Sugar production used to be huge in Washington State. U&I (Utah and Idaho) beat sugar was very good sugar indeed. C&H (California and Hawaii) cane sugar producers in cahoots with the government drove U&I out of business by subsidizing cane sugar production.
U&I was a Mormon operation, I don’t know about C&H
The beat fields were great pheasant hunting, miserable to walk in, but full of bugs and great cover.
5
I remember driving past a sugar plant in central Calif and it smelled just as bad if not worse that a sewer plant!
3
The potato processing plants out around Moses Lake, Wash. smell just as bad on a hot Summer day when you pass by them alongside I 90. We used to joke as kids when we passed by there which one of us let out a really stinky fart. And pulp mills aren’t much better either.
4
Yep. Sugar production smells disgusting. You used to be able to smell the plant in Moses Lake from damn near to Spokane. It was not as bad as the sheep slaughter house operation in Ellensburg though. God Almighty, that damn thing was stomach turning. I think they feed a lot of silage in sheep finishing and silage smells bad enough before it is run through an animal. Kind of like cat food in that regard. I’ve often wondered if people didn’t feed house cats such disgusting smelling rations if perhaps it might help in that regard.
5
And don’t even get me started on rendering plants, the one by the stockyards in the Spokane valley stunk so bad it would gag a maggot.
3
Time to think about making gingerbread with that molasses for the grandkids. Mmmm. Broken-up gingerbread house pieces with coffee. (I’ve been baking lately. Hey, some guys bake!)
7
I’ve never seen anything more racist in my life!
5
And evidently it’s explosive too. Wasn’t it a Dixe sugar plant in Savannah Ga. that exploded a few years ago?
I used a gallon a few weeks ago. The neighbor picked up a really cool Wilton Bullet Vise that was completely rusted solid and was cogitating about how to get it going again. I threw it in a pickle bucket and dumped molasses over it and covered it with water. He and his brother were skeptical until I fished it out and hosed it off, gave it a few blows with a dead blow mallet and away she went.
It allows for separating the cane into four marketable components, one of which is a relatively pure juice that can be sold as is or further refined into various grades of granulated sugar.
It doesn’t seem to have caught on. Probably too expensive to replace existing equipment.
1
About ten years ago I made the mistake of watching how hot dogs are made and I haven’t had a hot dog since.
5
I used to make sugar (1970’s). It does smell bad, but you stop noticing it in about 2 minutes work time. Of course, everyone you meet after work can smell it on your close. i had to take a shower and change clothes before being allowed to come all the way into the upstairs part of the house after work. Still, it was fascinating talking to the other employees, who mostly worked the campaign season in addition to regular jobs in the auto chops.
3
Paper mills and oil refineries don’t smell so great either. I’ve lived near both (not at the same time. lol)
And oh gaaaah, fermented rice! Yikes.
The initial stages of making sugar in this video looked unsanitary as Hell!
1
It’s not that gross. A slaughterhouse is gross, from what I’ve heard.
When it said “gross” I thought maybe they refined it backwards through the intestines of pigs. It’s just a manufacturing process of non-living material.
1
A mushroom factory with mushrooms growing in rabbit poop smells really bad, too (at least when you’re down wind). You know, just for reference.
I worked in a chemical plant that produced ethyl mercaptan. Look it up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJk4y9NGvE
Sugar production used to be huge in Washington State. U&I (Utah and Idaho) beat sugar was very good sugar indeed. C&H (California and Hawaii) cane sugar producers in cahoots with the government drove U&I out of business by subsidizing cane sugar production.
U&I was a Mormon operation, I don’t know about C&H
The beat fields were great pheasant hunting, miserable to walk in, but full of bugs and great cover.
I remember driving past a sugar plant in central Calif and it smelled just as bad if not worse that a sewer plant!
The potato processing plants out around Moses Lake, Wash. smell just as bad on a hot Summer day when you pass by them alongside I 90. We used to joke as kids when we passed by there which one of us let out a really stinky fart. And pulp mills aren’t much better either.
Yep. Sugar production smells disgusting. You used to be able to smell the plant in Moses Lake from damn near to Spokane. It was not as bad as the sheep slaughter house operation in Ellensburg though. God Almighty, that damn thing was stomach turning. I think they feed a lot of silage in sheep finishing and silage smells bad enough before it is run through an animal. Kind of like cat food in that regard. I’ve often wondered if people didn’t feed house cats such disgusting smelling rations if perhaps it might help in that regard.
And don’t even get me started on rendering plants, the one by the stockyards in the Spokane valley stunk so bad it would gag a maggot.
Time to think about making gingerbread with that molasses for the grandkids. Mmmm. Broken-up gingerbread house pieces with coffee. (I’ve been baking lately. Hey, some guys bake!)
I’ve never seen anything more racist in my life!
And evidently it’s explosive too. Wasn’t it a Dixe sugar plant in Savannah Ga. that exploded a few years ago?
Where does sugar come from? Beets me!
Molasses damn near took out Boston https://www.history.com/news/great-molasses-flood-science
I used a gallon a few weeks ago. The neighbor picked up a really cool Wilton Bullet Vise that was completely rusted solid and was cogitating about how to get it going again. I threw it in a pickle bucket and dumped molasses over it and covered it with water. He and his brother were skeptical until I fished it out and hosed it off, gave it a few blows with a dead blow mallet and away she went.
A few years ago, I found this cleaner alternative for processing sugar cane: https://www.tilbytechnologies.com/
It allows for separating the cane into four marketable components, one of which is a relatively pure juice that can be sold as is or further refined into various grades of granulated sugar.
It doesn’t seem to have caught on. Probably too expensive to replace existing equipment.
About ten years ago I made the mistake of watching how hot dogs are made and I haven’t had a hot dog since.
I used to make sugar (1970’s). It does smell bad, but you stop noticing it in about 2 minutes work time. Of course, everyone you meet after work can smell it on your close. i had to take a shower and change clothes before being allowed to come all the way into the upstairs part of the house after work. Still, it was fascinating talking to the other employees, who mostly worked the campaign season in addition to regular jobs in the auto chops.
Paper mills and oil refineries don’t smell so great either. I’ve lived near both (not at the same time. lol)
And oh gaaaah, fermented rice! Yikes.
The initial stages of making sugar in this video looked unsanitary as Hell!
It’s not that gross. A slaughterhouse is gross, from what I’ve heard.
When it said “gross” I thought maybe they refined it backwards through the intestines of pigs. It’s just a manufacturing process of non-living material.
A mushroom factory with mushrooms growing in rabbit poop smells really bad, too (at least when you’re down wind). You know, just for reference.
I worked in a chemical plant that produced ethyl mercaptan. Look it up!