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There is an assumption about milling that the word itself encourages, and it is wrong in an interesting way.
The assumption is crushing: two heavy stones pressed together, grain…
Every other preservation method makes food hostile to spoilage organisms. This one removes them entirely and then locks the door. Here are fifteen consequences.
1. The Order Is Seal First,…
Cocoa butter can set in several different ways, and only one of them produces chocolate that behaves the way people expect. Almost everything below follows from that. Here are fifteen.…
Dry heat does two things to spices, nuts and seeds: it releases what was locked inside them and it creates compounds that were never there. Here are fifteen.
1. Moisture…
There is a useful question to ask about any everyday object: what did people do before it, and did they think they had a problem?
For most tools the answer…
The problem is almost never a lack of good places. It is deciding between them while hungry, which is the worst possible condition for the task. Here are ten.
1.…