h a l f b a k e r yA few slices short of a loaf.
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This shed/greenhouse would have the following items:
A packet of yeast
Pots to grow sugarcane, corn, and wheat
Fertilizer and potting soil
A sugarcane shredder, juice separator, centrifuge, evaporator, corn press,
wheat and corn grinder, and boiler
A quantity of sea water
Fertilized
corn
Fertilized wheat seeds
Fertilized sugarcane seeds
An instruction manual
A bread maker
A knife
A toaster
The intent is that a child (or a whole school) can conduct every step needed
to
make toast from seeds, through oil and flour, to the finished product.
//a toaster// That's cheating!
http://www.thomasth...s/toaster/page2.htm
[mouseposture, Aug 25 2010]
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have you invented *education*? |
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one packet of yeast isn't enough... |
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That list of ingredients sounds like the results of a Prohibition-
era moonshiner's raid. |
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I don't live near seawater. Couldn't I just add some sea salt to some river water and then say it's seawater? |
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// one packet of yeast isn't enough...// |
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You're right, it isn't, but it's not too hard to grow your own from one sachet of yeast. (Hint: add oxygen to the mash to make yeast replicate.) |
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I'm a long-time brewer and vintner - (I won't mention distiller) - and once grew my own yeast until I realized that it was a waste of time because it's so inexpensive. Of course, [Voice], you'd need a few more utensils for the kids to do this (hydrometer, etc.). |
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Erm ... why toast, why not mead? Than they can work with bees, too... |
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It takes a whole lot of wheat to make a loaf of
bread. You better have a lot of pots. |
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~31 ft^2 to produce one loaf of bread. Do a roll and you can cut it down significantly. |
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I'm not sure how you bake individual slices. A very short loaf, maybe, so 3 slices would be about 1/5 of a loaf or 6ft^2. Of course then you're going to get arguments about who gets the only middle piece. |
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(I'm also not sure how well wheat production scales down, the edges of most wheat fields I've seen are always stunted) |
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[MechE] Good point. They can solve that one by growing the
wheat on the surface of a sphere. |
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