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[Pampy Profile]

One of the senior chemists where I worked used to identify the contents of unlabelled bottles by putting a tiny amount on the tip of his tongue! How he got away with it, I'll never know - but he did (and he was right 99% of the time)!

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Tasting was a very common trick in some areas of chemistry, especially pharmaceutical chemistry, most drugs are safe-ish in microgram amounts

I didn’t go that far but I did use my then excellent sense of smell a lot, my father and I both worked with the same old school technician who could sniff a chemical and tell you what the type was (aldehyde, ketone etc) and roughly how big the molecule 3, 4 or 5 carbon chain for example) - very useful in the days when analysis was slow and needed a big sample, we only had to confirm what George already knew

[Amyw Profile]

A friend of mine who’s a nurse said when he first started practicing , they used to dip their finger into urine sample and if it tasted sweet like honey , it was a sign the patient was diabetic.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

They all say that Amy it’s a wind up, no sane person has done it since the (paper, colour changing) urine dipstick was invented long befor either of you were born

[scullion Profile]

there's always looking at their shoes for little white spots if they're male...

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Jay Rayner looks to Fuchsia Dunlop this week.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/f ... sia-dunlop

[Badger's Mate Profile]

My first job was spent working with cadmium and cyanide, tasting was never a popular option.

[miss mouse Profile]

They all say that Amy it’s a wind up, no sane person has done it since the (paper, colour changing) urine dipstick was invented long befor either of you were born

And before that it was tablets and a fixed amount of urine dropped in and wait for colour change.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

And before that it was tablets and a fixed amount of urine dropped in and wait for colour change.

I'd forgotten them, though I found them (Acetest) as I did look to see if I could get an actual date for Ames dipstick tests, I did find that the instant reading test was invented by a woman, Helen Free. who worked on it with her husband

[miss mouse Profile]

And before that it was tablets and a fixed amount of urine dropped in and wait for colour change.

I'd forgotten them, though I found them (Acetest)

Oh yes, that was what they were called, well discovered, what a boon and timesaver the dipsticks were, well done Helen Free.

[mistakened Profile]

And before that it was tablets and a fixed amount of urine dropped in and wait for colour change.

Oh Yes, I remember the Clinitest tablets, I am v old

[miss mouse Profile]

Oh Yes, I remember the Clinitest tablets, I am v old :?

I think I remember them, Acetest mostly in my hosp I think, a 'hospital group' so very likely different stuff in different hosps. memory gone. After the individual dipsticks came the multistix, by which time our ancient eyes were too worn out to read them.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

I was certainly using Multistix in the mid to late 70s, though in a research lab not a hospital

I was also doing microscopy of urine sediment which I suspect is a lost art outside of very specialised centres but was considered routine then

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Felicity’s perfect celeriac remoulade.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/f ... ity-cloake

And how to cook polenta.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/f ... ng-polenta

[Pepper Pig Profile]

And, just added, a round up of recipes using chilies.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/f ... p-to-vodka

[KeenCook2 Profile]

I just came across this on the Evening Standard website - I'm ashamed to admit I hadn't heard of any of the chefs

https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandprop ... 19239.html

[Stokey Sue Profile]

I will wait until I have grown some chillies maybe

I just came across this on the Evening Standard website - I'm ashamed to admit I hadn't heard of any of the chefs

https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandprop ... 19239.html

I hadn't heard of any of the chefs, and the only one of the restaurants I'd heard of was the Wun Tea Rooms, because I walked past it several times last year!

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Do you make a Big Thing out of Valentine’s Day?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... by-readers

We never have, even before children but looking at that lot I might just make Coq au Vin which is practically the only thing on the list that OH might actually eat.

[karadekoolaid Profile]

We sort of let Valentine´s Day go by once we hit 60...
The recipes look delightful, but we´re not going to do anything special.
However, in Instagram Vzla there are literally dozens of competitions, because this weekend is also Carnival weekend. Meals, free food, booze, romantic getaways, pizzas, sushi, prosecco, chocolates - all sorts of stuff. I participated in them all, although knowing my luck, not a hope!!

[Earthmaiden Profile]

Good luck KK!

All those dishes look just up my street Valentine's Day or not (though I'm not sure about scrambled egg sandwiched in croissant)! Prawn Linguine featured in one of my most romantic meals ever (well, scallop actually but similar!). I have come to dislike Valentine's Day because in recent times it's become such a 'thing' that restaurants are booked up overpriced which spoils what is also my birthday weekend. Not expecting much to happen for either this year .