see someone trying to eat a watermelon with a fork, I’m calling them an idiot, not "cultured." Respect to you for being classy, though. I try to keep things polite myself, but there’s a limit before it just gets ridiculous.
Man, I just really need to go off on someone right now. Just let me vent and insult whoever I want. I’ve got some serious energy to burn, even if it's just picking on some cartoon rabbit or a teddy bear. Or maybe I'll just go full chaos mode and start acting like a complete jerk to everyone.
Matthew Grant9 said:If I’m reading this correctly, it looks like there was a little update to the forum layout recently, and now we have these preheaders that seem to be used for... well, I guess emphasizing the main titles?🤔 It doesn't necessarily have to be an option where everything is red; for instance, it could be something like dismissed in green instead.
P.S. You can borrow my shovel and rake, but you'll have to bring your own bucket!😉
Give it a rest, there's no more room in the sandbox. 😁