Most other recipes say 15-20 drops, but I just like it a little stronger.
Keep in mind that you don’t need to heat under the vanity or the bath tub when you’re making your calculations about square footage!.It may have been unnecessarily time-consuming, but at least it was kinda pretty, right?.
Here you can see how the wires fit right into their holders.. Once the wire was in place and hooked up to its special thermostat on the wall (another added expense with all different types of kits), we were ready to lock it in place!.Here’s where things got a little nuts.. You want to pour enough self-leveling cement so that the wires are covered and protected.You don’t want any exposed wires because you may end up slicing through them or even just their outer casing later when you’re laying your tile and that will cause the whole system not to work.
a tragedy for us cold-footed folk.. To get ready for “cement day”, we prepared the room by making sure that the cement would run only where we wanted it to when we poured it into place.. We made cardboard frames to fit inside the ducts for our floor vents and we put plumber’s putty around the tub plumbing and the toilet drain.. A very easy, but necessary step!Once the cement was all set, we would be able to remove our cardboard and our putty and have perfect holes for these fixtures in the room.. Then it was time for the cement.
The moment of truth.
, rather, because it took a bit of time.Adding salt at this point can turn them rubbery, so you want to get a really deep brown color on them first before you add anything else.
After a minute or so they should look like this:.Keep the heat turned up high and the sizzle going!
The mushrooms will let out a bit of liquid as they cook and you want that liquid to cook off almost immediately so they don’t steam and become all bland and boring.Keep going until they get to this point of brown-ness:.
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