Waching daily Mar 23 2018

"O.k., this might lose something in the translation but here goes...

Tail of the "E. R." bush...Not too many people are familiar with this story...maybe only

a few old band members...one late Friday evening...might have been after a football game... a few band

members were out late drinking and partying as was the norm for band members, at this,

time, especially the night before a performance or parade. At that time of the evening, maybe

2 or 3 am, the El Rancho High School parking lot was eerily vacant and accessible. Anyway...I'm

not mentioning any names but it was almost custom for said band members to bring their

cars and race around the parking lot, recklessly speeding and skidding and revving their car

engines with no regard for the neighborhood or property or time of the night.

During one of these late night escapades said "band members" while skidding and recklessly

driving through the parking lot came upon a litter of stray kittens and their mother.

Without going into great detail the entire kindle of kittens and their mother were horribly

run over by the "band members."

Frantic and horrified after realizing what had happened the still intoxicated band members

had discovered that the gate of the campus was left open...

in their panicked stupor they realized the needed a place to dispose of the lifeless

cat carcasses. With the use of a few drum sticks, and old trombone mute and a trumpet

mouthpiece, the band members came upon the "E.R." and began to dig and bury the cats

unceremoniously.

Rumor has it that the band members were so intoxicated that they had completely forgotten

the horrible act that they had committed until it was subconsciously mentioned during a band

marathon later that year...

I know it's difficult to believe but some of this stuff you can't just make up... To

his very day I have been told that as the wind blows through the 'E.R.' bush brush you

can still hear the meowing of those stray kittens in the breeze.

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Video Tour of Purdue's Food Product Development Lab - Duration: 2:53.

We opened the Skidmore Lab a year ago with the primary purpose of supporting our

faculty, staff, and students, especially teaching product development and the

process of that which is very different from what you find in the kitchen people

know at home. As the lab is evolved and we've got it operating at full speed, we

now can start looking to open it up to

people in Indiana, entrepreneurs or entrepreneur wannabes if you will, that

have an idea for a product and really don't know where to go with it so

Opening up the product development lab and expertise that we have here with Eric

Kurdelak and others allows them to come in and start that process.

>>In the Skidmore Laboratory, we represent a wide variety of technologies. Technologies

that can be used to bring that product from the home scale, commercial kitchen

scale to the actual production environment. So when we think about

different things like perhaps the vacuum system here that we can use for

sous-vide processing, not everybody's going to have the opportunity to use one

of these on a daily basis but they can come in and we can collaborate with them,

they can use this one. They can explore that technology and compare it to other

methods of cookery. When do you think about chilling: scraped surface chillers,

you have blast freezers, we have ice immersion, we have all kinds of different

devices for pulling that heat energy out of products. Beyond that of course we

also have a lot of mechanisms for bringing heat energy into products. So

forced-air ovens, open flame, flat tops, char grills, gas ovens, things like that.

We all have induction tops throughout. We also have frying, so frying under

pressure is different than atmospheric frying and we can look at those nuances.

Beyond that, we'll have steam chambers, steam over roasting. We'll have

microwave with a lot of different power available in that application and it's

really an important space for the folks who are trying to identify how do they

bring that product to market, how do they enter that part of the Indiana economy.

So when we think about moving from the stock pot of the sauce that's been in

the family for a hundred years and it's just perfect, now how do we scale that so

everybody can enjoy it? You know we have to stop thinking about recipe and

start thinking about formulation. We have to stop thinking about cookery so much

and start thinking about food processing. There's a lot of hard science that goes

into it and we can be that guiding hand to help folks along. So that's the way

that we're really opening up the Skidmore space for those collaborations.

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