
Universalpsykopath tugs our coat and says: Tell us about your feats of deduction and the little mysteries you've solved. Alternatively, tell us about the simple, everyday things that mystified you for far too long.
( , Thu 13 Oct 2011, 12:52)
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Sugar beet has been part of animal silage for centuries. You need yeast to ferment sugars, and yeast doesn't like living in acidic stomachs.
( , Thu 13 Oct 2011, 19:46, 2 replies)

...I saw it on TV when I was a kid. Giggled like a loon, so I did
( , Fri 14 Oct 2011, 9:37, closed)

one of those city-tv-chefs-living-in-the-countryside-and-fliming-it-for-telly jobs made cider from apples (duh) and they said that apple skin has on it/contains a wild type of yeast
( , Fri 14 Oct 2011, 12:16, closed)

...if you mill and press your apples and leave them nice and quietly in a vat, that is what will happen.
But a cow's gastric juices are strongly acidic, and yeast won't work under those conditions.
( , Mon 17 Oct 2011, 20:11, closed)
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