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tofuknight
2008-11-29 07:07 pm UTC (link)

In the interest of making this at least interesting (instead of just ragificating), why don't people with CF get cholera?

Also, cooking tips I learned this Thanksgiving:

Large turkeys create lots of drippings/juice. Consider this when putting said turkey in a roasting conatiner.

Due to said large amounts of juice, those stuffing recipies that call for croutons instead of soft bread have a point.

Over ~17lbs, cooking time for a turkey doesn't change. Only tested up to 25lbs. (do turkeys larger than 25lbs exist?)

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altoidsaddict
2008-11-29 08:31 pm UTC (link)

I make cornbread/chorizo stuffing, myself. The trick is to make the cornbread and cut it up the day before so that it dries out a bit. It still winds up a bit mushy, but it's good that way! Also, the extra stuffing that didn't fit into the turkey completes its cooking on the stove, and I borrow turkey drippings for that.

I'm currently making turkey stock for risotto. The best part of Thanksgiving is the leftovers.

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fakename
2008-11-29 09:08 pm UTC (link)

If you have the patience, separating a turkey into breasts and legs has benefits. You can brine them much more easily. You can put the parts on top of the stuffing to add juices to it (use the backbone / wings for stock for it,) and you can remove the breasts when they're done and let the legs cook until they're perfect.

Also a nice excuse if you want to smoke part of the bird and not the other parts.

(Managed to make surprisingly good reduced sugar sweet potatoes. Surprised me, that.)

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ecchaniz0r
2008-11-29 11:28 pm UTC (link)

It's the way our cells osmose things, or don't osmose, as the case may be. Lemme wikilink, it's like - very technobabble-riffic and I will probably not be coherent. it has to do with this little sucka! Basically salt goes in salt goes out; the cholera bacteria can't attach to our intestines - or the intestines of many people who just carry the gene - the way it does normal people. So while it's not a great idea for me to go around chugging sludge water, I can't get cholera. Whee!

Also I skipped all the usual hereditary allergies in my family except the one to codeine, which is a bonus. I don't know how common that is, but maybe allergens don't attach to my cells the way they do to normal people's as well. ...It's like genetic fail-velcro!

Yeah, I'm way too entertained by and fascinated with the way my physiology is odd. (I lucked out in that my lungs are pretty easygoing. My pancreas is stupid though. But it knows how to do insulin! Thank you pancreas! ...i'm being extremely dorky. Stopping!)

Also also, oh man your turkey tips make me drool. I must copypaste and save those. ♥ Thank you!

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tofuknight
2008-11-30 03:07 am UTC (link)

*giggles* Genetic fail-velcro! *snorts*

I'm glad your pancreas can do insulin! Not being able to sucks. Silly pancreas.

Also, I am now imagining a little cholera bug (a la those adorable little plushies) going down your intestines: "Do do doo... ah! Intestines! I can attatch! Yay!" *snuggles up to intestines and is REPELLED* "Ack! Oh no! Alas! Well... maybe that was just a bad spot. I'll try again." *snuggles up to another part of intestines. Is again REPELLED* "Noooooooooooo! A CF human! Woe is me!" *cries*

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	ecchaniz0r 2008-12-02 01:51 am UTC (link)
	That just made my day. ...And now I wanna buy that microbe plushie just so I can go REPEL! and toss him around my room. (Reply to this)(Parent)

beejium
2008-11-30 02:51 am UTC (link)

The post above gives the general gist of the how. Basically, it's believed that the reason CF exists in the numbers it does (when normally a genetic disease that, untreated, tends to kill the sufferer in childhood would be mostly removed from the gene pool) is that those people who were carriers for CF had resistance to cholera. So, the carriers both didn't get CF and survived the cholera epidemics... but they passed on the gene.

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	tofuknight 2008-11-30 03:03 am UTC (link)
	Ah! Like sickle-cell anemia! Thank you! (though the getting CF thing sucks, of course. D:) (Reply to this)(Parent)

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