Thread: What are you working on?

Dremel = Straight Razor Tool of Death

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Key Words----

With Discretion and Properly Applied

Pretty much. However, if you fail you will have improperly applied the tool and have been indiscriminate!

Originally Posted by Panama60

My tour of the local shops was not a failure. I successfully learned where I cannot purchase bay oil, har!
I've ordered some bay oil from amazon and hey, free shipping...bonus! It won't be here until just after Christmas.
On my tour, I stopped by Hobby Lobby and found some nice medicine bottle-like containers. Got one for my
Cinnamon Splash.

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I noticed before I filtered my bay rum that there were tiny droplets of spice oils floating on the top of the liquid. I think when I filtered it through a folded paper towel that it took out the spice oils too. Maybe you guys can think of a better way to strain/filter the stuff and yet retain the oils.

Put your spices in s spice bag.
Its like a tea bag of sorts.
Brew, squeeze, throw away!!

I drained mine through a paper coffee filter and squeezed the remaining liquid out.

In cooking, aromatics are either bundled together or tied in a sachet of cheese cloth.

Yes a sachet of cheese cloth might work but there again it might retain the valuable oils.

I was wondering if a piece of aluminum foil could be punctured with very small needles to form a 'sieve' of sorts. However I can see very small particles passing through.

Anyway the journey continues.

4 large bay leaves.
1/4 teaspoon allspice. (3-5 berries)
1 stick of cinnamon.

Crack, not grind, the dry ingredients and wrap them in cheese cloth maybe? You wouldn't have to strain the liquid.

I wish I had known this a couple of days ago. Next batch I'll do that. Thanks Mike, Roy, and Panama.

Originally Posted by Panama60

4 large bay leaves.
1/4 teaspoon allspice. (3-5 berries)
1 stick of cinnamon.

Crack, not grind, the dry ingredients and wrap them in cheese cloth maybe? You wouldn't have to strain the liquid.

My thought is that due to the nature of the cloth that it might absorb the oils while in the liquid. Again

On my batches I didn't use anything 'ground' all was just cracked.

Grinding the ingredients was my mistake, Roy. Mother Benz used this recipe and made it work.
When I get my bay oil, I will try the recipe again, this time without any cracking or grinding.