Bob wrote:

> Bob Pastorio egged Peter on:
>
>>Peter, you have an uncanny knack for picking irrelevant criteria for your
>>decisions. The whole point of this reduction, you say it to drive out the
>>excess water while retaining the other desirable elements. Why don't you
>>just freeze it. Water will freeze first. Other stuff remains liquid.
>>Maybe. Another science project. No heat involved.
>
> Oh, c'mon, Bob! You know perfectly well that a better way to remove the
> water would be to freeze the liquid in a vacuum chamber. And I'm sure that
> Peter would be willing to acquire an apparatus which would allow him to do
> just that.

I bet he'd appreciate some URL's that would offer him such equipment.
Have your people get right on that, ok?

There is already available a full range of commercial products from
vinegar concentrates (very syrupy) to spray-dried vinegar powder. This
latest exercise from Peter is reinventing the wheel to drive to the
beginning of reinventing yet another wheel.

I mean home science projects are all well and good. I do my share of
them and I suspect you do as well. But I do ask a few questions first
and adjust my thinking based on facts obtained.

Oh, well..Tis the season to be jolly and all.

Pastorio