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I am thinking of replacing my electric stove top with LPG gas. Being out the middle of rural nowhere its either electricity or LPG. One thing that has put me off gas stove tops before is all the small burners. I would rather have one with 4 large burners but have not found any. Does anyone...

Genetically Modified Wheat, rejected by the other countries is being grown in Australia by the Government/CSIRO and according to plan will be in your food and on supermarket shelved by 2015 and will not be labelled so you will not know if you are eating it or not. It may even be malted and made...

I just had to find a book for the wife for her birthday and getting sick of all the Australian stores with shipping costs all over the map depending on what state you live in, plus charging full retail or $1 off. Then I found it at tweeet Price was the lowest price of any online store and the...

Instead of having new controller owners dig through pages of posts to find a valid and many invalid electrical wiring diagrams, I am putting this up as I was asked by a bloke from work how to wire his 4 STC-1000's so I drew this for him so I will share it here on Page 1 / Post 1 right from the...

Thought this might be interesting read. I've been researching bulk Cereal Rye purchasing in Victoria, and not finding much on offer except to check out the Malee Region, my research interest soon turned to barley and in particular malting varieties and bulk purchasing locations. First a site...

A bit of a mixed bag to keep things interesting. Commercial cordials are sweet and bland and soft drinks today are fizzy and flavourless. Only homemade drinks still taste of sun and fruit and summer. Soft Drink Beers Ginger beer was made by many bush children, with memories of bottles...

I have a fridge finally! Unfortunately still tied to my trailer under the 4 bay parking shed as I had to then meet the pig farmer down the road to go to a poultry auction in Colac... scored a breeding pair of Australorps for $22 oh yeah! But a fridge! Now I can start getting off my duff and...

Inspired by the distilled water post, I thought I would look into rain water as it is now my main water source and I wanted to know what issues could arise with rainwater. Now my rainwater tastes cleaner and sweeter than any I ever had in Melbourne (S.E. suburbs, N.W. suburbs) and I've never...

I met an old time cider making lady at the monthly Sunday village market. And got invited to afternoon tea at a cottage farm this Tuesday to talk geese, ducks, chooks and all things Permaculture but thats another story! Talking with the cider making lady it sounds like she has her own heritage...

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The wife cleaned what she thought was gunked on mess off the electric stovetop round elements and found corroded rusty elements underneath and now the large element sparks when moving metal pots over it. I vaguely remember someone replaced their elememts with induction? ones. I was wondering if...

I decided to get out the camera and take a photograph of the system I used to save some hops I was given (cheers Fraser John) that were in a bit of a state condition wise. It may help others who are having difficulty with theirs. This is the basic setup: o 50 litre plastic containers from...

Having moved I had to give away all my fridges and chest freezers. So now that I'm weeks away from moving into the farm I am going to have to hunt for some replacement fridges and chest freezers to get started again in brewing and keg dispensing. What are the best web site(s) and/or trading...

Ginger Beer Water-Kefir, by Dominic Anfiteatro This is quite possibly the original Ginger Beer Recipe. It is suggested that water kefir-grains were referred to as the Ginger Beer Plant when the culture was first introduced to the west, by British soldiers on their return back from the Crimean...

Its good to know you can still brew in the woods or when the electricity goes out! If you want to create superheated plasma to bring your wort up to temperature or boil your wort, why not build a Rocket Stove? The idea is to build a solid fuel combusting stove that is very efficient, once up...

Needed: o 28 grams home grown hops (28.3 grams if you have accurate scales) o sugar o water measure in mL Accurately measure: 28.3 grams of your home grown hops. 473 mL of water Steps to make hop tea: Boil the water for 15 minutes with 1 accurately measured tablespoon of sugar added. Add...

I decided to give malt roasting a go as I have a ton of unused pale malt and have done two batches, one dry roast, one wet roast. Dry roasting is a lot more successful. 200/205C at 40 minutes gave a lovely taste between roasted and dark toasted. It's bagged, sealed and will rest for 2 weeks to...

Foray into electricity ahead? I'm looking at electrifying my 36 litre robinox kettle as a boiling option while I wait for my gas to be fixed. Are there any decent hang over-the-side electric options are out there to use? I think that a 2400w element would give a rolling boil but if not I'm open...

I just finished building this box that will let me make Sake mould spores. I have not been brewing for a while with the bee hive building and then buying property and organising architects and all the build-your-own home grief but I think I will get back close to my roots of working with fungi...

I finally got off my duff and went into the shed in the sweltering heat and completed building my dough proofing box. o A large foam box re-used from shipping live animals (fish). o A light bulb and dimmer switch assembly. o Space next to the light bulb on the board to place a glass of water...