Drying Persimmons. The seem like they are going well...!?!?!? #BitterPersimmons #渋柿 #しぶ柿 #柿 #HangingPersimmons #干し柿 #Persimmon #Persimmons #DryingPersimmons

I'm guessing the persimmon's drying process is gong well. It seemed like too much trouble to make shallow cuts all around and then (was the cutting supposed to be before or after?) boiling the fruits for a bit... The fruits hang outside for weeks, the process is probably a resilient process. Why sterilize something you're just going to hang outside for a month or two? I doubt there's a nefarious youtuber goofball conspiracy to make everything seem so complicated that people just give up and go shopping and avoid any effort whatsoever.. After a couple generations of anxiety-inducing commercials it might be relatively easy for programs to find and promote the same sort of damaging effects you read (or see) in Annie Leonard's _Story of Stuff_, Juliet Shor's _Born To Buy_, and Susan Lin's _Consuming Kids_... #DryingPersimmon #Persimmon #柿 #干柿 #しぶ柿 #渋柿

The bitter persimmon ShibuGaki しぶ柿 渋柿 are peeled and hung!! It was good to do iterative development. The first pair were touching each other after hung up on the new clothes line I put up for this endeavor. It might not be good for them to be touching, harder to dry out evenly that way I guess. But maybe it doesn't matter. But just in case I cut the string longer for the second pair, too long. But too long is easier to fix than too short so I just added some wraps and then tied off where the hemp ropes comes down off the clothes line. The top twigs came off one of the persimmons as I was trying to get hemp string around it. That persimmon had a soft spot and was kind of mushy so it wasn't a good candidate anyway. Hopefully some of it's mushiness that got onto the last pair will not disturb the tasty drying process... Somebody was watching YouTube and telling me to dip the peeled fruits into boilong water, and make cuts down and all around the fruits to sterilize them and aid the drying process... Prominent YouTubers were taking all the fun out of chopping and storing wood with all sorts of nuerotic rules. Like other commercial media success must be measured in raised levels of anxiety or something. I just piled the wood up when and where I could, the way it should get as dry as possible given our schedule and conditions. The stovepipes were fine, the stove guy said it was very nice during the first complimentary (included cleaning). Let's see if these persimmon work out as well as the stovepipe. They got a fighiting chance since I could get into it and enjoy it without all the irritating details that would have kept me from doing it at all... I wonder if the birds will eat the mushy-spot broken-twig persimmon and the peels. I was too lazy to chop the peels up for them. Later I ate a sweet persimmon 十連寺柿 from Toroku, and the good sweetness gave me the patience to chop the peels small for the bird to eat.
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Getting ready to hang out bitter persimmons. They become sweet dried persimmons in a few weeks...

Leaving a t-shaped branch on the fruit is very important. The twig is needed so you can hang the fruit out to dry. Noticing the lack of top twigs saved me from buying a big bag of the wrong kind (the sweet kind, which are great, but it's hard to get through a big bag of them before they get too mushy for our tastes...) I had just got the same size and type of clear bag a few days ago and was in a rush... We used to get little fruits off trees in a local park or along a road among mountains somewhere but haven't had as much of that sort of leisure time lately... These big store-bought ones will probably be nice too though..

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