Wanted: Room-temperature-stable Jello formula
Wayne Smith
jello stable (ie solid) at room temperature.
We will have this jello in a 1 or 2 liter plexiglass box, open to the
air, for 3 or 4 days, at room temperature. It won't be eaten. It
needs to remain solid and also to not degrade or dry up over that time
period.
If there is any non-jello substitute (but with the same properties as jello)
then I would be interested in that as well.
Please e-mail any response.
Thanks: Wayne
Wendy Milner
: I was wondering if anyone out there has any formulas for keeping
: jello stable (ie solid) at room temperature.
Ask at any college commons :-( They seem to have jello that won't
melt for years.
: We will have this jello in a 1 or 2 liter plexiglass box, open to the
: air, for 3 or 4 days, at room temperature. It won't be eaten. It
: needs to remain solid and also to not degrade or dry up over that time
: period.
Seriously, There are recipes for "jello fingers", and such, usually
on the box. It's something like triple the amount of jello,
mix only with hot water, etc. They make these for kids who eat
with their fingers.
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C. Baden
: I was wondering if anyone out there has any formulas for keeping
: jello stable (ie solid) at room temperature.
: We will have this jello in a 1 or 2 liter plexiglass box, open to the
: air, for 3 or 4 days, at room temperature. It won't be eaten. It
: needs to remain solid and also to not degrade or dry up over that time
: period.
Well, you can try overloading the gelatin. Get some Knox gelatin and do
lots of knox with little boiling water.
Another way, though, is to go to the store and buy it! The Ready-Made
gelatinous snacks, sold by a variety of mfrs - Jell-O, Swiss Miss, Del
Monte - do not require refrigeration. I don't know if they'll dry out,
but you could always wrap them in saran wrap.
Also you could try getting some of them, boiling them to try to melt
them together, and then trying to reconstitute them.
A third alternative is to buy some Kosher quick-jelly (i.e., Jell-O-like
product). There are several brands available in Isreal; the trick is
finding which (if any) are carried at your local Kosher store. Check
with the nearest synagogue or kibbutz :) for Kosher shopping info...
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Lori Lee Darrow
(Wayne Smith) wrote:
When I was in London recently, I picked up these crystals that you use to
pot plants. They come dehydrated, and then after soaking in water
overnight they swell up. They are little chunks, but I think that if you
let them set for a few days, they mush together. Oh--and they feel just
like jello. I'm sure that they must be available here somewhere. (also,
they won't dry out for months)
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BASEL, LESLIE
dar...@lock.jsc.nasa.gov (Lori Lee Darrow) writes...
>When I was in London recently, I picked up these crystals that you use to
>pot plants. They come dehydrated, and then after soaking in water
>overnight they swell up. They are little chunks, but I think that if you
>let them set for a few days, they mush together. Oh--and they feel just
>like jello.
Those water retention crystals described above are polymerized
acrylimide, which is safe in the polymerized form--if it is *not*
eaten. If you have a friend in a biochemical/molecular biology
lab, you could make it yourself. However, you want to be careful
making it up, as acrylimide, bis-acrylimide, etc are central ner-
vous system toxins *before* they polymerize and form the gel.
Leslie
l...@ccit.arizona.edu
Chris Morse
a pack of jello. job done!
Nicole Matthews
the "vegemite/jam" thread will know!) with agar agar rather than gelatine?
The reason for agar agar's popularity in the tropics is that it doesn't need
refrigeration. And a nice side benefit for those of us with ethical qualms
- it's made of seaweed, not animules.
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Brisbane, Australia
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Bloke Down The Pub
<qun...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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http://www.melbournefooddepot.com/buy/agar-agar-powder-40g/MC1004 and as its
Melbourne Food Depot I would guess they have a store too.
Mike