Levi

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Oh, I just remembered this video I watched. There is this guy on youtube that does a lot of material-sciency kind of stuff using common household ingredients. One of his videos he makes a salt-based phase change material, which basically works as an icepack that freezes at around 18 degrees Celsius.

The idea is that it takes a long time for the material to melt from 18 degrees to 19 degrees so it can keep you comfortably cool if you put it in a plastic bag and wear it in a vest to keep yourself cool. If you have a cool basement, then it can pretty much re-freeze by putting it on the cold floor.

DIY Supermaterial Could Save You From Heatstroke: Salt based PCMs

Its an interesting watch.

Edit: Actually the more I think about it the more Solarpunk it seems. It requires zero electricity, and rather than cooling a whole area you only cool the people in it. Even better, you aren't trapped inside to avoid the heat, as it works outside just fine.

I usually put the bread without butter on the pan as I heat up the pan to medium. Once the bread is starting to crisp up, I turn down the heat to low, pull the bread off and crack in the egg (I usually break the yoke too). Pepper pepper pepper.

By the time i've put mayo on the bread, the egg is usually ready to be flipped. I turn off the heat and remove it from the burner, so the other side of the egg cooks off the residual heat. Then I put some saurkraut and fermented jalepeno slices on the bread, and put on the egg.

Yummy and easy. :)