From: sharen@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Sharen A. Rund)
Subject: Re: Net's Funniest Kitchen Disasters
Organization: Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 16:21:28 GMT

I am posting this for someone else:
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  Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 10:57:06 -0700
  From: Keith Barr <barrk@ucsu.colorado.edu>
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  To: sharen@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com
  Subject: Re: Net's Funniest Kitchen Disasters

I was wondering if you could post this for me...the newsposter here doesn't
work, and none of the system administrators will admit it. :^)  Thanks.
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Well I have a good story for this thread.  Last January I was making honey
mead.  For those of you who don't know what that is, it is a drink that is
made in a way which is very similar to the way beer is made, but instead of
using startches and sugars from grains for the fermentation, honey is used.

Anyway, I was making my second batch of mead--the batch I had made a year
earlier had been very sour, so I tripled the amount of honey I was using to 
21 pounds. I had boiled the honey along with some citric acid, yeast nutrient,
and about 2 gallons of water for about an hour.  The whole concotion was then
to be moved to a 5 gallon glass carboy (the kind used in bottled water
machines).

At this point I chose to completely ignore five years of engineering
training, and I dumped the boiling liquid into the cool glass. 
About 30 seconds after I finished pouring the liquid into the carboy I heard
a faint click.  It immediately dawned on me what was about to happen.  I
started to move the carboy towards the sink, but I was to late.  The whole
jug exploded.  Five gallons of very sticky honey water went everywhere.

The honey water was on the ceiling, on the walls, in every cabinet and drawer,
and on the kitchen carpet.  It took me about 12 hours to get things sort of
clean.  The drawers still stick a little bit, no matter how much they are
cleaned.  The kitchen carpet had to be replaced with a hardwood floor,
and when summer came, we couldn't get the window open at first, as it was
stuck shut.  As you may have guessed, I am forbidden to brew anything anymore,
or at least until I get my own kitchen.  Whenever I do get to brew again,
however, you can bet I will use plastic for my primary fermentations. 

Cheers,
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