hardened Posts

Save Your Money! 3 Easy Ways to Soften Hard Brown Sugar

Why Does Brown Sugar Harden? Image Source: Donovan Govan/ Wikimedia Commons In order to understand how to soften brown sugar, we must first figure out why it goes hard, to begin with. Brown sugar is made up of two ingredients: granulated sugar and molasses.

Art

How to Make Your Own Epoxy Resin Art: An Introduction

It also offers uniform polymerization (crystallization and hardening) making it possible for the average home user to craft a consistent and secure material with basic home items. Epoxy resins generally contain four components: the monomer resin, the hardener, the accelerator and the plasticizer.

Humor

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Cops Just Wanna Have Fun - Funny!

After a long day fighting crime, there's nothing more satisfying for a hardened cop than a bit of... skipping rope? Cops Just Wanna Have Fun - Funny! funny, prank, gag, cop After a long day fighting crime, there's nothing more satisfying for a hardened cop than a bit of... skipping rope?

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Would You Eat This Dragon?

A very traditional Chinese folk art which is really rarely seen nowadays is drawing with hot caramel sugar, which hardens very quickly and can be lifted off the page to present a real life suger sculpture, beautiful to see and yummy to eat! Would You Eat This Dragon?

This Recent Technique Could Put an End to Knee Pain

However, once exposed to UV light, it hardens, providing a sort of scaffold for stem cells to attach to and grow on. The way it is built involves many bindings and criss-crossing fibers, to provide a very strong and stable structure.

Nature

The Birth of the Praying Mantis - Fascinating!

It hardens around them for protection. After about a month, tiny praying mantis babies make their way out. See these rare photos of this special and unique process of nature. The Birth of the Praying Mantis - Fascinating!

Soothe Your Throat With Homemade Honey Cough Drops

Ingredients: 1/2 cup of raw, buckwheat honey (or any other dark honey) 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 teaspoon freshly grated ginger root For dusting: 1/4 cup powdered sugar Kitchen items: Candy thermometer A candy mold with small openings (or oil a piece of parchment paper and pour the candy on it, let it harden

Ever Hear of These Great and Easy Kitchen Tips?

When the chocolate hardens, blow up the balloon and there you have it - chocolate serving bowls. Put cuttings of herbs such as parsley, cilantro, rosemary, mint, basil etc. in an ice tray, add olive oil and freeze. Next time you cook, you can use these instant flavor enhancers.

Exercises to Improve Circulation & Blood Flow in Your Feet

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How to Effectively Improve Leg Circulation by About 75%

With increasing age, plaque, a sticky substance composed of fat and cholesterol, accumulates in the arteries, resulting in hardening and, consequently, inadequate blood flow to the legs.

Art

Slovenia's Zlata: A Rare Performer of Improbably Bendy Feats

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Have You Ever Seen a Performer as Flexible as This?

Apparently the key to her incredible ability is her ligaments, which have not hardened as most adults' typically do. Be prepared to be amazed (and wince!)

5 Refreshing Recipes for Homemade Soap

Lye is another name for the chemical sodium hydroxide (NaOH) that causes soaps to harden and gives them their renowned cleaning abilities. Warning : It is important when using lye to wear gloves, long sleeves and preferably goggles because the chemical can burn the skin.

Humor

Russia Can Be One Heck of an Odd Place...

Don't mess with this battle-hardened veteran! 8. Smile for the assault rifle! 9. Perfect match! 10. It was too heavy to carry. 11. This sure doesn't look like the woods... 12. I didn't know the Burger King had emigrated to Russia. 13. That's some mighty strong duct tape! 14. This car oozes class!

Design & Photography

See the Transformation of a Fresh-Faced Man Into a Soldier

Content and image source: The Chive Photos: From Fresh-Faced to Battle-Hardened in WWII ww2, soldiers, baba recommends, old photos, transformation, vintage photos, design and photography Young American soldier George Camblair is the subject of this photo series, which was captured back in 1942.

6 Fantastic Recipes for Bowls You Can Literally Eat!

Quickly, before the cheese hardens, place another bowl on top and press it over the cheese. 7. Remove the top bowl and the parchment paper. Now you have great parmesan bowls! Crispy Bread Bowls 1. Preheat the oven to 400F degrees 2.

Get Wax Out of Your Clothes Easily with This Guide

Scrape the Stain Once the wax has cooled and hardened, try to remove as much of it as possible by scraping the stain. You can take a butter knife and work on the wax to remove as much of the hardened wax as possible.

Art

Majestic Sculptures Made of Resin and Wood

Artist Traps Entire Planets within Beautiful Resin Statues

By encasing textured pieces of wood in dyed resin, which he then hardens using a pressure-cooker, he can create sculptures which appear to encase entire landscapes of mountains, trees and deserts.

Science and Technology

This is Genius, How Have I Not Thought of It?

The wax accumulates around the wick and hardens, forming a second candle. All that’s left is to open the hollow stalk and use the new candle. While some of us may miss the drips of wax we've come to know from our candles, it makes a lot more sense to do it Shine's way, and re-use the candle.

You Don’t Need a Pharmacy: Natural Home-Made Cough Drops

Let the mixture cool down at room temperature until it hardens. Pop the candies out of the mold. If you used a plain silicon pad, break the hardened candy. 7.

Cute overload

These Guard Dogs Are Not Exactly Fearsome...

source These Guard Dogs Are Not Exactly Fearsome cute, photos, funny, dogs, guard dogs Maybe these cute pooches are supposed to deter hardened intruders from their life of crime by being so woolly and lovely!

Twix Cake -Turn your Favorite Candy Bar Into a Cake!

Make Your Own Twix Cake with This Easy Recipe

Spread the chocolate on the cake with a spoon in zigzag motions to form ridges, and put in the refrigerator for 20 minutes until the chocolate hardens. Directions for the chocolate coating: 1. While the chocolate layer is cooling, put the chocolate chips and coconut oil in a microwave-proof bowl.

10 Foods That'll Lower Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

Keep Your Arteries Clean by Eating These Foods Every Day

However, when fat, cholesterol and other substances build up in the arteries, they become clogged and eventually narrow and harden. This condition, which reduces the blood flow through the arteries, is known as atherosclerosis.

Should You Use Olive Oil to Clean Your Ears?

Is It Safe to Use Olive Oil to Clean Your Ears?

The few cases when ears do require an additional scrub is when they’re infected or blocked by hardened earwax, in which case you can go to your doctor to conduct an irrigation procedure or do it at home.

Banana Splits Mini Bites

To quickly harden the chocolate, place dipped bananas in the freezer for five minutes. * Fill each well with ice cream (I filled mine with vanilla chocolate chip) and top with whip cream and a maraschino cherry.