Articles for category: Food & Drink

No ultra-small microwave oven

I’ve been searching for the last 5 years for an economical very small microwave oven. This is something I could use when working out of hotels. Well, I gave up on the search. But not easily. I even explored trying to build with my own hands, a small microwave by taking component parts from second ...

Microwaving Eggs: Round Two – with Startling Figures

So, you all scoffed. You sneered. You laughed, pointed fingers and snorted with derision about the many failures in my quest to conquer the impossible: microwaving an egg without it exploding like a miniature culinary grenade. “It can’t be done!” you declared, between guffaws. You sneered, “You’ll end up with scrambled egg on the ceiling!” ...

Found it after 50 years!

This is no joke. I’ve been looking for a particular brand and taste of chocolate milk for 50 years. And now I’ve found it. When I was a young child I used to enjoy it cold, in cans labelled C-CMEL. After searching intermittently for years, I could not find it anywhere on the net. So ...

Not grilled cheese on toast

Okay – I’ve been known to do the impossible – partly because I am ‘impossible’. For example, I found a way to make microwaved poached eggs – after years of experimentation. And now you see, what ‘everybody’ might think is grilled cheese on toast. Except that it isn’t. This is not a recommendation to eat ...

Captain Walker

Make your food stay longer..

I’m giving a few simple tips on making your cooked food last longer. Well no, you can’t eat it and have it – and this is not about eating more slowly. The short message is avoid as much as possible getting human spit or germs into your food. I’m not in the business of providing ...