Salting

When snow starts hitting the ground, so does a second white crystal: rock salt.If you live in a region where winter weather is a regular hazard, you are likely used to pouring salt on your sidewalks or watching trucks douse the streets in it. But how does it work? And how much salt do humans dump onto our planet’s surface? The second question is easier to answer: a lot. We covered streets and sidewalks with nearly 23 million metric tons of salt across the U.S. in 2018 alone.Salt doesn’t directly melt ice, nor does it make…

Coffee Data ScienceApplying cooking to roasting?I have been thinking about water. I have tried experimenting with my water recipe, but I still don’t have a sense of which direction to go because my filtered water always had won out. In the water discussions, there is talk about using distilled water and then adding minerals after the shot. It reminded me of cooking. I used to add salt after food was done, but then I learned how to cook and found out you’re supposed to season food before you cook it.When brewing coffee, it…