I’ve just received a couple cases of clementines which are approaching the end of their life.

I’ve never cooked with them, normally I just peel and eat them. I’m not sure if I’m up to the task of eating all these in the next few days. So if you’ve got some tips on something I could do to make them last longer I’m all ears

    • BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      13 hours ago

      Homebrewing is one of those things that I’m equal parts interested and intimidated.

      It definitely has some appeal, I’m just worried about creating a hazard. Every know and then you hear about a moonshine still around here exploding - and while I’m sure that’s not the risk with all liquors I do worry about fermenting “wrong” somehow and making poison

      But hell, I do want to try it sometime. I’m just also worried about investing in some equipment and then never using it twice. My kitchen used to be something of a gadget graveyard 😅

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        11 hours ago

        To be fair I suggested it as a joke.

        As for creating poison, it is hard to make something poisonous and at the same time good tasting. Stilling moonshine is on another level (and you have to be pretty reckless to poison yourself with methanol).

        Loads of equipment is only “quality of life” improvement. So if you don’t mind to repurpose something you already have, spending more time on it and it may be little harder, you can do it without selling your kidney.

        You can look at the sidebar of our community, there are starter guides to give you some ideas. I think that least gear intensive is mead or cider/wine from store bought juice.

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            It’s always worth a shot. Every piece of research I did on watermelon wine said it’ll taste like cucumber at best and rotten carrot at worst. I can happily confirm that it didn’t deter me and I gave it a shot, it ended up being one of my favorite things I fermented and tasted like candied watermelon that wasn’t artificial

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              13 hours ago

              Love your posts, and I have taken the shot with fermenting OJ, myself! It was fun, but turned out horrid. I kinda doubt OP shares this interest and is probably looking for more practical suggestions

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                5 hours ago

                Only motivates me more to try it out! Worst case scenario it can always be distilled to pure ethanol lol. And yeah, probably not but hey you never know

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            13 hours ago

            I’m just saying that there are weirder things people tried (I’m looking at you @poleslav@lemmy.world )

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              13 hours ago

              I was going to do a lemon wine and now I might do orange brandy as well just to give it a shot lol