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1. I also pulled some yeast out that went out of date in 2014, which means I probably bought it in 2012. The neighbors wife came over asking if we had any yeast, she wanted to try her hand at making wine. I told her it was bread yeast, she didnt care. I pulled it out of the cabinet just to find it was long expired. I recommend we try it anyway just to see if it was still alive and usable, so we did. And yes its still good, it was foamy when we checked back 10 minutes later and the jugs are still fermenting now. The yeast we used were the Fleischmann’s Instant Yeast strip packets that you tear open.

   1. “Life finds a way.”

      Surviving is what yeast is all about. Those spores go into a kind of suspended animation, happily encased in their shells, waiting for the future.

      I imagine the wrapped up Fleischmann’s is even more cozy in those air tight packets.
      Or, you could wrap them in a pyramid in the Egyptian desert for 3000 years.

      Our sourdough starter collected our region-specific mold this summer and is happily bubbling away. The first loaf of crusty, tangy bread is a start-of-fall tradition around here.

2. Freezer and Canned Storage Comment: I have one well stocked freezer dedicated to long expiration date food preps that don’t really need freezing, but will expire with time if kept at room temperature….Yeast, Olive Oil, Butter and Peanut Butter, block Cheese (for melting) Summer Sausages/Jerky, Country Ham, Peanut Butter, Cheese, german “dense brick” rye or pumpernickel bread (at Aldi food store), bulk spices, non-GMO seed bank, etc. No need to rotate items at all, just keep in freezer basically forever until needed. If power goes off due to EMP, etc., the expiration date “clock” just starts again. (also keep many prep meds (pill form only) in the freezer too to stop the “expiration clock”. Also keep frozen bottles (cases of 12 oz plastic bottles in same freezer for a thermal (cold) load if power goes out to buy more cold time. FYI, also so far my experiments with canned food in a “cool storage room” average of 60 degrees F year round has shown many items 7 years past printed “expiration dates” are still very good. I think biggest issue was lowering humidity in the room with dehumidifier to prevent rust of the cans.(a few cans started rusting prematurely. So prevent the rust, keep cool, and I think such canned good can often good well past their “expiration dates”. (Never eat from a severely rusted or leaking or bulging can or can that explodes when opened; I did have some can tomato paste that “exploded” and I think the acidity caused the cans to be compromised just past the normal expiration date; also some canned milk that was rusted before I dehumidified. Note: rate of any steel corrosion is slowed by low humidity! Corrosion is related to: temperature, oxygen, and humidity. Decreasing any of these items slows corrosion )

3. Mr. C – Please tell her to get some real wine yeast. It can be ordered online or at a local winemaker’s supply store She is going to make some nasty tasting wine with bread yeast! Been there – done that – puked on the t-shirt!

   1. I told her that there was special wine yeast for fermenting, but she said she read somewhere that bread yeast would work too but it just may not be as good. Lol! I’m not drinking it! It looks pretty gross already, already been 1 1/2 weeks. I’ll re-iterate again next time I see her, Thanks.

4. Too bad tropical storm Willa is northwest of the Migrant Caravan in Mexico. A course correction to the south east would be awesome!

5. Funny thing about the “caravan”; there are countries who would meet this invasion with deadly force at their border.
   (Before anyone gets all upset, no I am NOT suggesting we do that.)
   We do need to do something, though.

6. After watching the link of the BD robot dancing, I watched the next one. The machines they have developed are truly amazing. They have mastered bipedal and quadripedal locomotion.

   I want those guys on my side.

   Carry on.

7. After watching the link of the BD robot dancing, I watched the next one. The machines they have developed are truly amazing. They have mastered bipedal and quadripedal locomotion.

   I want those guys on my side.

   Carry on.

8. Re. The Horde being “encouraged by the liberal/progressive machine”
   When will patriots wake up? Despite having a Republican majority in both houses of Congress and a Republican president for 2 years. And yet the ‘The Wall’ was not built.

   Will we ever learn that Republicans are the enemy we are sleeping with?

   Lastly, Vox Popoli is right, “If the US military will not defend the borders of the USA, there is literally no point to its existence.”

9. The government will act to secure the border. All we have to do is arm up and go down there and stop that caravan ourselves. Our government will come running immediately. They will kill or arrest us and welcome the foreigners, likely with an apology for any inconvenience they suffered. Try it and see. I’ll watch.

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