> > did have pounds of SAF instant for the same price as
> > the Internet, so she picked one up.
> Just as well probably.  If you run into a pile of cheap fruit... prune-o? 

It of course is possible to make alcoholic liquid out 
of bread yeast and most sorts of sugar, but there is 
better to be made - or, even in this distressed
marketplace, bought.

> > Those are maximum numbers, and they're guesstimates, 
> > and as far as I've read nobody has done viability 
> > studies on the residue. Just because there are a few 
> > virus particles doesn't mean that they are active 
> > enough to infect or that there are enough of them to 
> > be troublesome unless someone spits directly on the 
> > surface.
> True enough, but I don't feel like playing russian roulette. 

It's different if you're playing with six chambers
or a thousand or more.

> > I always found orthodoxy of any sort, big or little 
> > O, to be akin to OCD.
> I've wondered if being Orthodox would mask OCD, exacerbate it, or justify
> it.  

Depending on the case, any one of those things,
not to be speculated on here.

> > They say that if you mix rubbing with aloe gel, with
> > just a little more alcohol, you get something effective
> > as a virucide. But even if it's too weak for that, there
> > has to be a percentage that is virustatic (I'd guess
> > something like half strength).
> People made their own for a while and that was pretty much it. 

I very strongly dislike the custom of hand sanitizers.
Say they kill 99.9%, extremely optimistic - studies of
some commercial sanitizers indicate an actual increase
in viable bacteria and viruses, not to mention what
they'd do if not used according to label. This is pretty
ominous if you think about it; there'll be a cull of the
weak germs, sort of an accelerated Darwinism. In fact, 
the only really effective antigerm remedy is water with
the assistance of alkaline surfactant (i.e., soap). If 
the rest has any good effect, it's dilution. As with 
masks, it's ritual.

> If that's all I got to eat, I'd probably wish I were dead. 

One can endure a Golden Corral or Boston Market meal,
its effects will last only a day or so. Death, well,
the effects are longer lasting than that.

> > > I'm fixing a hole where the rain falls in....
> > What good does that do, your mind wanders anyway,
> > doesn't it?
> At least I get a good tune out of it.

Ah, you should have been a hippie.

Beef hip steak
Categories: main, German
Servings: 2

400 g hip steak, in 2 portions
fresh ground pepper
1 onion, sliced
30 g butter
butter
salt

Oven at 80C/175F.

Season beef on both sides with pepper.

Brown the onion in 10 g butter,

Heat the remaining butter in an ovenproof 
pan. Sear meat 1 min per side. Reduce heat
medium heat and cook each side 1 min further. 
Add the onions. Place the pan on the middle 
shelf of the oven. Cook 10 to 15 min, 
depending on the thickness of the meat, and 
let rest in the oven. Season with salt 
before serving.

marions-kochbuch.com