What else do you make at home that most people buy commercially?

[shoreman]

Good post.

Mostly around food - I grow it- fruits and vegetables, seed saving. We make 90% of our food from scratch, food prepping each week so we don't buy convenience crap. Sourdough bread, kombucha, lots of sauces, etc. Some woodworking.

Heat with wood for most of the winter from wood on our property, I'd consider that something most people buy commercially.

 

[JimRausch]

Beer,fruit wines, mead, cider. Bread. Jams- blueberry, strawberry, blackberry. But probably my maple syrup is the unusual one. I tap about 20 trees and boil down enough sap to make about 1 gallon of syrup. Give most of it away. And now I know why syrup is so expensive to buy......

 

[Robert65]

Beer,fruit wines, mead, cider. Bread. Jams- blueberry, strawberry, blackberry. But probably my maple syrup is the unusual one. I tap about 20 trees and boil down enough sap to make about 1 gallon of syrup. Give most of it away. And now I know why syrup is so expensive to buy......

There's a lot of commercial maple sugaring in this area, and most of the producers now use RO filters to initially remove a good bit of water, to reduce fuel costs in boiling it the rest of the way down. It's still mighty expensive. And I always had a romantic idea of the lengthy boiling process as a sort of social event. Very cool that you make it.

 

[lump42]

We grow and can/freeze vegetables. We're in a new house so, I'm in the process of replanting an orchard. My wife regularly bakes cakes and pastry and is getting in to breads. We purchase whole animals from local farms and process the animals, not necessarily growing/producing my own but a bit different then standard commercially available. We also grow our own culinary mushrooms (oysters, shitake, and lion's mane).

I crochet hats, scarves, mittens, blankets, and toys. I make my own frames and matte for pictures.

I've built computers in the past, but I don't have time for that anymore. You can't drink a computer so beer won out.

 

[Rob2010SS]

For me, it's really brewing and reloading ammo with an occasional foray into jerky making, when I feel ambitious.

Brewing has really taken over for me though. I actually just sold a lot of my reloading equipment but kept the bare minimum, just in case.

 

[Navy Guy]

I build my own speakers and do some other random woodworking like tables and shelves. My wife and I also have been doing our own pizza and pasta from scratch (dough and sauce). It's not something that I make but I also cut my own hair (not just a buzz cut) for the last 4 years and no one has been able to tell.

 

[Velnerj]

I pick mushrooms in the forest (edible kind not the psychedelic kind). I cook almost everything from "scratch" from pancakes to BBQ sauce to macaroni and cheese to pizza etc.

My wife is very crafty with paper crafts, sewing, photography etc. She also makes sour dough bread.

I think a lot of it comes from. The fact I live in a foreign country (different than the one I grew up in) and many of the things I enjoy back home are not available here. So necessity is the mother of invention.

I'm looking to getting into yogurt making and kefir. My daughter consumes a lot of that stuff. Any tips?

Lastly, I also made my own brewing calculator/recipe builder.

 

[Moose_MI]

Just started cheese making but I’m also a long time BBQ enthusiast. Many other food interests that i cant wait to pursue when time allows

 

[TheMaineBrewGuy_OG]

Brewing, Kombucha, and other fermentation consumables are always going at my house. Kombucha is an easy one that doesn't take much equipment or money.

 

[Jokester]

I build my own speakers and do some other random woodworking like tables and shelves. My wife and I also have been doing our own pizza and pasta from scratch (dough and sauce). It's not something that I make but I also cut my own hair (not just a buzz cut) for the last 4 years and no one has been able to tell.

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Ooooo audioporn …. yeaaaayyyyy.
That a phillips/Marantz soft dome in those in wall ones ? I have a few of those in various speakers, and a smaller version was in a few other brands made by onkyo and weirdly one branded RCA.

Cool.
Srinath.

 

[Rodent]

besides brewing, some of my favorite homemade foods include dry rubs and brine for smoking meats, my own sauces for BBQ, ice cream, pizza on the grill, salsa from what I've grown in the garden, and pressed cider

 

[Edward's Beer Cellar]

A lot us us must share the same afflictions.

Me:
Beer and brewing equipment
Maple syrup
Jelly
Ice Cream
Jerky
Smoked meats and rubs
Sausage
Dandelion wine
Biscuits (from scratch)


Wife:
Quilts
Dolls/stuffed animals
Bread
Pizza
Bourbon Balls

 

[Dave Sarber]

Hmm. Well, I also roll my own smokes. Reload ammo, and build my own rifles, mostly from old Mauser actions, but sometimes Remington 700 actions. Raise chickens for eggs and meat. Grow grapes, citrus, sweet potatoes. Build all my own furniture. Make sausage, and a lot of canning, mostly chickens and beans. My yard gets overrun every year with wild mustard, so I'm looking at making my own this year. I used to do a lot of silversmithing and gem faceting, not so much the last few years. Do all my own wrenching on motorcycle, truck and car, and household appliances. Lots of home improvement projects, just finished a major master bath renovation this last spring, kitchen is next. Naturally, I brew some killer beer, and will start growing my own hops this spring, but I'll continue buying the malts!

 

[RainyDayBrewer]

I guess there is a lot of interest overlap.

 

[glenn514]

Hmmmm, lemme think. Used to make my own laundry detergent...worked as good as any commercial product at a fraction of the cost. Nowadays, I make my own "ranch" salad dressing, my own red seafood sauce for shrimp, my own tartar sauce especially for fish, and the usual bread and pizza crust dough. Now, if I could just figure out a way to print my own money...

glenn514

 

[firerat]

Beer, but yeah.

I used to grow mushrooms. Some you can buy commercially.

I like making condiments like mayo, ketchup, bbq sauce, etc.

 

[davidabcd]

Pizza from a recipe my wife's grandmother invented many years ago.

That's way too intriguing! Maybe you could post it on the homemade pizza thread? Or a private message; I can keep a secret.