mystery texture

[piranha]

feel free to guess. :)

the *poing* booked zir flights for the annual visit today. april 11th. yay! *bounces*.

Comments

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Looks like a blanket. (Or rice. But way less likely.)

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

it does look like fabric, doesn't it. but it's not. completely not.

also not rice, though that's actually closer.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

I'm going to guess angelfood cake on extreme closeup.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

no, but now i want to get some angelfood cake. :)

it is a food, though. of sorts. not in and of itself, but used in food.

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

I guess some kind of fabric.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

nope, though it does look that way to me as well.

[pameladean]

Rice noodles? (Cooked.)

P.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

no. though it is food. kinda. used to make food.

[prairierabbit.livejournal.com]

Sheep's wool?

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

not even close. :)

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

high-tech dishrag?

high-tech dishrag

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

that's clearly what it should be. alas...

re: mystery texture

[betonica.livejournal.com]

Actually, it looks like an electron micrograph to me. So, way, way, way close up. But I don't imagine you'd be using one of those machines.

Seitan? But I wouldn't imagine that would be white.
I don't think it's the cut surface of a potato.

It reminds me of oatmeal, too, but I'm sure it's not. Quinoa? That doesn't seem right, either.

Re: mystery texture

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

nope, that would be cheating. just my camera's macro setting. nope, neither seitan nor potato. but food-related!

[beaq.livejournal.com]

It looks like some kind of sea animal tissue, or very clean intestinal mucosa.

[lynn-massa.livejournal.com]

My guess is "pre-rennet"

pre-rennet

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

it isn't, but i am wondering what "pre"-rennet is, since rennet is an enzyme complex, or rather, a set of different ones depending on whether we're talking animal, vegetable, fungus, microbial. stomach lining sorta kinda looks like this IIRC.

the guesses are making me want to take pictures of all of these things. :)

Re: pre-rennet

[lynn-massa.livejournal.com]

yes, stomach lining was my guess. not exactly food, but used to make food.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

it does look like that, the latter especially. but it isn't.

[eub.livejournal.com]

Parts of it look like Penrose tiling if I squint.

[alex-m-nemeth.livejournal.com]

Tofu :-)

[1ginko.livejournal.com]

Did you ever reveal what this is? I remembered this today, and scrolled back until I found it because I could not get it out of my mind. It is like a mind-worm of ramen noodles bugging the heck out of me.