Upcoming Guides
These are projects I've done and will be posting guides on. In most
cases I've strived to complete the project using as little specialized
ingredients or tools as possible.
If you are interested in a particular one (or any topic - I always want to learn
new things), click here to request the next one I post, or click here to sign up for notifications of new projects.
- beer
- - many methods from all grain to extract
- bread
- - using a campfire and a rock and no oven
- sorbet
- - normal kitchen ingredients and a ziploc bag, no icecream makers needed
- cheese
- - using rennet or in kitchen ingredients. 24 hour feta cheese, 15 minute mozzarella, and other aged cheeses
- mayo
- - oil, vinegar/lemon juice, and spices with a whisk.
- wine
- - fruit wines and a method to use Welch's Grape Juice concentrate to make a very decent wine.
- sourdough
- - how to create a sourdough culture without buying or ordering one online.
- fruit leather
- - like making beef jerky but with fruit using only an oven
- butter
- - make butter from cream using either mixer, blender, or tupperwear.
- ghee
- - have left over cream from making whip cream? fast way to turn it into butter and clarify in only two steps
- jewelry making
- - how to make a wax model, a mold, and cast metal into the shape you want
- soap
- - make soap from any fat/oil (animal or vegetable). great for saving fat you'd discard when trimming meat
- tent
- - build an ultra light tent. I used mine for 7 months while hiking the Appalachian Trail
- stove
- - how to take two soda/beer cans and make a stove to boil water and cook food while camping
- bookbinding
- - take free ebooks from online and print them in a way suitable for binding into a book. no special tools.
- improvised coffee filter
- - make a quick coffee maker out of a two-liter bottle
- render fat to tallow
- - how to take scrap fat/meat and purify it. make soap from scratch or a candle or moisturizer
- how to knit
- - make your own clothes and winter gear
- knot tieing
- - which knots to use for which situations.
