This is an inexpensive homemade water filter setup. Made from a coffee creamer container, a Brita Water Filter and a 2 inch rubber O-Ring. There ...
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I got it into my head, mostly through boredom, to get a home carbonation system. I was tired of going to Costco to buy huge flats of Perrier or Pellegrino, hauling them back to my apartment, and then figuring out where to stash and subsequently dispose of the unreasonable number of bottles that accumulated.
Should be easy, right? Water… carbon dioxide… and hey presto, sparkling water. Water comes out of my tap (and my Brita filter), and CO2 is cheap as hell.
So I started doing research… as everyone does, these days… with Google. I eventually found Soda Club , which was pretty much what I was looking for. The system buy-in was steep, but not unreasonable… about $125 for a starter kit ($100 for the machine and 2 CO2 bottles, plus an extra bottle to use while the other two are being refilled).
The machine looked well-made, the reviews were nearly universally positive, and more importantly they’re the only consumer choice available, unless you get a seltzer siphon , which is impractically expensive and (reportedly) produces mildly fizzy water barely worth the name.
...Unitaskers we love | Unclutterer
Not everyone will agree with me, but I love our rice maker. We have steamed rice once or twice a week, and it’s *so easy* with the rice maker — I can’t seem to make rice stove-top without burning it. Now I can just press a button and wait for the ding.
Now that I think about it, it also steams veggies at the same time it steams rice, so maybe it’s not really a unitasker…
Posted by Sarah
I was going to say the lever-style wine opener, too, but since that’s already taken, I’ll go with my garlic press. I love mincing garlic with a knife as much as anyone (no, really!), but occasionally I’m making something that either requires a LOT of minced garlic, or I want the specific texture of *pressed* garlic, rather than *minced*. Maybe it’s only in my brain that there’s a difference, but there you go.
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