OT On/Topic... removing rust the easy way.

Good to know! I have also found, by accident, hat most any Titebond type PVA wood glue will remove rust also.

Keep a gallon of white vinegar on hand all the time. One of the most useful chemical compounds known to man.

I just used it last week to do my every 6 month drain maintenance on all the drains in the house (with baking soda); to clean out the Kuerig coffee maker, and freshen up the dishwasher; to kill some weeds growing up through the decomposed granite (in lieu of RoundUp).

And, added a tablespoon in with two cups of raw rice cooked in the rice cooker ... keeps the rice from getting gummy.

After my AC guy told me to use vinegar instead of bleach, cheaper, in the AC drain I also started using it in my sinks. Soak you faucet aerator in vinegar and it works like new again.

But, gummy rice stays on your chopsticks better.

main ingredient is water in vinegar

water removes rust well too once oils and grease are removed

maybe the acids in vinegar increases the reaction time or it may make the water penetrate better

might be improved ion exchange over just plain water

hmmmm

No buts ... you don't eat gumbo with chopsticks, cher.

Vinegar is also a chemical used is photo developing. But probably not as much today.

Speak for yourself :-)

Acetic acid has a number of uses, including as precursor to PVA (which is why PVA glues have a vinegar odor) and a component in Acetylsalicyclic acid (ASA), AKA Aspirin.

Vinegar is very dilute Acetic acid.

I'll cheerfully provide the gumbo just to watch that. lol

Now, if you eat boiled crawfish with chopsticks, we could take that on the road...

Yeah. It's often referred to as "sticky" rice. A distinct species of rice which is very "glutinous" (gummy) and is supposed to cook up like that. If you don't like yer rice, "gummy", then choose a different type of rice. Long white rice and basmati are "fluffy" rices. ;)

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Look at you .. telling a coonass, who can look at any rice field and tell you how much gravy it will take to cover it up, about rice??

Besides, I have a wife who I guarantee will never fail to make _any_ rice gummy ... that's apparently how they teach'em in AR.

How is that different from unpeeled prawns, which are commonly eaten with chopsticks in certain cultures?

UNPEELED? That just ain't right. Makes an extra step to eating them. And makes yer fingers messy...

Or maybe - JUST MAYBE - it (the acid in the vinegar) is reducing the ferric iron oxide to ferrous iron oxide. Yeah, I choose that one, acids do that..

I was a photographer for 50 years. Neither I nor anyone I ever met or heard of used vinegar in photography. Acetic acid, yes; vinegar, no. The acid is often used to stop the action of the developer which is basic.

Plus other stuff depending upon from what it was made.

Plus the other stuff.

Glacial acetic acid is generally 28% acid. I never measured but probably used about 1 ounce per 32 ounces of water which would be around 1% or less.

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