El creacionismo 2025.05.11

Sophomore Slump | He de sobrevivir

A presentation, a project, the process of synthesis, the signing of a song, the planning of the next year, the learning of the quadratic formula, and the fight of communism and capitalism that the cold war brings. All of these are what plagues my mind at the moment (and yes I’m aware all of these are perfectly and easily completed with proper time management and harder things have been done before, just keep in mind that I am incompetent :l).

Inside of me a curiosity to create has been lit, I want to create!

Cheong

Cheong is a Korean technique to create syrup via preservation of fruit and sugar, while this might sound like a daunting task, it is really really simple and 100% worth it!

Now I am by zero means Korean or know much about Korean cuisine (apart from Cheong), if you know someone who is actually Korean please ask them to teach you how to make Cheong, given they know how to make it. Regardless, I’ll write the recipe I learned:

1. Sanitize a mason jar by washing it with soap, and then letting it boil inside a pot until it boils.
2. After boiling the jar make sure to dry it thoroughly inside and outside, make sure not much moisture remains (this is really important).
3. Choose a suitable fruit which contains a lot of water, frozen fruit did not work in my case. If you need some ideas on which fruit to choose, you can start with lemons or strawberries.
4. Wash your fruit with salt, this will remove the wax most stores use to keep fruit shiny and will also remove bacteria living on your fruit.
5. Cut your fruit into thin pieces, it can either be slices or quarters, just leave the inside of the fruit exposed.
6. Weigh your cut fruit, make sure to write this down.
7. Weigh an equal amount of sugar, a surplus of sugar can only be a waste in this case.
8. Start layering sugar and fruit inside the jar, make sure that it is in alternating order, sugar, fruit, sugar, fruit, sugar, fruit…
9. After finally laying all ingredients on top of each other, seal the jar, leave it in a cool and shaded place away from any light, check on it once a day until the sugar sucks out all the moisture from the fruit, swift around if needed.

This will give you a sweet but fruity syrup which you can use as a tea base, a substitute for honey or sugar, as a condiment, or even as medicine for the common cold, I drink tea of the Lemon Cheong I make.

Oh and by the way, if you’d like to keep the cheong for longer than 2-3 days you can remove the syrup from the fruit and keep both components refrigerated for up to a year.

Caramel

I also made caramel, I won’t speak any further about this.

Pants Chain

I made it all out of stuff from Hobby Lobby, only some people complimented it and my girlfriend even said it was plain, is it really though :’)? I wear it sometimes, 3/5 days of the school week.

Project for Chemistry

I have to create a presentation on a topic that is tied to chemistry in some way, I chose light as it’s something I like and because I wanted an excuse to make a candle.

Now I don’t have any fancy glass containers or anything to properly keep wax inside of, so instead I thought of making candles out of monster cans.

I soaked the wick in CuCl₂ which causes the flame to be a green color, I’m also planning to make 2 other candles in the same design, I’ll probably put them up in here when I’m done with it.