Only one way to find out.

If you've got food you want to store safely without buying chemistry equipment and you aren't interested in fridge pickles and portioned frozen tomato sauce, check out It's Always Freezer Season by Ashley Christensen and Kaitlyn Goalen. They have a freezer-tolerant mashed potato recipe too!

It's not a good decade to pick up canning, mushroom foraging, and other hobbies that killed people just fine despite years of mentorship pre-AI. A lot of the human-written guides are honestly dangerous. www.cdc.gov/botulism/pre... At a bare minimum, get a way to test the pH in the jars.

My suggestion is consider how hard it is to get time for a vacation and how rare a national road trip opportunity is! It sounds like you’re experiencing time pressure here but that’s a part of your situation I don’t understand well. That said, 80 goes right past Burning Man...

Oh man I hope you get to see all the sweet parks and monuments. I’ve been dreaming of a trip like this, let me know if ideas help en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermili...

You're not wrong, and also, I don't normally use this logic because there are some specific ways in which our modern food supply has made us less safe. Salmonella as we know it in eggs is pretty specific to the American food system (other countries vaccinate hens).

ok update I called purpleair up and they explained that their sensors are particularly bad at dust storms and that while they are working on a new sensor that detects the large particles there are some situations where you currently have to use the EPA website. What a day for that workaround.

And yes I'm quite sure the purpleair one is the one that's wrong it has seemed wonky for more than a month now, this is just the thing clear enough to make me sure. The imagery coming out of phoenix is very clear about this. www.abc15.com/weather/stor...

When I worked in nonprofit development I oversold the economic mobility our org created. A donor did the work to correct me, “you know ‘teach a man to fish, feed him for a day?’ Well, the people with money to be big donors think ‘Teach a man to fish, lose a market.’”

I hope you don’t mind a follow-up on this. Thanks for looking out for cats and stuff.