Bro what are your gatorade needs such that this is necessary?
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Dunno about OP, but the advent of Long COVID comes with a 5x increase in new diagnoses of POTS. Lotta new passengers on the electrolyte train. On high symptom days, I have a junkie-like relationship with calcium antacids and salt shakers.
What's pots?
I appreciate you asking. Excellent explainer here.
I see, thanks, never heard of it.
How does Gatorade help with that?
Mostly the treatment required a fluid intake increase and salt intake increase. Put almost too simply, electrolytes are just fancy salts
Ty Carrot!
And to go back to complicating it just a little, those metal salts (particularly sodium, calcium, potassium, and magnesium, plus iodine to make them all do their jobs) make your nervous system and endocrine system work. If the salts and fluids aren’t riding around the vascular system correctly, all sorts of automatic body processes start getting fucky. That’s dysautonomia, like in the name of that website.
Electrolytes can help you retain fluid within your vasculature, which helps with pots bc it increases your blood pressure until you pee it out
fuck yeah electrolyte gang
It sounds like it was necessary for OP because their Gatorade consumption was too low.
Now this is appropriate content for this community. Well done, dullster.
Lmfao what is this magical place
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Not a good idea to expose that to heat
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you don't need to heat dessicate it, a silica packet will do just as well
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it also doesn't need sterilization
Basically this sub is lemmys diwhy?
The first air tight container was too big?
Yeah, last time I bought one the powder captured enough moisture that the can corroded. I only drink it about once a week so there's powder sitting for a while
You can order food safe packets of silica beads to absorb moisture
Why is that better than putting the powder in reusable jars?
Less steps
Couldn’t you just put it in the fridge?
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As someone who has lived in a rainforest biome, I understand this
Bro sounds like you need a dehumidifier.
Probably be more cost effective to buy an amount you can use before the can corroded. That's gotta be like years and years old can. Can't imagine the product even stays good that long. Work smarter bro
The cool thing about mason jars is they're reusable. This let me buy the big tub of powder at half the price per oz, and cost me a few cents in gas. This is how we put one over on Big Liquid, my friend
Drink goes in. Pee comes out. The house always wins.
Friend, I feel like you might be living your life without the polestar light of Steve1989MREInfo. Please witness the sublime majesty of his important dullster content about decades-old drink mixes.
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This is probably unnecessary. The powder itself should be very shelf stable so I would have just repackaged it in vacuumed sealed bags or get an attachment to vacuum seal the jars (vs heat canning).
That would cost money
Unlike heating your oven
Maybe it's his neighbor's oven?
In the ballpark of 40 cents, less if OP is making his own energy.
Actually, even less is he slid these in after baking a lovely lasagna.
On the other hand, maybe hassling OP over his choice of method to preserve some electrolyte powder wasted the most energy.
Energy is not wasted if it makes someone feel bad
Ziplocks and straws are usually kicking around.
You don't even need to vacuum seal it.
Just a silica pack would be more than enough.
Source: bought a few containers on sale a few years ago, all are fine.
Just closing the lid on those jars is probably overkill tbh.
Just got that vacuum sealer mason jar attachment and use it every day for coffee. Love it!
If for nothing else over OP's method of choice, with the sealer, you can take what you want and reseal without heating up a whole oven every time.
Credit to OP for using what tools they had available, but if this method improves your situation, they'll be spending more time hearing and sealing it than drinking it, plus repeated heat cycles may possibly degrade the product.
I really gotta start using mine. I keep forgetting I own it.
I use it for the coffee beans and to seal a pour over every night so I have a non watered down cold brew for the morning ready to go.
I chop bags of onions into half onion portions and celery and carrots into 2 piece portions for soups and stews. Tomato paste into 3oz portions. Curry paste into portions for individual recipes. We make vodka sauce into a 4x recipe and freeze that. Yesterday I made a full instant pot batch if black beans and frozen them into can sized portions of refried beans. Mine has a pulse function so I reseal chip bags.
I use it a lot and need to find dedicated counter space for it. Start looking at stuff that you think would either work better if it were available in single use form or stuff that is a pain to make but freezes well.
I have a vacuum sealer machine with dedicated counter space that I use for sealing things in bags pretty often, and a cabinet full of Mason jars that I use for everything (including drinking glasses). I just never think to put the two together!
Ditto mason jar vacuum sealer. So convenient!
I have a core memory of chipping away at the brick of what had previously been powdered Gatorade that had since formed into a single solid mass after sitting in the pantry for several months.
TIL: powdered Gatorade exists.
I hope this is real
i just want to know why it's in the oven
It's called dry oven canning. The oven heats up the contents of the mason jar, so when I put the lids on and let them cool, the air inside comes to a lower pressure and we get a vacuum seal. Same notion as you see with jars of salsa, where the little circle on the lid pops up only once you crack the seal
Just a note that dry canning is pretty bad and has a much much higher chance of botulism than other canning methods. (Botulism spores must be kept at-heat at 160C dry heat for over 2 hours, not the oven temperature, but the full temperature of the medium itself)
It doesn't matter here much because it is already powdered, shelf-stable mix, but in general.
https://extension.psu.edu/dry-canning-is-not-recommended
https://extension.sdstate.edu/why-behind-unsafe-canning-practices
https://yesicanned.com/dry-canning/
https://nchfp.uga.edu/blog/dry-canning-raw-vegetables-is-an-unsafe-practice
that's cool! i assumed it had something to do with moisture
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