Monthly Archives: April 2015


Raised flower bed 3

Raised bed in an Intermediate bulk container: Cultivation plan of our raised bed (photo was taken at 12th of April 2015): chive (Schnittlauch) mangold (Mangold) loose leaf lettuce (Pflücksalat) [not seeded yet] radish (Radieschen) tagetes (Tagetes) Zigeunersonne strawberry (Erdbeere) 8 x mieze nova, 1 x Monatserdbeere spring onion (Lauchzwiebeln)


Grease fitting without space for the grease gun coupler

Last year I changed the ball joints of our truck and didn’t pay attention about the installation direction of the ball joints when pressing them into the axle. Therefore one of the grease fittings from the lower ball joints is to close to the axle to grease it with a standard grease gun coupler. My first attempt was to file the coupler down on one side to fit it on the grease fitting but this did not work. I bought this adapter for hardly to reach grease fittings. This adapter has a sleeve (compare first and second image) which could be moved front […]


Sous Vide Initial Documentation

Until now we documented our Sous Vide cooking on a sheet of paper but now we would like to use this blog to write about our Sous Vide experiences. In this blog entry are all our Sous Vide cooked meals listed below up to now. We use Custom Field Suite  for the structured documentation of our Sous Vide meals. MealsRump steak cooked at 64°C for 4:30 h in Sous-Vide Garer SV 2447 was dry. Rump steak cooked at 59°C for 4:50 h in Sous-Vide Garer SV 2447 was medium. roast pork and crackling (Krustenbraten) cooked at ??°C for 11:50 h in Sous-Vide Garer […]