Slimy but Satisfying

Heyo World,

Back for the final day of normal blogs, we started our day off with the lovely lecture about microbiology from Mr. Ramirez who focused on the general idea of microbiology. Below is a diagram of metabolism in the body or more like aesthetic representation.

This is a map of the different metabolisms in the body, which looks like a subway map.

Then he switched to questions and different avenues of the different jobs one could take after the field of microbiology. Then after lunch we worked on a small lab on the seaweed we collected from the beach and some edible water bottle experiments. First we made a gelatinous mixture with Sodium Acetate and a juice of our choice. Then we went outside with the cooler mixture to pipette into the water to make caviar/ spaghetti. Although all of it was horrible tasting and feeling, the seaweed we got later was slimy but satisfying. Probably not satisfying but it was interesting how slimy the bags got and how rancid the smell caused everyone to gag. Luckily the workshop ended with a fun karaoke session with different ocean songs.

Looking more into edible water bottles, I knew about them before we went into this workshop. All over the internet is the budding world of gastronomy becoming more popular to test out. On simple Tik Tok videos, people are making different caviar of their choice though different fruit juices. Now knowing how disgusting it is to have so small edible water bottles, I wanted to find a way for the juices to be congealed, a different way to allow there to be clean water inside of the bigger bubble. Although the juice in the activity tasted the same in the fake caviar, it was thicker and tasted saltier because of the sodium agate. Looking at online recipes, the way in the classroom was the culinary version of how to make them but not how to make them actually into water bottles. Looking at ooho’s water bottles, you need to freeze water and then put it into a calcium chloride solution. Then you add it to a brown algae extract, which would cause the membrane to get stronger but yet will not have the same thick walls throughout the sphere. Looking at the picture below, this is what the 2 cent water bottle is actually like.

The membrane is stronger and thinner without the algae being added to the actual water.

The process being used, called "Specification" was coined in 1946, which has always cost 2 cents. Although this is a revolutionary process, there is still a problem that we still need work on, and that is the sanitary aspect of having gelatinousness water bottles with no outside wrapping from each other. This could cause some sanitary issues in the future.

Thank you for Reading!