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Wed. 08/03 - Cheese Baths

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Cheese baths––a nineteenth century fad coming back in style. Plus, Shaun the Sheep is officially going to the moon later this month, alongside 10,000 other trinkets. And a volcano has erupted near the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik, but all seems to be under control. Sponsors: Kolide, Got Slack? Got Macs? Get Kolide: Device security that fixes challenging problems by messaging your users on Slack. Try Kolide Today! https://l.kolide.co/3aVdR90 Links: Bathtub Full Of Cheese Is Meant To Soften Skin (Insider, YouTube) The Return of Swiss Cheese Baths (Atlas Obscura) European Space Agency recruits Shaun (the sheep) for Artemis 1 moon mission (Space.com) Apollo 11 relics among 10,000 mementos flying on Artemis I to the moon (collectSPACE) NASA's 'Moonikin' mannequin boards Orion spacecraft for Artemis 1 moon mission (Space.com) Snoopy to Fly on NASA's Artemis I Moon Mission (NASA) Webcam from the eruption (RÚV) Huge demand for helicopter volcano tours (RÚV)  Deja vu as volcano erupts again near Iceland capital (Phys.org) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, cheese baths, a 19th century fad coming back in style.

0:46.5

Plus, Sean the sheep is officially going to the moon later this month, alongside 10,000 other trinkets.

0:57.9

And a volcano has erupted near the Icelandic capital of Recovec, but all seems to be under control. Here's some cool stuff for your ride

1:03.8

home. Would you take a bath in a big hot tub of cheese, or more specifically, the way byproduct of making cheese?

1:17.3

Back in the 19th century, it was all the rage.

1:20.8

Now, first, a brief cheese lesson.

1:23.4

Cheese is basically just made with a lot of milk and a heaping dash of expertise.

1:29.9

You ripen the milk with cultures and then add rennet, a coagulant usually sourced from

1:35.2

unweened ruminants. You heat that mixture to about 113 to 140 degrees Fahrenheit, and it transforms

1:42.1

into curds and weigh. And unless you're making some

1:45.5

cottage cheese for little Miss Muffet, you then separate the curds and the way. The curds become your

1:51.5

cheese and the way. Well, you don't need it for the cheese, so what to do with the way is up to you.

1:58.3

According to Atlas Obscira, one kilogram of cheese produces nine liters of

2:03.5

way, so there's a lot of way left over in cheese making. These days, there are a lot of

2:10.5

regulations around the world about what can and can't be done with way and how it can be disposed of.

2:18.0

Way is categorized as having both a high biological oxygen demand and a high chemical oxygen demand.

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