A couple years ago, I regularly brewed coffee with a Bodum Santos Vacuum Coffee Pot. It was a great way to make coffee, especially in the environment that I worked at the time. However, there was a flaw with the coffee pot, and it wasn’t brewing for long enough to develop the flavor that I [...]
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It’s hardly a secret, especially after Oprah told everyone to buy one, that Amazon has* an e-book reader called the Kindle. There’s a general review of the Kindle and a comparison between [...]
EcoRenovator has a post on how to make a fridge that runs on 100Wh of energy per day. It’s links to a PDF by Tom Chalko* that basically shows you how to modify a chest freezer to operate in temperature ranges.
The nice thing about the fridge is that, when you open the door, the cold [...]
Thinking back to the old Kitchen Computer idea of yore, one of the important aspects of it is being able to monitor, in depth, the temperature of, well, everything in the chain of the food. So, obviously the food itself should be monitored, the cooking environment, the cooling environment, and the resting environment. This will [...]
I have not been able to turn on the Web for the past week without seeing something about the new The Big Easy Oil-less Turkey Fryer from Char-Broil. What I hear is “it won’t catch your house on fire like a turkey fryer will” and “infrared heat.”
I will start by saying that in no way [...]
Every good food geek requires properly geeky attire when cooking. Maybe not all the time; you can’t just go getting dressed up in a lab coat when you just want to throw together some eggs and bacon, but when taking extinct animals and cooking them for pleasure and nutrition, sometimes you need a little something [...]
Remember when I said I had to stop myself from posting anything that comes across khymos.org and Ideas in Food? Apparently Make is one of those, as well, at least for their food related posts.*
However, in this case, a casual exchange on twitter prompts this one.
At the time, I just forwarded a link to an [...]
In the first part of this series, I told about my general difficulties with insisting that I be a proper cook even if I’m not a proper chef. Also that I am looking for a new knife. In the second part, I discussed the various research that I performed, and gave a few tricks for [...]
There are two new items for the World’s Most Popular Stand Mixer In The World*. I’m writing of the KitchenAid Stand Mixer, not some other mixer.
The first is the BeaterBlade. Available from Amazon, this handly little device is just like the paddle attachment on your stand mixer, except that it has some silicone bits around [...]
In Part 1 of this story, I described how my conscience is Anthony Bourdain and that I needed to spend far too much effort finding a knife. In Part 2, I will detail that effort.
First, I had to consider what I already knew about knives. I’ve been trained, briefly, on holding a knife with a [...]
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