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I make two batches of vanilla extract per year because I let them age for 6 months a piece. I give them as gifts too and people love em. The best part is how super vanilla-ly they smell and the little specks of bean they add to desserts such as creme brulee.

Wow this looks great. Thanks Anna!

I wonder if it'd be much easier to spread the Sriracha on a mat in the dehydrator and let that dry, then break it up with a spice grinder or food processor, then mix it with salt? Why bother mixing the dry salt with the Sriracha to begin with, only to dry it out again?

I don't own a Soda Stream but to me, the biggest hack you can do is to install an adapter that allows you to use standard, refillable, co2 tank. They are cheap and easily found, used most often for paintball markers. I have spare 9 oz, 12 oz and 20 oz bottles sitting around. Sure beats the exchange program for co2 that Soda Stream has.

Am I the only one who thought this whole story was a little confusing? Matt is the boyfriend and he went to Hobart's (team of designers) to get a custom mixer for his girlfriend. Hobart's team posts on a blog under the guise of (Mixed Up) Jake and they speak as if they are really some guy named Jake.

I initially thought Matt did this himself. I didn't realize he just paid a mixer company money to produce it. Awesome gift of course, but it took me a few reads to get.

I am going to second What Sam Groves said - silica packets, of all shapes and sizes, are really cheap and easy to find. The url escapes me but there is a major site that specializes in selling these.

Who here can confidently say they can turn out macarons that look and taste right with any degree of consistency? I certainly can't and I consider myself a pretty good cook/baker. For me, nothing has yielded more failures than macarons.

Vitamix definitely.

Michael Ruhlman posted a long thread/essay on this and it's very interesting. I have read about people aging their eggnong in their garages (this is in a part of the country with relatively stable temps and humidity) for a whole year! Guess what? They haven't died yet. I really want to give this a try.

Thank you SherryBinNH!