Oh, Fudge!

[Catseye3]

CNN, Excerpted: "A turned-over gravestone served as the perfect surface to make fudge for a woman living in Michigan.

"The monument was discovered in August on an estate auction site after the matriarch of the family was placed in a care facility for Alzheimer's. The family [said] the gravestone was used as the hard surface to make seasonal fudge since it was made out of marble.

"The process to find the gravestone's rightful home was a long one.

"We [tried] to find any relatives to see what we could figure out what the story was from a relative standpoint or someone who could give us permission to put the monument back where it belongs, but we weren't able to find any survivors," Stanaway said.

"Peter J. Weller died in 1849 in Lansing, Michigan, and was buried in Oak Park Cemetery.

(But they dug him up and made him into Robocop. And that's the truth.)

"The gravestone had been missing for 146 years before it was returned.

More: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/24/us/gravestone-returned-after-missing-150-years-trnd/index.html

[Jolly]

Marble is good.

Most tombstones today are granite.

[Axtremus]

For longest lasting headstone (without getting into precious or semi-precious stones), use quartzite.

[Catseye3]

@axtremus Okay, but how is quartzite for making fudge?

[Axtremus]

@catseye3 said in Oh, Fudge!:

@axtremus Okay, but how is quartzite for making fudge?

Good for fudge making for the same reason it's good as a headstone. Not weatherable by water and salt in the outdoors also means low reactivity to water and ingredients in fudge. Low permeability to water in the outdoors also means low permeability to water and oil in fudge.

[Catseye3]

@axtremus said in Oh, Fudge!:

Good for fudge making for the same reason it's good as a headstone. Not weatherable by water and salt in the outdoors also means low reactivity to water and ingredients in fudge. Low permeability to water in the outdoors also means lost permeability to water and oil in fudge.

I'm convinced! From now on you are the official bauxite expert of TNCR!

[Jolly]

Don't think I'd proclaim him KOTH just yet,

I've never seen quartzite or granite used as working countertops for fudge, especially not in commercial candy making operations. They use marble. Period.

BTW, did you know fudge will set faster on a warm marble slab than on a cold one?