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I'm a 99% FreeBSD guy but in the kitchen FreeBSD failed for me. It did not operate the toaster.
So only chance to make it work was the original.

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Apple peel is a rich source of quercitin, which protects against covid infection. Eat your peel (but wash off the bloody wax the shop sprays them with first, with warm water).
 
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Looks like onions are the best readily available source. Apples have about the same amount as blueberries, red apples are the best.
red onions and hot peppers, that's two thirds of a salsa. Elderberry (Sambucus Nigra, probably other species) is not uncommon in a lot of places.
In the US, cranberries are easily available (They are good for more than just Thanksgiving)
 
I had Vidalia onion pie before. It was pretty good.
Carmelized onions; amazing how sweet they are. Cut onions like a "blooming onion" butter, salt pepper wrap in foil on the grill. Good eats. Corn on the cob: don't husk just toss on the grill, let it char. Husk and silk strip easily, good flavor.

Sorry, I like food, I like to cook. Good thread.
 
Non-carnivores better look away now.


Another way that I like is baked in a pyrex baking dish. Slice the liver into strips, dust them in flour, lay them out flat in the bottom of the dish. Add ground black pepper. Sprinkle some mixed herbs on top. Slice the onion(s) and lay on top of the liver. Bake in the oven around 200C for about half an hour, maybe a bit longer, until the liver is cooked right through. Very tasty. For bonus points line the pyrex dish with baking paper so you don't have to soak it afterwards. You can serve it as it is or add some veggie like some carrots and broccoli.
 
I thought you could burn a couple of special logs to burn it off?
I've never found those to be very effective. Maybe for a smooth-walled stovepipe those can work, but my fireplace is a traditional brick unit and doesn't have a liner. Lots of nooks and crannies for stuff to get stuck in... there's really no substitute for scrubbing it out.
 
red onions and hot peppers, that's two thirds of a salsa. Elderberry (Sambucus Nigra, probably other species) is not uncommon in a lot of places.
In the US, cranberries are easily available (They are good for more than just Thanksgiving)
We are drying elderberry blooms for the tea and some we use to make fermented drink (not alcohol). With berries we made sometimes wine.
 
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Non-carnivores better look away now.


Another way that I like is baked in a pyrex baking dish. Slice the liver into strips, dust them in flour, lay them out flat in the bottom of the dish. Add ground black pepper. Sprinkle some mixed herbs on top. Slice the onion(s) and lay on top of the liver. Bake in the oven around 200C for about half an hour, maybe a bit longer, until the liver is cooked right through. Very tasty. For bonus points line the pyrex dish with baking paper so you don't have to soak it afterwards. You can serve it as it is or add some veggie like some carrots and broccoli.
I love lamb liver :).
 
Maybe for a smooth-walled stovepipe those can work
Yes I was looking at plumbing of stovepipe and you have to put the overlap in the right direction or creosote will leak out of the joints leaving stains.

The chimney cleaning logs just burn hotter to and I can't imagine that would be good for a fireplace. Plus nothing beats a brushing.
 
Apple peel is a rich source of quercitin, which protects against covid infection. Eat your peel (but wash off the bloody wax the shop sprays them with first, with warm water).
I wonder if this is a reason "An apple a day keeps the Dr away".

Jose only if his mother was a hamster.
 
Apple peel is a rich source of quercitin, which protects against covid infection. Eat your peel (but wash off the bloody wax the shop sprays them with first, with warm water).
This article says "QR (quercitin) may hold therapeutic potential against SARS-CoV-2 due to its inhibitory effects on several stages of the viral life cycle." and "However, large well-designed RCTs of quercetin-based compositions are still needed to identify an effective COVID-19 treatment". Further, in one of the references cited, we find Fuji apple has 2.3 mcg QR/100gm, compared to onions, red leaf lettuce, asparagus etc, all of which were over 10 mcg/100gm. And we know that most living things are very complex mechanisms and no single complex molecule by itself will have an outsized influence. Not to mention that you might have to eat lots and lots of stuff in order to get enough of some "magic" enzyme or what have you. So eat peel if it makes you feel good and virtuous but don't expect it to cure covid for you!

In fact, one should not take such studies too seriously. We know there are significant problems with them. A 2016 Nature survey, for example, revealed that in the field of biology alone, over 70% of researchers were unable to reproduce the findings of other scientists and approximately 60% of researchers could not reproduce their own findings -- from https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-019-00004-y
 
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