Not a good idea to expose that to heat
you don't need to heat dessicate it, a silica packet will do just as well
it also doesn't need sterilization
Basically this sub is lemmys diwhy?
TIL: powdered Gatorade exists.
Bro what are your gatorade needs such that this is necessary?
Dunno about OP, but the advent of Long COVID comes with a 5x increase in new diagnoses of POTS. Lotta new passengers on the electrolyte train. On high symptom days, I have a junkie-like relationship with calcium antacids and salt shakers.
What's pots?
I appreciate you asking. Excellent explainer here.
I see, thanks, never heard of it.
How does Gatorade help with that?
Mostly the treatment required a fluid intake increase and salt intake increase. Put almost too simply, electrolytes are just fancy salts
Ty Carrot!
And to go back to complicating it just a little, those metal salts (particularly sodium, calcium, potassium, and magnesium, plus iodine to make them all do their jobs) make your nervous system and endocrine system work. If the salts and fluids aren’t riding around the vascular system correctly, all sorts of automatic body processes start getting fucky. That’s dysautonomia, like in the name of that website.
Electrolytes can help you retain fluid within your vasculature, which helps with pots bc it increases your blood pressure until you pee it out
It sounds like it was necessary for OP because their Gatorade consumption was too low.
Lmfao what is this magical place
Now this is appropriate content for this community. Well done, dullster.
The first air tight container was too big?
Yeah, last time I bought one the powder captured enough moisture that the can corroded. I only drink it about once a week so there's powder sitting for a while
Bro sounds like you need a dehumidifier.
You can order food safe packets of silica beads to absorb moisture
Why is that better than putting the powder in reusable jars?
Less steps
Ben’s wife swears by them.
I hate that I understood that
I don't and I want to know. TELL ME!!!!
Ben Shapiro once tweeted that the vagina should not be wet during sex, and he said his doctor wife is the one who told him that, and everyone mocked him relentlessly for it.
I'm not sure who I feel more sorry for in that story.
Nobody, they all are in it voluntarily.
As someone who has lived in a rainforest biome, I understand this
This is probably unnecessary. The powder itself should be very shelf stable so I would have just repackaged it in vacuumed sealed bags or get an attachment to vacuum seal the jars (vs heat canning).
I have a core memory of chipping away at the brick of what had previously been powdered Gatorade that had since formed into a single solid mass after sitting in the pantry for several months.
That would cost money
Unlike heating your oven
Maybe it's his neighbor's oven?
In the ballpark of 40 cents, less if OP is making his own energy.
Actually, even less is he slid these in after baking a lovely lasagna.
On the other hand, maybe hassling OP over his choice of method to preserve some electrolyte powder wasted the most energy.
Energy is not wasted if it makes someone feel bad
You don't even need to vacuum seal it.
Just a silica pack would be more than enough.
Source: bought a few containers on sale a few years ago, all are fine.
Just closing the lid on those jars is probably overkill tbh.
Just got that vacuum sealer mason jar attachment and use it every day for coffee. Love it!
If for nothing else over OP's method of choice, with the sealer, you can take what you want and reseal without heating up a whole oven every time.
Credit to OP for using what tools they had available, but if this method improves your situation, they'll be spending more time hearing and sealing it than drinking it, plus repeated heat cycles may possibly degrade the product.
I really gotta start using mine. I keep forgetting I own it.
Ditto mason jar vacuum sealer. So convenient!
I hope this is real
Isn't it meant to get wet?
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