Deephaven

Wondering what heights for counters you find ideal for what tasks. Mulling over designs myself at the moment and had never seen recommendations that were different for kneading, cutting etc. After reading that in this thread I searched the forum to no avail.

Just used my foodsaver a bunch this week....which makes me want this. Not a ton of positive or negative responses here. I know it's small, but for daily tasks it seems rather interesting.

First post out of the "welcome" forum, but made one of my favorite meals. Tenderloin, guajillo sauce, anejo mashed, bok choy, homemade corn tortillas. Saturday is always a fun cook with the family day. My 13 year old made the tortillas, 11 yr old made the sauce....although it took 5 times as long to help them as it would to make it....still nothing I'd rather do. Definitely no originality in plate but have to say it tasted great. Thanks Rick, had it at Frontera and it made it into our family rotation.

The four of us drink probably 10L+ of carbonated water a day. For fun I either buy fruit syrups from TJ Maxx or make my own. It's the only "soda" my kids ever get. Of course they think squeezing a lemon in some is better than a sprite or the like. House beverages are coffee, beer, wine, and carbonated water pretty much. Have a tincture bottle for making flavored vodkas/rums etc as well. Probably not the right word for it, but you can open the bottom or top so you can fill it with fruit and then liquor. Way better than the preflavored stuff at the liquor store.

Awesome. Going to go research coco / drip systems. Great to know on the Yu Choy as well. Something we regularly eat, but requires that I run to one of the non-local Asian stores to grab them. Are the curry leaf and kaffir indoors as well?

Ha, have had the same problems. 5x5" fencepost NFT setup as well here too. Currently it is dry as we are moving out for a remodel, but will rekindle it the instant I move in. Lettuce at the farmers market was $7 a head this am. After 6 months they are a bear to get out of the hole. I need to create some calendar to cull them more often. I'd like to add tomatoes to a secondary source. Probably peppers and cucumbers as well as I think those three can "share" nutrients.

What level of carbonation does that give you? ie, I like it to HURT, lol.

Currently mine is literally a C02 tank in my basement with copper piping up to under my sink. I have 2L soda bottles in the fridge that I then use a bike pump attachment to fill with C02. (removing 1/3 of the fluid and air first) A big shake and boom soda. Plan is an ice maker with a cold plate, carbonator in the basement and a tap when we remodel. Every "system" I find is horribly expensive so sourcing each component separately and building my own. Will mate with my 20gal turbo charged reverse osmosis. Can thank Covid for that. Built a hydroponic garden to grow herbs and lettuce when the grocery stores were out of stock/hard to shop. Needed a lot of water I could control the minerals and pH without chlorine so the easiest with my minerally well was RO.

Seltzer for me came out of an addiction to soda pop years ago. Quite that for sparkling water as I love bubbles of all types. The one thing I don't like though is sweet, so at least that bug I bit off a long time ago. Thanks for the welcome.

Constantly searching for new dishes, different cuisine's or different tools to make what I do better. Current kitchen is filled with fun to make things from around the world. 2.5mm copper pans from Deherellin, BlueStar Range, real broken Electrolux double oven - POS omg, Viking C4 Komodo, Joe Jr Mini, Ooni Pro and a redneck soda stream. Addicted to bubbles, trying to figure out custom seltzers atm and design and on tap soda stream, and switching to induction after some fun testing at the Wolf Distributor. ....which leads me to needing some new pans. Definitely one of the topics I am eager to explore here. Contemplating Falk Copper Coeur, Demeyere Atlantis, deBuyer Prima Mater, and Fissler for different pieces. Wish there was a local store with the Falk/deBuyer, but totally willing to travel to Belgium, France, Italy to get a good deal and make a memory shopping. Have to go to Germany for work come November so might shop then. Surely don't need to have that conversation here as a thread is more logical, but glad to have any input any time.