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What are the differences - in terms of both final product and actual practice of using - between cans of malt extract and dried malt extract. I've never used dried before. Worth trying?

How about making a compost bin with them? Could that work?

Hello all - where do you most regularly purchase your malt extract from? I've purchased primarily from a shop I found online, but I'm wondering if others shop elsewhere. Where's good and cheap? :D

^^ that works for me too, it's the ratio I've always used.

I'm a skinhead and shave my head daily; problem solved :p

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Something like a chicken laksa might be the ticket, although it's not really one for the slow cooker. Quick and easy though.

I do :) I quite often use EZ Caps to make small batches of turbo cider / ginger beer and other goodies. www.e-z-caps.com Anyway, with these I make a 2 litre bottle of slightly alcoholic ginger beer. I'll double check the exact measurments, but it's basically a tablespoon or more of grated ginger, so...

Our local fruit & veg shop helpfully put up a notice in the shop window letting us know that Seville oranges would be in stock at the start of January, and inside they made a display of them, with free 'how to make marmelade' recipe leaflets next to them. This was my first year of making marmela...

Same argument applies - release the locking lever a little and VERY slowly to allow any excess pressure to vent. I didn't realise you could get those without drinking an awful lot of Grolsch :? Mike They're not the cheapest of bottles to purchase new - but we were on holiday in Germany this year an...

In B&Q yesterday and found good sized sandstone slab reduced to £2. Works a treat! Flat breads done on it were really great. I used my rimless baking sheet as a peel, although I was more successful in using it to remove the breads from the oven than I was putting them in. Practice required I gue...

I'd always assumed that powdered milk was recommended (rather than 'real' milk) because of a bread machine's timing function - so that, if you put the mix into the machine before going to bed at night in order to have a fresh baked loaf waiting in the morning, then you won't be leaving the milk out ...

Too true! My previous hydrometer lasted all of 5 MINUTES!! Opened parcel, removed hydrometer from packaging, walked out of my office, tripped and *smash*

Since pumpkin season isn't too far away, has anyone ever made a wine / cider with them? I have an inkling that apple and pumpkin could work well together, but I've never tried...

I drank some Buckfast when I was 17. I'm now over twice that age and haven't touched the stuff since. 'Nuff said