What preps are you doing this week? Part 3.

[nickdutch]

Found a website of someone who has made a cheap DIY velomobile So maybe my mad inventor idea wasn't so mad after all?

http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/p ... vpfair.htm

and what with those ideas and maybe one of these:

http://www.hpvelotechnik.com/produkte/s ... dex_e.html

It might actually happen.....

Its just a question of selecting the best affordable recumbent trike to do it with, and ten the mad inventing stuff can begin

[featherstick]

Found a website of someone who has made a cheap DIY velomobile So maybe my mad inventor idea wasn't so mad after all?

http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/p ... vpfair.htm

and what with those ideas and maybe one of these:

http://www.hpvelotechnik.com/produkte/s ... dex_e.html

It might actually happen.....

Its just a question of selecting the best affordable recumbent trike to do it with, and ten the mad inventing stuff can begin

There's a HUGE homebrew velomobile community out there. Some go so far as to build their own recumbents before velo-ising them.

[MissPrep]

You can download free pdfs of the mad millie cheese kit instructions/recipes from their site
http://www.madmillie.com/MORE/Downloads.html
I do have a couple of books on cheese, but honestly so far haven't found what I would consider 'the book'.
If you keep pdfs they are probably worth adding to your collection.
It's not worth buying copies as they are just little booklets printed on A4 & folded in half.

They have different names in AUS/NZ, so the cheddar is in the Artisan Cheese Kit pdf (it's called Hard Cheese kit here)

The speciality kit is Gorgonzola, Brie, Camembert etc... although you can't buy that kit here, all the others are aimed at beginners but that one is labelled intermediate.

The kit I got (Italian Cheeses) has just been delivered.
Best before dates are all 12/2017 on everything it's relevant for but have now realised I need to get some Mesophilic Starter culture as it's not in this kit (it's in all the others) & I wanted to have a go at making Cottage cheese now it's looking like we might get a summer sometime soon.

Now just have to wait for my grocery delivery & I can have a go at making some Mozzarella & Ricotta
Next week, Mascarpone with a bit of luck.
So glad I'm not trying to prep for a diet.

[Ahastyatom]

Myself and the OH have bought our first home, so have been using up our preps while we get settled. We now have a bigger house, so I have decided to take up home brew. We have 40 pints if cider and 6 bottles of wine brewing away .

I do have this cheese making kit, so now my kitchen is bigger than a postage stamp I will try my hand at making cheese.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Artisan-Che ... making+kit

[jansman]

Good luck in your new home. Cannot beat homebrew, it is an honourable hobby! Beer is my thing.

[Briggs 2.0]

I thought I'd share a photo of the siphon system I have settled upon in my IBC aquaponics project. I had tried a bell siphon and an Eze Tee siphon but I've settled upon an external U siphon. The first part of the U is at a 45 degree angle to get the water level right in the bed. It's been a lot of trial and error to get to this point and this has been running for three days now without fail. One of my first designs was to have a second 45 degree bend to complete the U shape but I found this did not siphon, so I tried a 90 degree bend and this does siphon but I do not know why, I just know it does.



I may post a new thread on aquaponics. It won't be a how-to, there's a multitude of videos on the intertube offering how-to advice, I'll focus on how-NOT-to and list the trials and errors I have overcome on the way. As you can see in the photo there are some holes in the lower tank, these were too high for the siphon to work effectively so I had to lengthen the vertical section to maximise the siphon effect. It really has been a case of try it and see what works.

The upside will be that if/when I do IBC number 2, I will be able to learn from my experience and obviously share info with anyone on here who is thinking of doing this sort of project. If you're already doing this, then perhaps we can share our knowledge.

Briggs.

[Stasher]

Myself and the OH have bought our first home, so have been using up our preps while we get settled. We now have a bigger house, so I have decided to take up home brew. We have 40 pints if cider and 6 bottles of wine brewing away .

I do have this cheese making kit, so now my kitchen is bigger than a postage stamp I will try my hand at making cheese.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Artisan-Che ... making+kit

This all sounds fab and exciting, congratulations!

Now, this is going to make me sound thick I know, but do you need unpasteurised milk? ALso I assume you need rennet, is this just the liquid you buy from the chemists?

[DustyDog]

Not sure if this can be considered a prep, but learnt how to sharpen my chainsaw chain by hand, instead of the machine as usual, in case all the juice goes off, just a pity i have no more wood to saw up.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Spent the past 2 days making a new shed base at Mrs Andy's shifted the second hand free slabs 12 at a time to her house... knocked off the old cement (which made a good sub base) then layer of sharp sand and building sand mixed to cover the sub base.. put up levelling shuttering and pegs laid DPC membrane then a 1to6 cement to sharp sand screed then laid the 42 slabs onto that dry... used a dry sand cement mix in the joints brushed in.. then lightly misted with water to skin the top ...


the next 2 days of rain will do the rest for me to dampen and solidify the cement mix (for once i want rain on a bank holiday


Next part is to build a shed when i sort out the timber,,...

[jansman]

Not sure if this can be considered a prep, but learnt how to sharpen my chainsaw chain by hand, instead of the machine as usual, in case all the juice goes off, just a pity i have no more wood to saw up.

It certainly is a prep.I sharpen mine that way all the time.In case it all really went wrong, do you have a bow saw and spare blades?