SWIBD got busy and left the epsoms in the oven for about 6 hours. When he took them out, the epsom salt looked chalky white like they're supposed to.
SWIBD then took a metal spatula and started scraping the epsoms into a pile in the brownie pan. When he did this he noticed that some of the epsom salt turned yellow. Why would this happen? Maybee a chemical reaction of the epsoms with the metal on the spatula?
After the drying was done, SWIBD's epsom salts weren't chunky, sticking to each other, like they're supposed to bee. Is this beecause he sprinkled the epsom salt so thin in the pan? (The epsom salt was spread just BARELY thick enough to cover the bottom of the pan, with a few places where you could see THROUGH the pan, between salts. SWIBD was thinking about having the epsom salts about 1/4 inch deep next time. Would this bee too deep? (SWIBD doesn't mind it taking all day for the salt to dry.) SWIBD briefly opens the door of the oven every half hour or so, allowing the evaporated water to escape the oven.
Now, about eating epsom salts. A little won't hurt you... but, if you eat too much (I think its a few tablespoons), then it acts as a saline laxative! I hear that its pretty effective too, cleans you right out.... EWW!
NOW you tell me...
SWIBD
drowns his food with toppings, whatever it might bee. Salt on taters or ketchup on hamburgers (Hi Unob!
). SWIBD must have eated 1/2 cup of epsoms on his taters. (SWIBD really likes his mashed taters!
) But now SWIBD has been riding the porcelin pony all day long! He nearly got bucked off one time
. ...But there WAS something good that came of it: That penny that he swallowed when he was a kid finally came out!