Great sugestion on the rinds and we will definately add this to our list of things to do. In the past the vast majority of our lemon rinds went to the compost pile. I said hand squeezed cause our juicer aint electric ya gotta hand crank it. We don't add the vodka for ..... well ..er to drink a drink. In this case its for its antifreeze properties. We were afraid that much more and it would not set up enough. Rest assured we do use our lemon products to drink.