| September 2010 |
Home-Gro gourmet mushrooms |
| Home-Gro™ is a DIY growing kit for producing your own oyster mushrooms at home. Off-the-shelf, it contains everything needed to harvest up to 1 kg of exotic gourmet mushrooms. |
Simply activate by removing the perforated tab and making two small slits in the bag. Mist with water as often as you can. Twice a day is sufficient and you can even skip mistings. Your weekend away... |more| |
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Build a brick braai in a weekend |
Basic brickwork skills will enable you to build this good-looking braai in a single weekend.
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In fine weather there’s little to beat a meal cooked outdoors – especially when it’s cooked over an open fire. Not only does the food taste better; an outdoor meal also offers us the opportunity to... |more| |
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Cooking with Joule |
| How induction hobs use electromagnets, conductors, resistance and high-frequency currents to fry eggs at warp speed. |
“Use Channel 7. It always cooks on 7,” chef Sean Rembold of Brooklyn restaurant Marlow & Sons says. Nearby, a cook whips up the signature Brick Chicken on one of five singleburner induction hobs. The... |more| |
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Make your own braai cart (measurements provided in inches) |
| As the Braai4Heritage event (formerly known as National Braai Day) looms around the corner – 24 September to be exact – we thought it only fitting to provide you with plans to make a portable braai cart in time for the occasion. Our rolling prep station adds style and fun to any braai. |
You've perfected your grilling technique. You've mastered the marinade. Now take your outdoor culinary skills to the next level by building our red cedar cookout cart. It's the perfect mobile staging... |more| |
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| August 2010 |
Going green – part 4
A green way to shower |
| How to save thousands on electricity and water consumption every year... |
Our fourth online article on "Going green" takes a look at how to install a showerhead flow restrictor. Shower flow restrictors are designed to lower the flow rate of any given showerhead, thereby... |more| |
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Down & dirty |
| Smart solutions to the home’s messiest problems. Haul out those workboots – we’re going in. |
1. Damp crawlspace dry-out
Cobwebbed and claustrophobic, crawlspaces are awful places to work – yet they may hold the key to improving your home’s indoor environment.... |more| |
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Reader project
Smoke it up |
One man converts a pedal waste bin into a smoker.
By Sean Woods |
John Letherbarrow is shamelessly addicted to hot stuff. In fact, unless his taste buds are on fi re and steam is issuing from his ears, he feels he hasn’t quite cracked it. So it hardly comes as a... |more| |
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| July 2010 |
Going green – part 3
Measure and reduce your carbon footprint. Here’s how... |
| By Hestelle Robinson
A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activities have on the environment, and in particular on climate change. It relates to the amount of greenhouse gases produced in our day-to-day lives. Every person, product and even nation has a carbon footprint. |
Greenhouse gases are gases in the atmosphere that create the greenhouse effect. When gases are trapped within our atmosphere it eventually warms, which is not a bad thing – otherwise we will freeze.... |more| |
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DIY home Q&A |
| Roy Berendsohn answers questions about stripping paint and pressure-washed concrete. |
To strip or notQ The exterior wood trim on our 20-year-old house has hardened drips and blobs of paint everywhere. We’re wondering whether we should strip... |more| |
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| June 2010 |
DIY home
Rig a tyre swing for your kids |
| David Labens’s 15-inch motorcycle tyre just happened to fall off at the right time for him to rig this swing for his twin daughters. |
One day projectTree branch
Level, stout and about 3 metres up. Ideally in an isolated oak or maple. Knots or branches can help hold the chain in position. ... |more| |
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