I’m making apple crisp and need some boiled cider, so i made my own. In the process, I observed these fun little patterns in the floaties

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    ^example i pulled from Google

    So, fyi my degree is in ecology, but my understanding is that local inconsistencies in temperature cause areas of uneven heating, so I’m certain areas the liquid is moving up, causing it to move down in adjacent areas that are cooler, which sets up little circular currents. The distribution of them, though, is pretty random.

    The visible bits are just the gunk that’s always on the bottom of cider jugs