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The Grind

FOR KNIFE CONNOISSEURS
How to personalise a gift of a chef’s knife (or any type of kitchen knife)? Blade tattooing is the answer…

When you’re looking for a gift for someone, the ability to personalise that gift makes it extra special – it’s pretty much the exact opposite of giving a gift voucher. Many gift companies offer personalised versions of their products featuring well, whatever words you want to appear, often simply the…

Fermentation isn’t just for breweries

If you think fermented foods are a modern fad think again – there's plenty of evidence that humans were eating fermented food in prehistoric times. It can be pretty hard to imagine how early humans would even contemplate eating some of the foods we now take for granted (milk so…

The new hero vegetable

Did you know that in the past year consumption of Brussels sprouts in Australia has increased by a whopping 53%? And that it's estimated today that one in four of the population eats Brussels sprouts on a regular basis? Wind the clock back just a few years and this popularity…

What do airline passengers, astronauts and mountaineers have in common?

They all have to eat tasteless food. Have you ever wondered why food tastes pretty bland when you're 36,000 feet up (10,973m) in the air? It turns out there are a host of factors preventing you from having a tasty meal when you're not eating at or near sea level,…

Ever tried wombat cheese, kangaroo milk or Vegemite ice cream?

Neither have we, but over the years various food manufacturers have tried to convince us that they were going to launch these new products …always in early April. 1st April to be precise. April Fools Day has been a perfect opportunity for people – and brands – to have a…

Valentine’s Day

It’s coming up you know. Which got us thinking – how did Valentine’s Day even become a thing? It turns out that there’s no definitive answer to this question – much like the origins of Halloween (which we looked into here). There’s even some doubt as to which Valentine is…

What were Australians eating on Christmas Day a hundred years ago?

In 1923 George V was on the throne in Britain, Billy Hughes and then Stanley Bruce were both Prime Minister and construction began on the Sydney Harbour Bridge and on the original Parliament House (then called the 'Provisional Parliament House' and now 'Old Parliament House') in Canberra. 1923 also saw…

Thinking of opening a restaurant?

Catching the news today that Gordon Ramsay has filmed a new series of Kitchen Nightmares after a decade long break made us think 'what makes people want to open a restaurant?'. After all, in the first series he unearthed a veritable smorgasbord of major problems in the restaurants and cafes…

Do you need a grapefruit knife?

So far we've covered a range of common types of knives defined by what they cut, for example the bread knife, the cheese knife and the butter knife, but now we're into the realms of more esoteric knives that are out there, but probably not in everyone's kitchen drawer (don't…

Over three million years of knife sharpening – a (very) short history

Knife sharpening has been around as long as knives have been around and – depending on your definition of what a knife is – knives and things to sharpen them have been around for more than 3 million years, or at least these are the oldest artefacts discovered by archaeologists…

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