{"id":346,"date":"2009-02-07T20:26:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T03:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=346"},"modified":"2009-02-07T20:26:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T03:26:16","slug":"since-im-sure-youre-all-aching-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"Since I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re all aching to know:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobsredmill.com\/product.php?productid=3683\" target=\"_New\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobsredmill.com\/images\/cache\/BRM-6189693a5bfa45d2eea74216f94ee6b7.jpg\" title=\"Bob's Red Mill Xanthan Gum (link goes to the Bob's Red Mill page)\" style=\"float:right;\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>According to the nutrition information on the back of the bag and some quick calculations, powdered Xanthan Gum has a density of a little over 610mg\/ml (or about 10 slugs\/hogshead).<\/p>\n<p>I think I may be an Applied Microbiology nerd.<\/p>\n<p>See, when I put dirty dishes in the sink to wash later, I often fill them up with water to soak.  I didn&#8217;t see this much in Idaho, but down here in Texas I notice that if I leave them too long, the water will sometimes end up turning into a thick slime.<\/p>\n<p>And here I am, wondering what kind of slime it is and if I could find a way to produce it in quantity and purify it (and then find something useful to do with it).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also wondering if <a href=\"http:\/\/openwetware.org\/wiki\/DIYbio:Notebook\/Keiki_Gels\" target=\"_New\">this delightfully simple gel electrophoresis technique<\/a> might be scaled up for more production-type purposes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the nutrition information on the back of the bag and some quick calculations, powdered Xanthan Gum has a density of a little over 610mg\/ml (or about 10 slugs\/hogshead). I think I may be an Applied Microbiology nerd. See, when I put dirty dishes in the sink to wash later, I often fill them &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=346\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Since I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re all aching to know:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,9,18,6,5,21,165],"tags":[370,408,46,567,349,566,404,405,407,406],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brew","category-food-science","category-hillbilly-biotech","category-microbiology","category-nerdity","category-play-with-it","category-will-it-ferment","tag-applied-microbiology","tag-density","tag-food","tag-food-science","tag-industrial-microbiology","tag-microbiology","tag-polysaccharide","tag-slime","tag-units-of-measurement","tag-xanthan-gum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}