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Endive Breakfast
Level 1: 66 points
Alltime Score: 163 points
Last Logged In: October 1st, 2009
TEAM: team cøøking! Chrononautic Exxon Rank 1: Clockwatcher


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The Speed of Time by Endive Breakfast

July 20th, 2009 7:33 AM / Location: 40.668595,-73.96160

INSTRUCTIONS: Accelerate or decelerate an aging process.

vrooom on a yamaha, chromed out 11 hundred, what i'm doing, gettin money, what we doin

GETTIN MONEY



For this task, I decided to employ temporally-disruptive pickling alchemy (vinegar, salt, chiles, garlic) to rapidly decelerate the aging of 1lb of shiitake mushrooms and 3lbs of kirby cucumbers. Let's take a look at our starting substrates:

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To halt the aging/rotting chemistry currently going on inside this produce, I called upon my TIME TOOLS (as seen below).

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I had to prepare both the mushrooms and the cucumbers for their journey outside the bounds of regular time. Here is the mushroom prep:

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Now, putting veggies in a jar alone isn't going to help you run skew from linear time, you need some alchemical magic. Apart from normal white vinegar and salt, I also relied on some extremely fresh garlic, dug up the night before (coincidentally, a new moon). This shit is potent enough to defer death for these cucumbers. I also added in the decapitated heads and limbs from a dill, slaughtered humanely. garlik82271.jpgdillheadssprigs82268.jpg

For the mushrooms, I needed something more powerful. I took some dried kanthari chilies that I bought from a dude who looked like he'd stumbled out of a future disco-ashram at the north pole. His mustache was strong and his mellifluous voice spoke only dense trinidadian patios. When I asked him how spicy the chilies were, he offered me a bite. I can assure you they taste like expansive and transcendent fruitfire. Here are before-harvest and after-drying pics:

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My last component is the brine, which I must keep secret. Yes, it has vinegar and salt in it, but that's as far as I'm going. Build your own goddamn time machine, this one is MINE.

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Mix, and PROCESS for a duration in the sanitizing abyss.

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After about 10min, they are effectively frozen in time. After about a year, more or less, the aging process will resume again. Here is the finished product:

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Now that it is done, I'll leave you with this to contemplate:

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- smaller

destemming

destemming

cleaning and destemming the mushrooms


raw mushrooms

raw mushrooms

RAWW


TIME TOOLS

TIME TOOLS

THESE ARE THE TOOLS I USE TO GET IT DONE


cooken up the mushrooms

cooken up the mushrooms

they were waterlogged after cleaning


kanthari

kanthari

related to bird's eye


HOTT FIYAH

HOTT FIYAH

SPITTIN ATCHA


packed mushrooms

packed mushrooms

packed in their homes


time funnel

time funnel

time funnel


brine for mushrooms

brine for mushrooms

this is a deep brine, very secret


vat's abyss

vat's abyss

the sanitizing abyss


processing

processing

"processing the jars"


finished mushrooms!

finished mushrooms!

cooling


raw cucumber

raw cucumber

delicious kirbies


raw garlic

raw garlic

this is the hottest garlic you may have ever seen, picked literally the same day, driven by hippies, paid for by the government, it is so juicy, it feels like handling grapes.


dill heads and sprigs

dill heads and sprigs

did you know dill has heads? now you know.


double cucumber

double cucumber

mysterious aberration


finished cucumbers

finished cucumbers

they are done



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4 comment(s)

(no subject)
posted by help im a bear on July 20th, 2009 12:23 PM

pretty pix

(no subject) +1
posted by done on July 20th, 2009 1:14 PM

You should add team cøøking!!!

(no subject)
posted by Ian Kizu-Blair on July 21st, 2009 10:53 PM

I would not mind eating some of those pickled mushrooms. And tasting the expansive fruitfire. Where is the chile store?

(no subject)
posted by Endive Breakfast on July 22nd, 2009 10:04 AM

My chile store is the street (farmer's market). I'm opening them in 2 weeks, if they are good, I'll send you the other jar.