Whoa hold on, aluminum and steel actually CAN touch if you use a good anti-seize compound in between.

Did I used to think glass was the only way to go for fermentation? Yeah, totally. Then I had a 1-gallon pickle jar slip out of my hand and explode on the driveway. @matthew864, I bet your Tuesday would be way messier with pickle juice soaking into the concrete for a week. After that mess, I switched to those big food-grade plastic buckets with the airlock lids, and honestly, I don't miss the glass at all.

Wait, isn't that the issue where he talks about the time he lost his healing factor?

turned all crusty and still didn't peel" - that's exactly what happened with my buddy Dave's truck. He used some no-name brand tape from a flea market to patch up a coolant hose clamp on his old Accord. Thing was literally dripping green fluid when he did it. Figured it would last maybe a week until he got real parts. That tape dried out hard as a rock but held that hose together for like 18 months. The hose itself rotted away eventually but the tape was still stuck to the fittings. We had to break out the pliers and wire brush to clean it off. Sometimes the junk stuff just has that weird luck factor.

Dude, three camping chairs and a cooler full of half-eaten hot dogs were left next to my usual spot last spring. Someone just abandoned their whole setup after a party. I had to move all their trash ten feet away just to set up my telescope. Bugs were crawling all over the cooler and I could smell old mustard for the whole session. People treat these clearings like their personal garbage dumps.