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I'm going with confit on this one. You can then turn them into pork cheek rillettes. Delicious

Thanks so much - I took the direct approach and nipped out to get an auger. After much pushing, shoving and wiggling the blockage was removed and problem solved. Lesson learnt.

Yes, this was an extremely silly thing to do but I've managed to block my drains by absentmindedly pouring alginate solution down the sink. We live in a hard water area so the alginates have reacted with the lime in the water and created a rather nasty jelly in my drains. My bad. Once you've stopped pointing and laughing, does anyone have any ideas about how to fix this? It might just stop me from sleeping on the sofa for the next six months. thanks in advance

Thanks guys. We do live in an extremely hard water area and I didn't even think about how the chemical content of the water would affect the algin bath but it makes perfect sense. I'll try it with bottled or softened water to see what happens. And leaving the bath overnight really helps too.

Hi everyone, I'm relaitvely new to this MG lark so please forgive any seemingly idiotic comments. Recently received the Spherification kit from Texturas and I've been having a few issues with the reverse sph. method. The algin bath appears to be very thick indeed, even when using less algin than the instruction/recipe book suggested. I tried making some espresso spheres (strong espresso mixed with gluco and a little xantana) and the liquid just spread over the surface. I then tried injecting the liquid under the surface of the algin bath which worked a little better but when the time came to lift them out, the algin bath stuck to the spheres and prevented them from coming free from the gloop. Any ideas? Thanks. a