Ep. 30 - Fire Cider

When you're feeling sick - you don't really want to do *anything* 

You want to put on pajamas, a bathrobe, or a hooded sweatshirt - and die. 

The last time I was sick, I lamented the fact that I didn't make any "Fire Cider" in advance. 

Today, we're going to talk about doing exactly that. 


Thursday 10/29/2020; Episode 30 - Fire Cider 


When you're sick, the last thing you want to do is assemble ingredients and make weird stuff.

However, those "weird" and unfamiliar recipes often times make us feel better.

Have you ever had one of those hippie friends that always made you feel better?

Today we're going to learn how to be our own heady, free range, hippie friend. 

Today, we're going to learn how to be one of those hippies.

Today, we're going to learn how to make Fire Cider.

The timing is right to do so since this takes 4-6 weeks for the infusion to "take." 

Before using any herbs, check for appropriate dosage, drug interactions, and contraindications. Information contained herein is not intended to treat, diagnose, cure or prescribe. Please consult your primary care physician regarding your specific health concerns.

Ingredients for Fire Cider

• Most Available at Upscale Grocers (Mustard Seed in NE Ohio)
• Others available on Amazon (supplementary herbal additions)

(Notes To Follow)

• Benefits of Fire Cider

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The last time I was sick, I lamented the fact that I didn't make any fire cider in advance. And today, we're gonna talk about doing exactly that. Good morning, everyone. Today is Thursday, October 29th, 2020. And this is episode 30 of the All Around Growth Podcast. My name is Rob Kaiser, and I am your host. That's right. Today we are going to talk about Fire Sider. Now, like I was saying, when you're sick, the last thing you want to do is assemble a bunch of ingredients that you may not be entirely familiar with and make weird stuff. Everything is more difficult when you're sick. However, that weird stuff and sometimes unfamiliar recipes are exactly that which makes us feel better. So today we are going to learn how to. Today we're gonna learn if your old friend Rob here remembered his medication. So we'll pause one second and I will check. Okay, luckily I did. I am getting better at remembering to put in my supplements and my medication with my lunch preps every morning. I am changing my habits and I feel pretty good about that. So, anyways, back to what we were talking about. We don't want to do things that we're unfamiliar with. And being sick is just miserable. But kind of along the same lines, have you ever had one of those hippie friends, one of those hippie types in your life, that always made you feel better? You know, the kind that always had some kind of interesting recipe or made good tea, things like that. I don't know. Uh you know the type. Well, I'm not really one of them, but today we're gonna talk about becoming our very own heady, free-range, hippie type of friend that we all know and love. But sometimes when we are by ourselves and sick, we don't really have access to that hippie friend. So we're gonna talk about learning how to be one for ourselves. And moreover, with COVID being what it is this year and it impacting our lives in the way that it has, and especially the lives of our said hippie friends, it is even more important to understand how we can become our own heady free-range firesider making hippie. So without further ado, let's dive into it today, and we are going to jump right into the discussion. Now, the timing is also right in addition to COVID this year. Um, we are kind of going into flu season, I think. All I know about flu season is basically it corresponds with the winter time or the holidays. Exactly when they determine flu season starts is a little bit beyond me. I don't really know. But um before I say anything else, I suppose I should preface this entire recording today with the idea that before using any herbs, check for appropriate dosage, drug interactions, and contraindications. Information contained within this podcast is not intended to treat, diagnose, cure, or prescribe. Please consult your primary care physician regarding your specific health concerns. That's right, friends. I am not a doctor, I am not a nurse, hell, I'm not even a very good hippie, but you know what? I'm trying to be. And without further ado, let's talk Fire Cider. Okay, now Fire Cider, I I've I've basically there's a number of recipes online. The one that I am referencing the most is from nitty-grittylife.com. I will link to that in the show notes. And I've found that most of the ingredients that we can find or that we need for Fire Cider are available at our local higher end grocery stores. Now, here in Northeast Ohio, that is mustard seed. Whatever a higher-end grocery store is in your locale, I don't know, but you'll find many of these uh ingredients there, and there are some supplemental ingredients that may not be available at your store, but they are available on Amazon. And some of the ingredients are as follows, and I have added these to my Instacart cart this morning because my priority time this morning was going to focus on health, and I thought that this was an opportune moment to capture what I was doing in my life, share it with you, and have some content available and on the ready that was applicable to living a healthy, positive, and beneficial life. In this case, with regard to our own health and well-being. I think that with that said, well, passing comment, I may look into seeing if I can get Instacart as a sponsor for the show, and uh see if I can't offset some of the show costs with that. I digress. Back to the ingredients of Fire Cider. We've got raw apple cider vinegar, ginger, horseradish, garlic, orange, all right, uh, onion, and what else do we have here in the firesider? Jalapeno pepper, honey, and then there are some additional ingredients that I will likely pick up on Amazon in dried or powdered format, at least some of them. And some of those are going to be um turmeric, which actually the root is available at our local mustard seed. And if you can find the fresh root, I would advise doing that with certain things like ginger, horseradish, turmeric root. I think this recipe is going to be better if we can use the whole root instead of something else. But some herbal additions that I will be buying on Amazon or elsewhere to supplement to this will be a astrogalus root, which I'm not familiar with, but is apparently an adaptogenic herb that helps your immune system recognize and fight off those nasty, nasty foreign entities. Um echinacea root that may be available locally. I think it's unlikely, but uh rosemary thyme and black pepper are also additions to the recipe, but um that might be an opportune time to harvest some of the herbs outside and bust them all up in a mortar and pestle with some black peppercorns. Alright, so I'm not gonna get into the whole recipe here, but basically it's a preparation of everything that I mentioned, sliced finely or mashed up a little bit, and then stuck in the apple cider vinegar to infuse. All right, and I didn't really even know this because when you look at the article, when you look at the article of you know the benefits of fire cider on nitty-gritty life, you see this um it's like a flip-top mason jar with a with a gasket and everything, all the ingredients are in there, and and what that is apparently is that's a photo of the infusion, I presume, because after reading this article in full, it looks like um it looks like all that stuff is strained out, and then the the leftover remaining ingredients that were infused into the apple cider vinegar are kept and maybe dried or used as a seasoning, I don't know, but this is a fascinating recipe, and I'm half tempted to so and then apparently you take all right. Hold on, let me, I'm getting ahead of myself. Once you've got this infused, you know, creation, this infused vinegar, you strain that out and then add honey to the vinegar itself. And as far as I can tell, that is your fire cider that is then bottled and taken in small doses, you know, a couple teaspoons, couple tablespoons, whatever tickles your fancy, and um that's it. So that may become a replacement for my morning tonic since it is uh strong and pungent. We will see. I'm not entirely sure. But the other thought that crossed my mind while I was doing this this morning was that I could cost this out, see how much it would cost to make, but then try to sell some of it. Now, selling this kind of thing is going to be a little bit weird. I don't think my parents would feel comfortable with me selling it under the farm name because of some of the ingredients used and due to the fact that it's a bottled product and we don't have a bottling license yet. However, this is very similar to the boy, your headlights are bright, mister. Um and I think that is I don't know who that is, but my god. Those headlights are awful. Um yeah, I don't think that mom and dad would be real jazzed about me having this firesider available for sale. Um, but I'm not opposed to selling it personally on Facebook Marketplace, much in the same way that people have elderberry syrup available and other things. I think with a basic label, um, or quite possibly no label at all. Just people buying what they have and buying it in small bottles. Um, I found one pint slip top bottles, I think they were 11 ounces, um for a little over a buck a piece. So again, you know, if I cost this out and then, you know, sell this firesider for I don't know, however many bucks a pint, it it might be beneficial, or initially I might label it and give it away as gifts and see if people are even interested in it. And if so, I will oh, yikes. And if so, I will continue to uh make it then maybe that's a better idea. You know, that's that's kind of the saladin-esque approach to well, a lot of things really. But the chickens specifically, um, when I remember you know reading some of his approaches, that you raise some, you give you give some away, and the next time around those become your first and most likely most loyal customers. And I think that that's probably some material worth reading again. Oh yikes. This winter, in an effort to regroup and figure out what's going on with my life and how exactly I wish to proceed in it. So, anyways, kind of all over the map, right at the end there to wrap things up on this morning's commute. Backing in here is going to be mildly dangerous again because of the dark. And um, so bear with me one moment as I wrap up here for us today. So, Firesider, that's what we've got. Um, that's how we make it. Detailed instructions and directions are available in the links online from Nitty Gritty Life. And hopefully you found some value in that. Hopefully, when you get sick this winter, you find yourself in a position where you've done some things proactively in order to prepare for being sick so that you can rest up, heal up, and get back to it sooner than later. Um that's what I'm gonna try to do this weekend. Make my first batch of fire cider, and I will let you know how it goes. With that said, have a great day, everybody. Try to make someone else's day great as well.