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[–] electricyarn@lemmy.world 87 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Bro what are your gatorade needs such that this is necessary?

[–] yumpsuit@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Dunno about OP, but the advent of Long COVID comes with a 5x increase in new diagnoses of POTS. Lotta new passengers on the electrolyte train. On high symptom days, I have a junkie-like relationship with calcium antacids and salt shakers.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] yumpsuit@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate you asking. Excellent explainer here.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I see, thanks, never heard of it.

How does Gatorade help with that?

[–] Carrot@lemmy.today 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Mostly the treatment required a fluid intake increase and salt intake increase. Put almost too simply, electrolytes are just fancy salts

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[–] Ushmel@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Electrolytes can help you retain fluid within your vasculature, which helps with pots bc it increases your blood pressure until you pee it out

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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

It sounds like it was necessary for OP because their Gatorade consumption was too low.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 months ago

Now this is appropriate content for this community. Well done, dullster.

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The first air tight container was too big?

[–] bigpEE@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, last time I bought one the powder captured enough moisture that the can corroded. I only drink it about once a week so there's powder sitting for a while

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago (6 children)

You can order food safe packets of silica beads to absorb moisture

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ben’s wife swears by them.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hate that I understood that

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't and I want to know. TELL ME!!!!

[–] quetzaldilla@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ben Shapiro once tweeted that the vagina should not be wet during sex, and he said his doctor wife is the one who told him that, and everyone mocked him relentlessly for it.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure who I feel more sorry for in that story.

[–] msage@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Nobody, they all are in it voluntarily.

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[–] JabbaTheThott@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why is that better than putting the powder in reusable jars?

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Couldn’t you just put it in the fridge?

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[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 months ago

As someone who has lived in a rainforest biome, I understand this

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Probably be more cost effective to buy an amount you can use before the can corroded. That's gotta be like years and years old can. Can't imagine the product even stays good that long. Work smarter bro

[–] bigpEE@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The cool thing about mason jars is they're reusable. This let me buy the big tub of powder at half the price per oz, and cost me a few cents in gas. This is how we put one over on Big Liquid, my friend

[–] _wizard@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Drink goes in. Pee comes out. The house always wins.

[–] yumpsuit@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Friend, I feel like you might be living your life without the polestar light of Steve1989MREInfo. Please witness the sublime majesty of his important dullster content about decades-old drink mixes.

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[–] DerArzt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago
[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

Lmfao what is this magical place

[–] themachine@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (5 children)

This is probably unnecessary. The powder itself should be very shelf stable so I would have just repackaged it in vacuumed sealed bags or get an attachment to vacuum seal the jars (vs heat canning).

[–] bigpEE@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Maybe it's his neighbor's oven?

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

In the ballpark of 40 cents, less if OP is making his own energy.

Actually, even less is he slid these in after baking a lovely lasagna.

On the other hand, maybe hassling OP over his choice of method to preserve some electrolyte powder wasted the most energy.

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You don't even need to vacuum seal it.

Just a silica pack would be more than enough.

Source: bought a few containers on sale a few years ago, all are fine.

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Just closing the lid on those jars is probably overkill tbh.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just got that vacuum sealer mason jar attachment and use it every day for coffee. Love it!

If for nothing else over OP's method of choice, with the sealer, you can take what you want and reseal without heating up a whole oven every time.

Credit to OP for using what tools they had available, but if this method improves your situation, they'll be spending more time hearing and sealing it than drinking it, plus repeated heat cycles may possibly degrade the product.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I really gotta start using mine. I keep forgetting I own it.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I use it for the coffee beans and to seal a pour over every night so I have a non watered down cold brew for the morning ready to go.

I chop bags of onions into half onion portions and celery and carrots into 2 piece portions for soups and stews. Tomato paste into 3oz portions. Curry paste into portions for individual recipes. We make vodka sauce into a 4x recipe and freeze that. Yesterday I made a full instant pot batch if black beans and frozen them into can sized portions of refried beans. Mine has a pulse function so I reseal chip bags.

I use it a lot and need to find dedicated counter space for it. Start looking at stuff that you think would either work better if it were available in single use form or stuff that is a pain to make but freezes well.

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[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Ditto mason jar vacuum sealer. So convenient!

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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)
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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't it meant to get wet?

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i don't know what that stands for, so i just read it like you said it as a word. still works.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

okay, that's cool i guess? but who is "she" and why did shey say "twss"?

[–] polle@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

TIL: powdered Gatorade exists.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
  1. Not a good idea to expose that to heat

  2. you don't need to heat dessicate it, a silica packet will do just as well

  3. it also doesn't need sterilization

Basically this sub is lemmys diwhy?

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