The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.
Having lived my entire life in Minnesota, my ability to handle spicy food is lacking. Although I love it, it does not love me and the way I feel the day following a spicy meal is bad enough to make it not worth the bother.
Make: Live brewing friends Douglas Amport and John LaPolla have finally opened their brew supply and brew-on-premisis shop in New York City, called Bitter and Esters (formerly City Brewshop). They’re still installing equipment but are open weekends from noon-7pm and are holding brewing classes starting July 10. John and Douglas helped me pick out ingredients […]
This “golden egg” is new to me, but looks very cool. Instructables user, ATTILAtheHUNgry, shows how to use a simple length of tights or nylons to scramble an egg while it’s still inside its shell and then hard boil it. The result is a surprising and fun snack!
I’m not sure how I’d feel having these little guys on my grill, but you can’t deny they’d be conversation pieces at your next BBQ. [via Retro Renovation]
Ten years ago, over a hot 4th of July weekend, a few of us “alpha geeks” were hanging out on Rob Flickenger‘s porch in Sebastopol, CA testing out homebrew microwave antennas when we stumbled upon the fact that you could squeeze about 12db out of an empty Pringles can and some miscellaneous hardware. At the […]
From all of us at MAKE: Happy July 4th to all those celebrating American Independence Day. Please sear your dead things or tofu dogs with care and practice your pyrotechnics with all caution. Be safe, have fun.
This might just be my weekend cooking project! Jessica at Childerhouse shares a very detailed and easy-to-follow process for making yogurt with a heating pad and an insulated cooler. It’s so much easier than I thought, and I love the idea of being able to control how much sweetener goes into it.
