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Adoragrill
I may not need to build a yakitori grill after all.We did some banking a couple of weeks ago. The details are irrelevant, the point is, we got a free gift. The gift was a round cooler. And inside that...
View ArticleTriumph And Heartbreak, As Promised
And that post is now. Don't say I never gave you nothin'.On Saturday, I bought a grill basket from the Home Depot. It is a mighty thing, roughly two thirds the size of my actual grill. I bought it...
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Pantrification
So it's three full months in the new kitchen, and I'm still... tweaking. Oh, the core elements are all in place. Well in place. I'm comfortable with where most everything is, I can move from prep to...
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My New Best Friends
It's still been pretty slow in terms of new, creative meals or dishes. I did make a nice, improvised, brothy creamy white chicken chili this week, but I didn't measure or photograph because I was...
View ArticleThe CM Scrubber
Well, I'll be damned.So Cathy's sister sent me this... thing around Christmastime. It is a roughly three inch square of, I shit you not, CHAIN MAIL. As a D&D nerd who's spent time around SCA as...
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Thermapens. Are. Awesome.
As a practical nerd, I have... a skepticism for high end equipment. Despite my love of geare, I tend to buy the minimum necessary to meet my needs. For a long time, that's meant spending $20-$25 on a...
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Behold, Megagrillazord
I present to you... MEGAGRILLAZORD.Yes, I have made good on last year's promise. If I learned to handle the grilling part properly over the course of last summer, I could get the add-on accessories for...
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Plans Are Afoot
Plans are underway. Secret plans. This picture contains important components of those plans. Just so you know.
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The Secret Kitchen Project: The Hardware
At last, it can be revealed. The Secret Kitchen Project is, in fact, Techno-Kitchen 3000, AKA a cabinet-mounted tablet.This has been a weird, distant dream of mine pretty much since we got the house....
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The Secret Kitchen Project: The Software
So. You've stuck a seven inch Android tablet to your cupboard. What are you gonna do with it?Well, the obvious thing is recipes and research off the Internet. Chrome is fine for that.But let's say you...
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New Toys: First Quarter Edition
I had (still have), an old blender. I also have a stick blender and a weird one-cup smoothie blender I got as a gift. but I wanted a proper blender.The old blender had some things I liked. A square...
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Ice Cream Experiments: Strawberry-Basil
So, someone gave us an ice cream maker, causing us to buy an ince cream maker.Allow me to explain. Someone gave us an ice cream maker, so we had vague, distant plans to Make Ice Cream With It. Then we...
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Emotional Roller-Coaster
So, a few weeks ago, on my way back from a road trip, I stopped in La Crosse, Wisconsin, at a Shopko. We don't have Shopkos in the Twin Cities, so this was a special retail treat.But while there, I saw...
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HISMFV: Tool Acquisition
Continuing with the fall catchup theme, in, I believe, late October or early November, Costco put a four-pack of KitchenAid ceramic knives on sale for $25, normally $30.I've wanted to play around with...
View ArticleSodastream: The One Month Report
So, I've got a month of Sodastream under my belt, and the results are, well, mixed. Or at least gently shaken.First and foremost, the device does work as advertised. Take a liter of cold water, attach...
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Dorkfood DSV
Around May of last year, I believe, was when I heard about the Dorkfood DSV, a relatively inexpensive temperature controller that allowed you to use a basic slow cooker as a sous vide water bath...
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