Chapter 1: What is the story behind the viral pickled eggs recipe?
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Kalyani Saxena, producer of the show Endless Thread, inside of which we are right now. Yes. The show Endless Thread. We're inside. We're in the main frame. We're in the main frame of Endless Thread. Yes. And today we're talking about one of the most recognizable shaped items of food. What's to say about it? Ovular? Ovular, yes. Round. Kind of bouncy?
Yes.
No, I would not describe. Depending on what stage we're talking about. What state it's in? What state it's in. Okay, we're talking about eggs. Are you an egg woman? I really do need to disclose that I'm not an egg lover. Okay. But I'm not an egg hater. If an egg tastes too much like an egg, and some people who are listening to this are going to know immediately what I'm talking about, it's done.
Like, I'm not into it. I understand that perspective. I don't share it, but I understand it. So we got an email from a listener named Scott. Have you been following the you slash, as in user, heavy tech 86 pickle saga on r slash pickling? This dude's pickled eggs and sausage recipe has taken off and lots of folks are making it and posting. Might be a rabbit hole to investigate. Peace.
Let's start with HeavyTech86. As near as I can tell by creeping on his Reddit posts, his Reddit history, his username may give you a hint of this, HeavyTech, right? So he works in some level of like industrial work. So I know he talks about concrete slurry in some of his posts. Yeah.
He makes something called cowboy candy with his hot peppers from his garden, which is, I believe, pickled peppers.
All right.
So this is what Heavy Tech 86 is into. Just, you know, regular chill stuff about his life until you get to about a month ago from when we were taping this. And it's not actually that interesting. Like, it's not when you see this post that went viral.
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Chapter 2: Who is HeavyTech86 and why is he significant?
It's kind of art of its own thing. It really is. And now, of course, like the memes are popping up. Dad, why is my sister's name Rose? Because your mother loves roses. Thanks, Dad. No problem, Heavy Tech. I don't know.
It's just kind of fun and interesting how this one random dude's Heavy Tech 86, his pickled eggs recipe blew up and now has like changed the face of the pickling subreddit and everybody seems to be having a good old grand old time with it. Yeah. And what's interesting to me as well is like, For some people, it's all they can think about.
I mean, our editor, Meg Kramer, when we were talking about this story, said she hasn't been able to stop thinking about these pickled eggs since we first got that listener email. She hasn't even seen the nice pictures of the beautiful pickled eggs recipes. She just saw the original picture, and she couldn't stop thinking about it.
And I can't say that that has been my experience, but I think that there's something really... I don't know. So much of the Internet is so heavy and the algorithm often like really favors content that elicits either like strong anger or like mostly strong anger. And so it's kind of cool to see this subreddit be taken over by an idea for something delicious that everybody is.
I'm assuming delicious that everybody's enjoying and everybody's having fun with it. And I don't know. I think that's that's kind of great. It's nice. Has heavy tech responded or, like, come to rule their new kingdom? Like, where is heavy tech in this? Heavy Tech's around. Heavy Tech's poking around. But Heavy Tech's not.
Like, I think it went viral enough and Heavy Tech is like a working human who apparently has kids.
A benevolent ruler.
Yeah. Yeah, he made his pickled eggs. He's doing his thing. No big deal. I did reach out to him. I have not heard back. And if I do, I will report back. But that's my story about pickled eggs. But you got a story about pickled eggs of some kind, right? Yeah. I have a story about eggs in liquid. Does that qualify as pickling or braising? Find out after the break. Yeah, why not?
Why not?
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Chapter 3: What are Mayak eggs and why are they popular?
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It's technically feasible. That's a very simple question. Will we get there? Will it all be deployed? We're going to see. I just want to add in there that, yeah, we've talked a lot about the difficulties for shipping in getting to net zero. This is not the only thing that's going to be going on. Aviation is seeking to do the same thing, maybe even faster.
And the other uses of petroleum are all transitioning quickly. You may think, and in some ways that makes the problem even bigger. There are other ways that it makes it easier. Some of the fuels that are used for shipping are very similar to those used for aviation. So as infrastructure gets built out, shipping can benefit.
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