Food & Beverage

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.

HOW TO – Make Homemade ginger ale

Professor of Biology and Chemistry David B. Fankhauser shows you how to make your own ginger ale – “Fermentation has been used by mankind for thousands of years for raising bread, fermenting wine and brewing beer. The products of the fermentation of sugar by baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (a fungus) are ethyl alcohol and carbon […]

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“Vegiforms” – Molds for growing vegetables with faces

“Vegiforms” – Molds for growing vegetables with faces

Using these molds you can grow veggies with faces on them – “Available in the form of an elf for shaping eggplant, melon, pumpkin, and squash, or the “pickle pair”, corncob or heart (makes heart-shaped cross sections when sliced) for use with cucumber, zucchini and summer squash. The molds can be used repeatedly. With zucchini, […]

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New Yahoo Group – mint tin collecting

New Yahoo Group – mint tin collecting

Chuck let us know he started a Yahoo Group for Mint Tin Collecting. From Chuck,”As of July 27, 2006, I have about 250 different mint tins, including of course the original Altoid mint tins, but also many other company’s tins. I also include in this collection tins that have gum or other candy, so “mint […]

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Altoids chocolate dipped mints – unreleased on eBay

Altoids chocolate dipped mints – unreleased on eBay

Ok Makers, we feature a lot of Altoids tin projects here on MAKE – and now you have a chance to win an unreleased new product from Altoids, if you happen to win, we’d like to do a project with the tin after the mints are consumed, heck we’ll auction the project off and give […]

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