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Anyone into this decorating/lifestyle theme? Looking for ideas. My wife is SO NOT down with it, but it is my thing, so decorating my home office this way.

Salami. This time I'm using T-SPX for the acidification culture. I'm looking for less "twang" in the final flavor. These sat in a warm area for 2 days until pH got to 4.9. These casings are called "Budello Gentile", which loosely translated means hog butthole (that's a joke). It's the last...

I've had a bunch of pepper beers over the years. Beers infused with hot peppers, jalapeno, cayenne, habanero, etc. I haven't seen any comment on them in this forum in a long time. And I've grown all sorts of hot peppers. And I've never made a pepper beer. That's gonna change this weekend. I...

So, it's been my mind a lot lately. Seems to be a fun topic for mainstream media. I'm trying to get my mind around it. What is it?: software running on computers that takes input and gives answers. Why is it in the news? big names in tech keep talking about it (Musk, Zuckerberg). Is...

She's 247 yrs old. Oldest democracy in the world. Happy birthday baby!

I love this cheese. Hoping for success. We'll see. Almost warm phase time, where it develops the holes (like swiss). I have a new curd spoon. I like it. Gets into the corners of my pot better than its predecessor.

I've made a LOT of beer with this system. Some of it was even drinkable. Some of this stuff is heavy, and some of it is HEAVY. Don't want to ship or sell anything individually, but if I don't find a buyer in the next month, I might change my thinking. I'm also gonna list this online...

I've got a garden with tons of jalapenos. I let some of them go red, then smoke them. Smoked red jalepeno = chipotle. Next stop, chipotle hot sauce. Watch this space.

My favorite sausage! I buy fresh casings from a local italian deli, and they shorted me, so I only made about 8# actually and putt the rest of the ground pork mix into the freezer. Next week I'm making a batch of my famous brats. I add frozen irish butter into the pork mix and grid it into...

Yea I know, weird. I never do. Look, I shower daily cause I'm an (very) active person. But I don't bother with my hair. It gets wet. Am I a bad person?

Watched the first episode. Based on the Targaryen family, this is 172 years before Daenerys is born. I loved it. Here's why: Production quality. They got the look of the cities right, they got the small medieval qualities right. Looked great. Acting. These are serious actors. They take...

4g milk, rennet added, shermanii added (culture for creating eyes in cheese), flocc test, 2.5x multiplier, curds cut, curds washed (whey removed, water added), stirred, curds removed into press, pressed overnight, soaked in brine wash overnight, drying now. Into cave tomorrow, age cool (50F)...

I now use a SS Brewtech 20g Mash tun, and love it. I'm thinking about converting the rest of my system to SS Brewtech. I now have converted kegs and a 30A Electric Brewing panel. I really don't NEED to go with SS Brewtech, since the mash tun would integrate fine with any other kettles, but...

One of my boys called and wanted to make cheese. He came home this past wkend and we made a few Camembert. He's preparing for interviews for medical residency and wanted some further experience in cheesemaking for talking points (he's helped me before, but didn't really pay attention to the...

This post brought to you by google :) Moriondo was born June 6, 1851. Brought the expresso machine to the masses in Italy. More here: Angelo Moriondo: The Myth of the Selfish Barista

I have a beer that I've been really excited about. Put it online in my serving fridge, and foam city. I did a bunch of things to reduce the foam, nothing worked. I was laying in bed and thought about it and wondered if there was a problem with the oring... not exactly. The dip tube flare had...

If you gottem, smokem

Haha I know, it's dumb. But these little things make me happy! I'm building a new bar in my house, and one of the things I put into it is a micromatic drip tray with spray washer and drain. I got it connected this week and it's pretty nifty. I like!