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What`s for dinner: Baked Sand! :D Yum!

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Justin S., Sep 10, 2014.

  1. Sep 10, 2014 #1
    Justin S. Pleasant Hill

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    Ingredients:
    50lbs of Wet Aragonite Sand (prepared in advance)
    Directions:
    Preheat oven to 400 degrees
    Layout foil on several baking sheets and spread sand evenly. Place in oven until satisfied.
    Preparation:
    Bathed it in bleach yesterday, rinsed it five times, added Seachem Primer and let soak overnight, rinsed 5 more times, let soak in primer for 6 hours..... Dumped out water..
    Note: My girlfriends not around tonight or I think I'd be scolded for misuse of the oven, forced to clean the oven, then forced to bake a cake! Haha[​IMG]
     
  2. Sep 10, 2014 #2
    mpivit Dubuque

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    Why? I never heard of baking sand.
     
  3. Sep 10, 2014 #3
    jazzybio13 Ames

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    Bleach followed by thiosulfate would have done the trick just fine. If your trying to sterilize the sand. We do it here all the time, to wipe a tank before babies or cultures are introduced.

    Better question though...Why did you need to wipe the sand? Got something nasty?

    I can only assume your baking to dry?
     
  4. Sep 10, 2014 #4
    Justin S. Pleasant Hill

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    The sand came out of another system, it sat in a bucket for a week, then in a bucket with a lid on it for another week: when I opened it.. It was a bomb in my kitchen... It was loaded with bristle worms, snails, etc. The ghastly smell when I opened that bucket could only be arrested quickly by bleach. I wasn't going to deal with the smell otherwise. The sand is for my Berghia Breeding project. It's going in the aiptasia breeding tank but I don't want to risk stow aways of any kind. Baking was to dry (I also increased temp to 500 degrees).
     
  5. Sep 10, 2014 #5
    jazzybio13 Ames

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    I can only imagine the smell... ok not really, I've totally smelled it before... no imagination needed. /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default//emoticons/wink.gif

    good luck.
     
  6. Sep 10, 2014 #6
    Sponge Marshalltown, IA

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    I would have baked the cake first!/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default/emoticons/hehe.gif
     
  7. Sep 11, 2014 #7
    jazzybio13 Ames

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    Mmmm. Cake... Now I'm down for that!!!
     
  8. Sep 11, 2014 #8
    Justin S. Pleasant Hill

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    Haha! I can't decide what's more appealing between freshly baked sand and cupcakes. How about both, but definitely not in the oven at the same time! How about these? Lol. Happy baking..
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