What did you do today non-detailing related?

[Odrapnew1]

On Saturday I brought the engine block into the porch and set up a space heater to check main bearing clearances. All good to go.

 

[DFB]

Turned this box of Roma tomato's into 36 bottles of sauce over the last two days.......







Our supervisor........

 

[Coatingsarecrack]

Turned this box of Roma tomato's into 36 bottles of sauce over the last two days.......







Our supervisor........

Waiting for my bottle…..


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[Tasmania]

Pizza Sauce

 

[DFB]

Pizza Sauce

Not Pizza sauce or Passata.

Sauce as in Ketchup, the stuff you put on a sausage, pie or sausage roll. This recipe is not as sweet as store bought tomato sauce and has a distinctive tang to it. I can not, will not eat store bought sauce.

 

[Bosko]

Not Pizza sauce or Passata.

Sauce as in Ketchup, the stuff you put on a sausage, pie or sausage roll. This recipe is not as sweet as store bought tomato sauce and has a distinctive tang to it. I can not, will not eat store bought sauce.

Nice

back in the day I used to make sauce for pasta...too much work for me...gave it up quick....lol

 

[DFB]

Nice

back in the day I used to make sauce for pasta...too much work for me...gave it up quick....lol

I know what you mean by too much work. In previous years, we would sometimes make pasta sauce or relish from left over tomato's. The de-seeding and skin removal was brutal.

The beauty of our tomato sauce recipe is that it requires very minimal work. I make this from a recipe handed down from my Grandmother, I still have her handwritten cook book to refer to. It's stained from years of cooking and it still smells like her kitchen.



The tomato's are roughly chopped and placed into a large pan, skin and seeds included. We then add sugar, salt, malt vinegar, white pepper, cloves and all-spice. It's then boiled for four hours.





After it's cooled down, although still warm, we run it through the moulie. This separates the skin and seeds, with the pure sauce falling through into the bowl underneath.



The sauce is then funneled into sterilized glass bottles. Done!

I made this sauce with my Grandmother many times. My job was always to chop the tomato's and stir the moulie.............it still is. I continue to make this sauce each year and pass it around our family and friends, and for me it's a way of remembering the wonderful person my Nan was to me.........she was one of the very few, if only, person who really understood me.

 

[Coatingsarecrack]

Why sterilized bottles? How do you sterilize? What’s that recipe gonna cost me?


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[DFB]

Why sterilized bottles? How do you sterilize? What’s that recipe gonna cost me?


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The bottles are sterilized to ensure they store well and don't go bad, we get can store these between 12-24 months.

The bottles are washed then put in the oven for 10 - 15 min on lowish heat, although some people will boil the bottles in water.

Happy to pass the recipe on if you wish. :xyxthumbs:

 

[chilly]

We get paper wasps that love to build nests up in the eaves

I hadn’t seen any for a while but discovered a big nest yesterday

I got the pressure washer out and hooked up last night and mixed up a heavy solution of Dawn and car soap for my cannon so I was all ready to go

I hit them this morning just after dawn while they were all still gathered and calm

Got a bunch of dead wasps

By the time I was willing to walk back over and take pictures the foam had dissipated a lot but you probably get the picture

Hooray for detailing technology


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[Bill D]

I’m constantly fighting paper wasps as well. I have a vacuum interior brush wedged onto a pool pole to knock down the nests Glad I had an extra one of those vacuum brushes.

 

[chilly]

I’m constantly fighting paper wasps as well. I have a vacuum interior brush wedged onto a pool pole to knock down the desks. Glad I had an extra one of those vacuum brushes.

I got an idea off the interwebs to make a slit in a new tennis ball and stick it on a pole

The rough texture really scrubs off the nest down to the little “stem”

I have mine on a telescoping pole my wife bought that was part of a kit for dusting ceiling fans

This nest was big enough and within reach of my foam gun so I took advantage of the opportunity to take out a bunch of the little?$&@!” as well as the nest


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[Bill D]

That’s a really good idea! I should also attack them with my foam gun and watch them drown!

 

[JDGolden]

Definitely works. Now if they're yellowjackets, leave that to a pro. Had an issue with those buggers last summer the day before leaving for a vacation where a house sitter was going to be at my place. Thankfully I didn't get raked over the coals for a short notice service call.

 

[chilly]

Today is more Hawaii critter control

I’m working on a project to try and keep birds from nesting under the half of the house that’s not sitting on the garage

Anyplace they can find between a joist and a wire or pipe is fair game

It makes a horrible mess

I am pulling down nests and then putting up 3/4” netting to keep them out

The area I am working on faces east and I generally have a brief window in the morning to work before the wind kicks up and makes the netting really hard to handle

It tangles in everything

It’s a work in progress but hopefully once I am done that will be the end of it


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[oneheadlite]

That’s a really good idea! I should also attack them with my foam gun and watch them drown!

Also works great for box elder bugs. Not sure about other places, but they were off the charts here last summer.

Put that on the list of “Things I never thought I’d use my BOSS foam cannon for”

 

[opie2]

I got the pressure washer out and hooked up last night and mixed up a heavy solution of Dawn and car soap for my cannon so I was all ready to go

I hit them this morning just after dawn while they were all still gathered and calm
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Dawn kills them?? Never heard of that

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[chilly]

Dawn kills them?? Never heard of that

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The Dawn is not actually toxic to them or anything

What it actually does is breaks the surface tension of the water and lets the water get into their breathing apparatus and they drown

Without the Dawn the water just pisses them off


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[chilly]

Also works great for box elder bugs. Not sure about other places, but they were off the charts here last summer.

Put that on the list of “Things I never thought I’d use my BOSS foam cannon for”

Yeah but think of all the guys who don't have a foam cannon and have spent so much on detailing stuffs that their wife has threatened a divorce if they buy just one more thing

Now they can go to her with a straight face and say "Honey, I need this gardening sprayer to make sure wasps and other stinging critters don't invade our lovely home"

I am telling you it will work

 

[DFB]

Turned this box of Roma tomato's into 36 bottles of sauce over the last two days.......







Our supervisor........

Just cracked open the first bottle tonight, B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L!!