mmmmmm…. food
Since we started buying spices in bulk at open harvest, we have looked for good spice containers. We have bought jars and other things but none seem to work out as good as we hoped. Alton Brown uses metal canisters which he attaches them with velcro. We saw similar ones at BB&B and decided to go for it. Did an uber clean on the pantry and picked out our 10 favorite spices for the jars. I hope they are air tight enough.
one foodie goodie dot com is a woot for food gadgets. So lets see one for bikes and now one for kitchen gadgets, I think I am in trouble 
I absolutely love my microplane grater. It is such a well made gadget I would not know how to make it better besides having the grip permanently molded on.
In the vid below I say it was etched by lasers. I was wrong. The blades are made with a chemical process. As you can see from their about us page. I still think the stainless is either laser cut or stamped before sharpening though.
Microplane® tools’ tiny razor-like edges are formed by a totally different process called photo-etching in which holes are dissolved with a chemical, leaving edges that finely slice instead of tearing or shredding.
I thought this was a silly product, but really like it now.
The idea came from seeing sauces in these squeezy bottles on cooking shows and I knew I needed them for the hash browns. I have hash brown making down to a science, will post about it soon. A vid post
When I am ready to flip them for the first time I used to put little bits of butter on the top before the flip. It made my hands all greasy and wanted a bit of oil in there as well. Bottle to the rescue. I mixed it 1/2 butter 1/2 veg oil and 20 seconds in the microwave and I am good to go. Works wonders for eggs and prob any other thing I need some lube for.
I made one up full of clarified butter as well for the peppercorn steaks I keep them barely filled so they nuke warm quick and I can keep it fresh. Stored in the fridge of course.
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The butcher gave us a 20 ounce chunk of tenderloin and we cut off a 7 ounce chunk for later. We making a cheatu Brion style peppercorn fillet tomight.
Theresa picked up this handi vac thingy mcbobber for us. We do freeze lots of stuff. I would of never bought this thing, but I am amazed at how well it works. Guess I will be washing there sucky ziplock bags like my mom used to di with the regular ones. BTW glad zip bags are so fricking cheap.
Ray had posted about caring for a bamboo cutting board. Apparently I was not caring for mine all that well. Theresa picked up some mineral oil and they are looking really good now.
That there is a fat separator. Strangely it is not easy to find one of these here in our fine city. I had to go to Amazon for this little fella. They did have a 4 cup version, but I figured 2 cups would suffice. We make broth from every chicken, and occasionally make beef broth as well, which this will work very well for. Last night it helped me make gravy with ease. It is pretty much a unitasker, eventhough it does have a built in measuring cup. The spout is not the easiest to clean and it is plastic. Still it works wonders.