Bleugh!

"Ambrose Nankivell" <[email hidden]>typed

Quoted message said:

Mmm, I love NO2

ITYM N2O.

NO2 is disgusting brown stuff that makes nitric acid when added to water.
N2O is laughing gas and used to foam up ice cream etc.

--
Helen D. Vecht: [email hidden]
Edgware.

Helen Deborah Vecht said:

"Ambrose Nankivell" <[email hidden]>typed

Quoted message said:

Mmm, I love NO2

ITYM N2O.

NO2 is disgusting brown stuff that makes nitric acid when added to
water. N2O is laughing gas and used to foam up ice cream etc.

Yes, I meant that. Except for the 'love' bit. I understand it's used to foam
up 'smooth' beer. And remove the taste.
--
Ambrose

Helen Deborah Vecht said:

N2O is laughing gas and used to foam up ice cream etc.

Is that why most of the big brands of ice cream taste a bit funny?

IGMC...

d.

cupra said:

Arthur Clune said:

sothach said:

Question: how do you get the taste of washing-up liquid out of a
water bottle?!

Don't wash it with washing up liquid. Works for me.

I use Milton's sterilising tabs in mine (1/2 tab per bottle, leaving
for an hour or two). Available from the baby bits part of your local
emporium.

Arthur

Ditto 🙂

Ditto too! :-))

sothach said:

Question: how do you get the taste of washing-up liquid out of a water
bottle?!

Possibly cheaper than Milton's or similar, a good "taste remover" is
Sodium Bicarbonate. This has the advantage that you are likely to already
own some (Assuming you bake things from time to time). Make up a mild
solution and shake around in bottle. Rinse out. Good for (mild)
sterilisation of Camelbacks too.

Jon

Tony Raven said:

How do you get the taste of Milton out of your water bottle?

Rinse it out with the washing up water ;-)

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sothach said:

Question: how do you get the taste of washing-up liquid out of a water
bottle?!

Milton.
--

Martin Bulmer

Ambrose Nankivell said:

Yes, I meant that. Except for the 'love' bit. I understand it's used to foam
up 'smooth' beer. And remove the taste.

I always thought it was a carbon dioxide/nitrogen mix in those 'smooth'
beers.

David Belcher

In article said:

"Ambrose Nankivell" <[email hidden]>typed

Quoted message said:

Mmm, I love NO2

ITYM N2O.

NO2 is disgusting brown stuff that makes nitric acid when added to water.
N2O is laughing gas and used to foam up ice cream etc.

I think he means N2 and CO2, which are used to foam up beer (though most
beers only use CO2, and some inject it and some just use that produced
by fermentation).
(And I've only seen N2 used to make ice creams in lab demos, commercially
I'm fairly sure they just use air (and seaweed extract or other gelling agent
to increase the amont of air that can be beaten in, in cheap icecream).)

Martin Bulmer said:

sothach said:

Question: how do you get the taste of washing-up liquid out of a water
bottle?!

Milton.

Paradise Washed?

--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham

Alan Braggins said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Helen Deborah

Vecht said:

"Ambrose Nankivell" <[email hidden]>typed

Quoted message said:

Mmm, I love NO2

ITYM N2O.

NO2 is disgusting brown stuff that makes nitric acid when added to
water. N2O is laughing gas and used to foam up ice cream etc.

I think he means N2 and CO2, which are used to foam up beer (though
most
beers only use CO2, and some inject it and some just use that produced
by fermentation).
(And I've only seen N2 used to make ice creams in lab demos,
commercially
I'm fairly sure they just use air (and seaweed extract or other
gelling agent to increase the amont of air that can be beaten in, in
cheap icecream).)

I know N2O's used for whipping cream. (Add to solution under pressure,
release pressure, hey presto, cream with airholes in) I assumed it was the
same for smoothflow beer.

--
Ambrose

In article <[email hidden]>,

sothach () said:

Question: how do you get the taste of washing-up liquid out of a water
bottle?!

Denture-cleaning tablets?

--
Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
Although the hippopotamus hath no sting in its tail, the wise man would
rather be seated upon the back of a bee.

Alan Braggins said:

I think he means N2 and CO2, which are used to foam up beer (though most
beers only use CO2, and some inject it and some just use that produced
by fermentation).

So-called "nitrokeg" beers (ie the "smooth" ones Ambrose was referring
to) are pumped with a mixture of gases, the largest constituent being
nitrogen. And they come in kegs. Hence the name.

d.

davek said:

Helen Deborah Vecht said:

N2O is laughing gas and used to foam up ice cream etc.

Is that why most of the big brands of ice cream taste a bit funny?

And why they come in several knock-out flavours.

--
Dave...

Douglas Steel said:

John B said:

BEER

Presumably from The Milton's Head pub in Chalfont St Giles, just down
the road from Milton's Indian restaurant

I've sprayed me Bangla beer all over me keyboard now! :-)

--
Dave...

davek said:

Alan Braggins said:

I think he means N2 and CO2, which are used to foam up beer (though most
beers only use CO2, and some inject it and some just use that produced
by fermentation).

So-called "nitrokeg" beers (ie the "smooth" ones Ambrose was referring
to) are pumped with a mixture of gases, the largest constituent being
nitrogen. And they come in kegs. Hence the name.

The nitrogen also helps to displace dissolved oxygen, thanks to Henry's
Law, thus prolonging its shelf life - this means that N2 is often used
in breweries for purging beer undergoing secondary fermentation before
kegging/bottling (as opposed to cask or bottle conditioning where
secondary fermentation continues in the beer container after leaving
the brewery). Overdoing it does, however, result in pancake-flat beer
due to most of the carbonation being driven off too [1].

David Belcher

[1] The research project for my MSc was based on this topic. Hence my
ability to produce a solid paragraph's worth of waffle based on
recollections of the write-up.

dkahn400 said:

David Martin said:

Alternatively, put it through the dishwasher.

... which is a good idea anyway as it will also sterilise it.

....and get rid of all the advertising.

David E. Belcher said:

davek said:

Alan Braggins said:

I think he means N2 and CO2, which are used to foam up beer (though most
beers only use CO2, and some inject it and some just use that produced
by fermentation).

So-called "nitrokeg" beers (ie the "smooth" ones Ambrose was referring
to) are pumped with a mixture of gases, the largest constituent being
nitrogen. And they come in kegs. Hence the name.

The nitrogen also helps to displace dissolved oxygen, thanks to Henry's
Law, thus prolonging its shelf life - this means that N2 is often used
in breweries for purging beer undergoing secondary fermentation before
kegging/bottling (as opposed to cask or bottle conditioning where
secondary fermentation continues in the beer container after leaving
the brewery). Overdoing it does, however, result in pancake-flat beer
due to most of the carbonation being driven off too [1].

David Belcher

And an appropriate name for discoursing about gassiness of beers too..
...d

Quoted message said:

[1] The research project for my MSc was based on this topic. Hence my
ability to produce a solid paragraph's worth of waffle based on
recollections of the write-up.

Al C-F said:

dkahn400 said:

David Martin said:

Alternatively, put it through the dishwasher.

... which is a good idea anyway as it will also sterilise it.

...and get rid of all the advertising.

Doesn't seem to on mine. The bottle cage does that for me.

--
Dave...

dkahn400 said:

Doesn't seem to on mine. The bottle cage does that for me.

I always found that a slightly loose bottle -> cage interface combined
with a fast and slightly bumpy downhill could do that. 35mph
decelleration does wonders for "genericising"[1] a bottle.

Jon

[1] Wonderful thing the English language, but very open to abuse!