My mini-tiny ravioli rolling pin is one of my favourite kitchen gadgets.
I pretend I'm a giant.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 10:17, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

I pulled off an epic piece of kitchen win a couple of months ago
we made our own wedding cake and rolling icing for a 30cm bottom tier is pretty challenging. Cake-makers 50cm marble rolling pin? £35. Narrow steel table leg from B&Q and angle-grind the end off? £7.

All round win. And that's even before I worked out how to slice the teir horizonally with picture wire.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 10:25, Reply)

My thoughts to that was "teir? teir? Their? There? Is Badger saying 'their' like people sometimes say 'teh' to be all cutesy with their spellings? .... OHHHHHH, teir, like a layer of cake, yeah', that is a real word".

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 10:28, Reply)

I did spell it wrong, to be fair. tier.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 10:28, Reply)

Have you seen L-Space's Heath-Robinson sous vide set-up?
That's some diy kitchen win.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 10:39, Reply)

I'm refitting one of my labs here and I'm totally fucking stealing the water bath
it's big enough for about a quarter of a pig and the digital thermostat is accurate to about .2 of a degree according to my Squirrel.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 10:46, Reply)

It's next on my list after I've built the pizza oven.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 10:49, Reply)

I've gone back to a rock and roll city life
so have no garden for making an oven. Boo. I get OK results with my electric oven at 270ish and a stone, though. Although I have to blind bake the dough rolled-out for a couple of mins before topping it. But a proper oven would be so much better.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 10:52, Reply)

I'm gradually extending the kitchen down the garden.
I'm not going to be happy until it meets the vegetable plot expanding in the opposite direction.

I've got plans to dig a wine cellar. That may require some careful domestic negotiation.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 10:56, Reply)

Blame your girls.
The eldest must be well into digging by now, right? "Ah, sorry about that .. .yeah, I mean, she was just digging a hole and I turned my back for a second, she'd put the joists in and everything. brickwork's lovely, though, right?"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 11:08, Reply)

This might work.
My original plan was to claim I was digging some serious foundations for a climbing frame. You can never be too careful. Think of the kiddies!
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 11:20, Reply)