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Kitchen DIY: Dry Milk to Whole Milk

Kitchen DIY: Dry Milk to Whole Milk
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Dry Milk to Whole MilkIn order to reduce rancidity to help with long term storage, almost all powdered milk is no-fat, in order to use powdered milk as whole milk in recipes, you will need to modify it slightly

Because powdered milk has no fat, it is a poor substitute for cooking and baking recipes that require whole milk.

The milk fat gives recipes (baked items, especially) a consistency that cannot be found without fat.

Preppers can benefit by knowing how to substitute the powdered for fresh in recipes.  If you want to turn dry milk to whole milk follow the guide below.

To Turn Dry Milk to Whole Milk Simply:

  1. Combine 1 cup water with 1/3 cup powdered milk.
  2. Stir the ingredients together well to dissolve all the powdered milk. Use a blender or mixer for best results.
  3. Add 1 tbsp. oil after the powdered-milk mixture is well blended.
  4. Mix or blend the mixture thoroughly.

It is not that hard – 1 tbsp. of oil for every cup of milk…

This is a bit of kitchen knowledge that, while not common, is something every person with home food storage should know.  This tip will help turn pounds of dry milk powder into something usable for recipes

How to Prevent Your Macbook Cord From Breaking

How to Prevent Your Macbook Cord From Breaking

 

How to Prevent Your Macbook Cord From Breaking
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Apple products have an almost cult-like following – and in most cases the quality control is deserving of admiration.

However there is one area that apple gets wrong.  The power cords fail on a regular basis, cost nearly $100 each, and apple holds a patent on them and zealously guards it so when the cord breaks you have to spend $100 to keep the $2000 macbook from turning into a brick.

The best way to keep from having to buy new cords is by preventing your macbook cord from breaking.

I prevent cord breakage by supporting wear points on the ends

I have tried tape, but it does not last long, so this time I started using sugru to build up the area around the magnetic connector.  This prevents macbook cord breakage by keeping the cord from flexing at its most vulnerable spot.

Watch the video above to see exactly how the sugru was used.  In this post I used a homemade sugru style silicone to make these modifications, but real sugru would work just as good (if not better).  I used the homemade kind because it was cheaper and I did not have to order it.

How to Make a DIY Sugru Substitute

How to Make a DIY Sugru Substitute

 

Sugru Substitute for DIYer's
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Sugru is a DIYer’s dream – it is a simple and relatively inexpensive material that can be molded into almost any shape.  If you have never played with it you can buy 8 packs for $22.00

It is no wonder that something so useful and simple has lots of people hacking it, so I wanted to show an easy DIY Sugru substitute

What is Sugru

Basically Sugru is silicone caulk.  As silicone reacts with the moisture in the air it cures (and gives off acetic acid which explains the vinegar smell).

If you mix the silicone with something that holds moisture (like cornstarch) you can make your own Sugru substitute.

This mixture allows the silicone to set up faster, is stiffer, and since the cornstarch moderates the silicone its less sticky so its easier to mold.

You can mix the silicone/corn starch in ratios from 5/1 to 1/2 the more starch the faster the setup.

I later used this sugru substitute to fix a problem with my Macbook’s power cord.  It kept fraying and causing me to spend $100 bucks on the proprietary cords.