While not exactly a โkit,โ Cultures for Health has everything you need for making sourdough bread: 15 starters from all over the world, clear instructions, and a great selection of useful bread-making tools, like cookbooks, dough scrapers, bread bags, and bakerโs blades for scoring that classic ridge down the middle of your loaf. I experimented […]
To make sauerkraut, all you really need is cabbage, salt, and a jar with a lid, but you can make your life much easier with a mandoline slicer, vegetable starter culture, and fermenting crock from Cultures for Health. (A copy of Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz will only help the cause.) They carry charming crocks […]
Happy 11/11 Day! What better way to celebrate than by making lots of references to Spinal Tap and Nigel Tufnel?! By getting a kick out this baby romper created by Jennifer of The Coin Laundry, of course.
Thereโs nothing likeย prying open a jar of gleaming, homemade strawberry jam in January. This kit is a classic and contains everything you need to get started. Itโs worth it for the magnetic lid lifter alone! (How many times have I burned myself fishing around the pot for lost lids?) For smaller batches, I like steam […]
Iโve made corned beef every St. Paddyโs day for years now, and have finally perfected my cocktail of pickling spices. Turns out I could have just gotten Leenersโ Corned Beef and Pastrami Kit; theirs is just as good. The kit comes with absolutely everything you need except the brisket (including a scarily effective meat tenderizer), […]
Bacon is enjoying the limelight these days, showing up in everything from chocolate to donuts! If you really want to hop on this fat fad, brine your own. It takes a week, but is incredibly simple and delicious. This kitโs recipe book covers bacon, Canadian bacon, and pancetta. Note to the truly dedicated: invest in […]
Karol ลuszcz is studying electronics at Poland’s Gdaลsk University of Technology. I’d say he’s on-track for an impressive career. This vector-graphics laser projector, his third prototype, includes three laser modules at 650, 532, and 405 nm wavelengths (making it more of an RGV projector, really). Many parts were salvaged, for instance, from a DVD burner, a printer, and a “disco ball.”
