Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "Townsends" channel.

  1. ....I don't say this often, but I really would have preferred continuing to not know that was a thing....
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  2. I always keep orange blossom water on hand. Used in small amounts, it can be a great way to add and interesting, but hard to place, background aromatic in my cooking. With floral elements to your cooking, the key is not overdoing it as they can go from unnoticeable to unpleasant and overpowering very quickly, but the middle ground can be amazing.
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  3.  @gabrielclark1425  disgusting, like what they often made the walls out of, but at least something I can expect to not touch in my lifetime or have to wonder if any think I handled thinking it was plastic or bakelite was actually plasticized blood. It's kinda like sausage. Wanting to know it's safe doesn't mean wanting the gorey details of what went into it.
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  4. Yeah, anti-theft devices are few and far between in history (every object being uniquely made means it's harder to walk around the same society with stolen goods and not eventually get noticed) but something like a canoe that may be stored a fair distance from your settlement (supposing you even have a settlement and aren't nomadic) it makes sense to put in the effort if you can come up with something creative like that, especially if it's on the river and just floating it down the river could take it well beyond where you would ever see it again. I'd assume the catch would be trying to make sure the "plug" didn't crack over the winter or trying to remake one the exact same size.
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  5. I love orange blossom water, but yes, the key is moderation, especially for most modern pallets. I find the best use is to try and shoot for a background aromatic that is noticeable, but hard to place (using orange blossom rather than the more recognizable rose helps with this too)
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  6. Could be a cool project, though they'd probably have to be pretty thick and heavy to work with the limitations of the material, and historically, if you could afford the lenses, you could probably afford metal frames, and if you couldn't, that's what monocles were for: so you only needed one lense, which was the expensive part.
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  7. So they switched to molasses dispite it containing no vitamin C because of scurvy? ...kinda like once it was discovered that citrus would cure scurvy, they chose to forgo the cheaper European lemons for limes which had about half the vitamin C to start with, which was almost all destroyed by the boiling and leaving open to air in copper vessels. I like learning about historic food, reguardles, but I'm really glad we're actually starting to figgure out nutrition (as long as you stay away from clickbait sites and people trying to sell you things) because for a scavenger species we're remarkably bad at understanding it sometimes I just am left facepalming and then chuckling at how consistently bad we are at it. Molasses does have a lot of different minerals, though, so a couple tablespoons could be beneficial for a few things (though just a small teaspoon wouldn't do much, and it covers much of the same range as the oats) and unlike a lot of things on a ship it would keep well, so there's that.
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