Deep Frying in a SolSource Solar Cooker

November 11, 2016

Food, Solar, Solar Oven Summer, Videos, Water and Power

...donuts for The People! We’re also really pleased to find that we can hit deep frying temperatures with the cooker, even in November. We’ll be doing more videos about solar cooking in the coming weeks. The beignet recipe we used comes from King Arthur Flour. Note that we have a new Youtube channel. Please do us a favor and subscribe!...

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Jas. Townsend’s 18th Century Cooking

Mr. Homegrown

December 19, 2016

Fermentation, Food, Food Preservation, Recipes

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fE5KzvOZRk The recovery journey for open heart surgery involves three things: pain killers, a recliner and a flat screen television. Thanks to our new TV’s ability to access the internet, we’ve fallen into a deep and unlikely YouTube hole: Jas. Townsend and Son’s 18th century cooking videos. Jas. Townsend and Son is the most unlikely business I can imagine. They manufacture and sell 18th century clothing, cookware...

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RIP Toby Hemenway

Mr. Homegrown

December 20, 2016

Gardening, Permaculture

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...osed with pancreatic cancer and has signed up for home hospice care. He and his wife need support to pay for living expenses and caregiving. Please consider clicking on this link and donating: https://www.youcaring.com/tobyhemenway-718641. The campaign goal has already been met, but home health care is very expensive and I’m sure that more money would help greatly. Save Save...

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DIY Appliance Repair: What I did When My Dishwasher Start Button Stopped Working

Mr. Homegrown

January 30, 2017

Water and Power

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhsuRn6ysbc When, in the middle of a terrible head cold last week, our dishwasher stopped working I had a meltdown. In my worst display of “first world problem” privilege ever, I actually fell to my knees and wailed. Then I calmed down and asked Dr. Google for advice. In recent years, Dr. Google has become much more knowledgeable about the intricacies of appliance repair. Back in the dark ages, the internet only pr...

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Toggler Snaptoggle® Heavy-Duty Toggle Bolts

Mr. Homegrown

February 6, 2017

How-to

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...experience rather than write about it. Here’s Eric’s handy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b01_T0lRQY Snaptoggle® bolts work way better than the more conventional metal toggle bolts I had used previously that look like this: My hypothetical installation of a hypothetical huge-ass flat screen, thanks to the Snaptoggle® Heavy-Duty 3/16″ Toggle Bolts, went really smoothly (hypothetically). That is until I opened the medicine cabinet I instal...

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