Eggplant slices after crumbing and shallow frying.

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Crumbed eggplant This recipe is ideal for situations when you grow too many eggplants or purchase a big bargain bag of eggplant and there is more than you need for immediate use. Once crumbed and cooked the fruit shrivels somewhat and is excellent for frozen storage. It can be quicklyRead More →

Wholemeal flatbreads in oven preparing to make crisps by double baking at 110C.

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Wholemeal crisps This is a quick, simple and healthy recipe to make wholemeal crisps or biscotti from flatbreads. Many crisps for use with dips (hummus etc) are not healthy enough to match the dips on account of the salt and fat content and lack of dietary fibre. The wholemeal crispsRead More →

Sharpened teaspoon fruit scoop blade. This is an opportunity shop teaspoon that has been sharpened to form an improved cutting action when scooping flesh out of small curved fruit. A stainless steel loop has been welded to the handle so that it can be hung up on its own so that it does not run off with the other spoons.

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This is a simple teaspoon fruit scoop blade that is made as a tool to make fruit scooping easy, especially when there is a lot of fruit. Teaspoon fruit scoop blade I made this little sharpened teaspoon fruit scoop for scooping Feijoa flesh, but it can be used with otherRead More →

Pouring from hot food scoop that is made from a square ice cream bowl. The sagging of the bowl when hot helps to form an excellent narrow pouring spout for precision pouring. The bowl returns to a square shape when scooping the next portion of hot food.

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This post provides an index to find my cheap kitchen tricks that generally can be made cheaply from repurposed things, rubbish or things purchased at an opportunity shop and modified at home. Introduction to cheap kitchen tricks My tinkering with mechanical physical and chemical things for adventure activities spills overRead More →

Filter bag squeezer mad from a thin cutting board that has been folded in two.

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Filter bag squeezer This simple filter bag squeezer allows the cook to hygienically squeeze the juice out of the pulp or mush that is caught in the pantyhose juice filter. It can be used with hot or cold filtration. Previously, I have described a convenient fruit juice filter and aRead More →

Pouring from hot food scoop that is made from a square ice cream bowl. The sagging of the bowl when hot helps to form an excellent narrow pouring spout for precision pouring. The bowl returns to a square shape when scooping the next portion of hot food.

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A pouring scoop for hot food A square plastic bowl can make an excellent mess free and fast pouring scoop for hot stewed fruit, conserves, soups and stews. A bowl with a simple lip works best. The mess-free pouring scoop Simple square bowls as shown in the photo below makesRead More →

DIY device for cleanly filling freezer bags. The truncated yoghurt container holds the bag open and steady, so that the food can be quickly filled with hot food without risk of mess or spilling.

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Freezer bag filling Make freezer bag filling easy with hot or cold food in preparation for freezing as convenient serving portions. No mess or need for help and easily regulate portion size. Small freezer bags make a wonderfully efficient and hygienic way of containing feed sized portions of food forRead More →

Forever Sharp kitchen knife. A wonderful indispensable kitchen knife that makes many kitchen tasks quick and easy. I even have one in my fishing kit to fillet big fish that are too thick for my regular filleting knife. It cuts through the rib bones so easily and safely.

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A great kitchen knife A Forever Sharp Carving Knife is an indispensable and great kitchen knife. It makes kitchen tasks quick and easy, especially if you are into serious home food cooking and preservation. Get an extra one for filleting big fish. Introduction to the great kitchen knife This greatRead More →

Micro ceramic stick stove light.

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Experimental ceramic stick burner A report on an experimental micro ceramic stick burner made as an inverted J-burners. It is made from largely clay free loam soil and sodium silicate. It is configured for; natural or forced draft operation. It also was designed with an optional fussed quartz charcoal-burner glassRead More →