Have you ever watched this show before? Its quite intriguing! Today's show was on hatchery chicks and phylo dough.
The chicks was so weird. They find the fertilized eggs, incubate them, and then they all get hatched together. Someone actually created a contraption that once the little ones start hatching, they go on a conveyor belt and the chicks fall through one way and the shells go another. Then they split them up between girls and boys. There are actually people who sort through them (imagine lucy and ethel at the chocolate factory...but there are even more chicks going by!). They tell the difference between boys and girls by their feathers. Boys are all straight length and girls are 2 lengths. Anyway, its like a giant roller coaster for chicks. They dont seem to be hurt or even bothered, but it is a weird thing to watch. The most interesting is just the fact that there are all these machines created to make this happen!
Now the phylo dough was pretty cool, too. Once they get the dough into big pizza crust pieces....they start stretching it. If people do it, they stretch it out on to these like King Size bed looking blocks! 27 square feet! And this stuff ends up being tissue paper thin!!! Impressive!
Anyway, not a very entertaining post...but you should watch this show some time. It's pretty interesting!!
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
How Its Made
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the hastings siblings LOVE how it's made! i don't know if you have it, but the HD version is so rad. you need to catch the one where they make the kitchen aid mixers.
ReplyDeleteI have seen a few episodes... DH and I watched one where they made tiny hard candy with designs in it. (e.g. like a strawberry) It was an amazing process! Sounds like you are finding ways to occupy yourself while you wait for Zach... must be tough. But it's almost time!
ReplyDeleteAs far as preparing for Bean, the biggest tasks we have left are setting up the nursery (the furniture should be here any day!), figuring out who will watch our dog when we are in the hospital (incredibly difficult since we just moved and don't know anyone), and installing the car seat (just plain incredibly difficult).
HA! Christine, you sound just like us! Waiting on the furniture, we still havent done our car seat, and deciding about who can take care of the pets! It will all work out somehow, right?
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