At my day job, we have a Bodum Santos electric vacuum coffee maker. It’s a lovely device, and given the choice between an automatic drip pot and this, I would always choose this. It’s more automatic than a press, but more work than an automatic drip. The only thing that would stop me from recommending [...]
I was at a cooking supply store today, and I noticed this package of 6 sheets of teflon coated paper for about $22.50. They were washable, but cut-able, and seemed odd. They were being marked as some kind of reusable parchment paper or somesuch, but they were nowhere near as durable as a Silpat.
I’m guessing [...]
On of the concerns I’ll have with the Kitchen Computer is how to actually measure the temperature of the various kitchen items in a way that can link into the computer. I’ve recently run across an article on a sensor for measuring temperature and how to use it. It’s not quite what I need, as [...]
I haven’t gotten to the issue of roasting coffee yet, but this is just too keen to pass up. It’s a Solar Powered Coffee Roaster, brought to us via Make magazine’s web site. Might be a bit large for home use, but still cool.
This is exactly what I’m talking about. It’s a barcode scanner that hooks up to your computer. You can use it to scan every thing that you throw away and buy, so you can keep a “running inventory” of your kitchen. It’ll make a shopping list for you so you can replenish your inventory to [...]
The Irreplaceable Cast-Iron Skillet is a great collection of information on and techniques for using and caring for cast iron skillets. I have a cast iron skillet, and I do like it, though I don’t use it as much as I think I should. I think my main reluctance is that you don’t wash it [...]
Since my new USB drive is too large to fit on my keychain, it seems that I have a space available for something new. And what I think would best fit that space is this swank touchless infrared thermometer. I haven’t tried it, but I don’t have a surface thermometer yet, and this one looks [...]
I had my first immersion blender years before I needed it. In the right hands, an immersion blender can bring a new dimension to a soup, smooth out a sauce, and generally keep you from having to go through the painstaking and sometimes dangerous task of transferring a hot, sticky liquid to a regular blender [...]
There are challenges with any style of cooking. The challenges of regular cooking, the pots-and-pans, pour-and-stir style of cooking, is mostly one of “volume of material.” There are so many methods, so many different ingredients, and such obscure terminology, that it’s difficult to get going. Trickier is leaning how to combine ingredients in a way [...]
There aren’t very many new ways of cooking that have been introduced in the past several hundred years. After the oven, things stagnated until the microwave and eventually the Easy Bake Oven and its related ilk, such as GE’s Advantium. So it’s nice when something kinda different comes along. In this case, it’s the anti-griddle. [...]
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