Quirky Cookery labels – What do they mean?
Before I get too knee-deep in this blog, I thought I should outline what my labels mean. Do you really care? Nah, probably not, but I actually put quite a bit of thought into them, so you’re going to skim this and pretend you care. :P
When I started Quirky Jessi, I really had no plan. Over the years, I kept the labels/tags relatively vague so that I have a fair bit of them, but they’re so general that sometimes a post falls into several at once…or none at all. And to top it off, they don’t really ‘mean’ much of anything.
So for Quirky Cookery, I knew I wanted to have some pretty tight labels to help keep things organized. So many cooking sites have 50 million tags so that every post is tagged with 20 tags each. One recipe may fit into the categories of “dinner,” “vegetarian,” “ethnic,” “Mexican,” “easy,” “cheap,” “dairy-free,” “diabetes-friendly,” “organic,” “healthy,” etc, etc.
I don’t want to be every other cooking site, though. And I certainly don’t want to juggle all those tags when most people just honestly don’t care. If you’re looking for Mexican recipes, google “Mexican recipe.” If you want food that simply ‘looks’ like a Mexican flag, then now we’re talking.
Cravings and curiosities – Whether it’s food or kitchen products, these are things I’m curious about. A recipe I think would be fun to try out, but I haven’t actually tried it yet? A kitchen accessory I’m drooling over? A new food that I’m curious how it’d be? All goes here.
Culinary detours – Stories mostly, I figure. When the kids say something so hilarious that I can’t resist posting it here, or when I make a goofy mistake like burning my belly button repeatedly, I want a place to put them.
Gadgets and gizmos – Self-explanatory really. I run across a lot of quirky gadgets and the best (read: strangest) ones will end up here.
Images – Yeah, so it’s vague, general, and it doesn’t have an interesting name at all. What’s it to you? I ran out of ideas, ok? And I know I’ll be posting random pictures that won’t fit anywhere in the rest of these categories. Leave me alone! Or suggest a quirkier name.
OAMC – Stands for “Once a month cooking.” While I don’t do it just once a month, I ‘do’ tend to cook a whole bunch at once to put meals in the freezer. This frees up a lot of time for me and allows me to play with my food a bit more on some other days. I have a lot of fun shopping just once a month (minus the occasional trip for fresh produce, bread, and milk), and even more fun taking pictures of how much I cook at once.
Other sites – I love to link to other people. Everyone seems to have so many amazing ideas and they deserve as much linky love as possible.
Quirky creations – These are my own creations. Here will be silly, quirky, and/or messed up dishes that I’ve made myself.
Recipes – Duh. Recipes here. These will likely be mostly ones I’ve tried (or am going to try shortly), but that aren’t necessarily “quirky.”
Reviews – Do I need to explain this one?
Tips – Or this one? These are boring. Shhh. Tips will be listed in italics, usually at the end of posts.
So there you have it. Now you know what they all mean. Or what they’re supposed to mean. We’ll consider this my cheat sheet for the next time I forget how to label one of my own posts, ok? ;)
Disclosure: All labels are mine and I’ll change them whenever I feel like, so this list could easily multiply like flour seems to all over my table, counter, feet, and hair. In 5 years if I’m still writing here and forget that once upon a time, I wrote this post, I cannot be held liable for these being completely outdated and false. It’s not my fault. And you shouldn’t care, so shush it and go click a link instead.
Pull string food chopper looks like a fun toy, but does it work?
Reminiscent of those pull-string toys that start waddling, running, vibrating, etc whenever you pull on their string, this food chopper uses the same concept. Pull the string away and the blades spin to chop whatever amazing food you put inside.
This video shows how it works:
I was actually more impressed by it before I saw the video, sadly enough.
The idea is awesome, but having the blades that direction instead of chopping up and down like many choppers, made me a little unsure of how well it’d work. Well, not so much how “well” it’d work because it’s going to get the job done….eventually. It just sorta seemed like in the video that it was taking longer to chop the nuts than it might’ve in another chopper.
And with other choppers, when the blades start to dull a little bit, they still work just fine, but how well is this going to after a while when the blades don’t have a hard surface to hit against and just spin instead?
I ‘do’ love the pull string bit (notice how the ring folds onto the base perfectly?). It reminds me very much of toys like this:
But without trying it myself, I just don’t know how well it’d work. I suppose if I really wanted to get a workout in the kitchen, I’d probably get my right arm rather buff after chopping lots at once.
Accordian kitchen island expands to meet needs, then collapses
I think this piece speaks loads for itself, but I’ll give you a bit of background anyway. This was an entry by Olga Kalugina at the International Design Award 2009 called “Accordion” (of course!). Not only does it expand and contract to meet your individual needs, but it also provides extra storage space.
Unfortunately, it’s not an actual purchasable piece. It’s just an idea that was pitched. Can you imagine how great this would be to expand when you’re cooking, clean it up, and push it back together to open up an area when you’re not using?
The original source I had for this no longer has it up, so I don’t even have something to link to for you. You’ll just have to drool over its amazingness from here.
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