The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.
When I was a kid, we got to use some breakaway sugar glass prop bottles in a drama club play once, and I remember it as being so fun! We had to be careful because the bottles are expensive, but here’s a tutorial for making your own with a silicone mold and some sugar and corn syrup
Chemical and Bio-engineering student Britt Michelsen writes in about her Kryptonite candy, which uses vitamin B2 to make this homemade confection glow.
Sodas these days have too much sugar and artificial flavors. In this CRAFT Video, Becky Stern shows you how to make your own carbonated soda at home.
http://blog.stage.makezine.com/archive/2009/07/craft_video_diy_soda.html
Music is cc .shuutobi (www.shuutobi.com)
Red wine vinegar is really easy to make at home. All you need is some leftover red wine, some water, red wine vinegar mother, and a few tools. You can look for red wine vinegar at your local homebrewing shop, but mine was out, so I ordered it online. It’s basically “live” red wine vinegar which contains the bacteria Acetobacter, which eats alcohol and turns it into acetic acid, the tangy flavor we know as vinegar. This project appears as an article in CRAFT, Vol. 9 by Alastair Bland. Read more at http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/02/making_red_wine_vinegar_craft.html
Innovative edible creations abound at this year’s Gowanus Studio Space Jell-O Mold Competition, visited and co-judged by Becky Stern. More info: http://www.gowanusstudio.org/jello/
Jessica of Scrumdilly-do! shows you how to make a St. Patrick’s Day minty milkshake. I love the added chopped up pastel junior mints for fun!
Learn to use an offset spatula with some hot water to fix a cracked cheesecake in this tutorial by Bizango.
