Knowing how to store food with dry ice is an alternative to method to help preserve your food storage. This method to use dry ice to store food is slightly more complicated than using Oxygen absorbers, but it is cheaper. Additionally, depending on your location, this method is easier to do. This is because most […]
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How to Season and Dry Your Own Wood
Wood may grow on trees, but it’s still expensive, especially for fine woodworkers in the market for high-quality lumber. Knowing how to season and dry your own wood is the answer. This is an expert’s handbook on finding, processing, seasoning, and drying your own wood. Designed with the independent crafts-person in mind, it focuses on […]
Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning
Typical books about preserving garden produce nearly always assume that modern “kitchen gardeners” will boil or freeze their vegetables and fruits. Yet Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning goes back to the future—celebrating traditional but little-known French techniques for storing and preserving edibles in ways that maximize flavor and nutrition. Translated into English, and with […]
How to Dry Peppers Using a Ristra
Ristras are now normally expensive decorative items bought at overpriced stores selling cheap crap. Traditionally they were used to both dry and store peppers in the southwest. A ristra is simple a heavy thread that has been run through the end of multiple peppers and then left out to dry. Last years peppers are […]
Kitchen DIY: Dry Milk to Whole Milk
In order to reduce rancidity to help with long term storage, almost all powdered milk is no-fat, in order to use powdered milk as whole milk in recipes, you will need to modify it slightly Because powdered milk has no fat, it is a poor substitute for cooking and baking recipes that require whole milk. […]