Bored? Watch a sandwich go mouldy

Russinating · 14 May 2020 at 20:54

TriedandTested said:
How do you convert the original image to the well presented image that shows on the website? I see it's drawing from a photo that shows the display table etc.

Not much really. The camera is capturing RAW+JPG to a laptop connected via USB. I've got WinSCP keeping a remote folder up-to-date between the local folder and the server, uploading JPGs only. This has got contrast(1.3) applied to it via CSS and a box-shadow vignette to basically get rid of the edge of the glass cutting board that it's on; something that'll be done in post on the raw images anyway.

It's display as full page background image which is fairly standard.

You can view/any of the original JPGs and you'll see the cutting board etc. https://sandwich.jonesmillbank.com/images/DSC02267.JPG for example is the latest, just reduce the number down to 00003 for the first and any number in between for a partway one.

Russinating · 18 May 2020 at 08:58

Went to make some toast at the weekend and this was the state of the leftover bread from making the sandwich:

So yeah, I dunno. Can bread go mouldy when it's stale? Surely with more time?

I'm also worried that the LED lights may be prohibiting growth or actively killing any mould.

Russinating · 18 May 2020 at 12:01

ci_newman said:
Mould needs moisture, so likely the bread is too dry on the outside to allow spores to grow

Feek said:
Aye, I think the environment is too dry. I can't see any mould anywhere.

We've got a diffuser I could stick in there without any oils in...

Russinating · 25 May 2020 at 22:15

TheOracle said:
What bread did you use? I think McDonalds would be interested in finding out

I know right. It was just a loaf of Kingsmill from Aldi. Not sure what's happened to the bottom though, it's been sucked right in. We were planning to run it for 3 weeks until it went mouldy but looks like we'll need to carry it on...!

Russinating · 11 Jun 2020 at 17:51

Yeah, it's over. But the timelapse works. We'll likely work on the mould in post rather than going again for another 3 weeks.

The thing was rock solid and light as a feather at the end, and did actually have mould on the bottom and inside. When we dropped it on the floor (outside!) it just split into 4 like ice.