Yearly Archives: 2015

Rib eye Steak

 in Sous Vide Meal by

I bought this steak from a discounter and recognized that I don’t like the marinade at all so I put it in the freezer for the dogs of my parents – hope they like it. I forgot the steak in our sous vide machine and took it out after approximately twentyfour hours at forty degrees. So it cooled down fifteen degrees within seven hours. MealRib eye steak cooked at 55°C for 17 h in Sous-Vide Garer SV 2447 was tender but don’t like the marinade and forgot it in the sous vide machine (when I took it out of the water after 24 […]

Dodge Ram hood lock 

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The spring that pulls the opener of the hood lock back was broken on our truck. If this spring is broken the hood opener under the steering wheel will not return back to its normal position if you pull it to open the hood. If this happens the locking mechanism of the hood lock is blocked and it is not possible to close the hood. If this happens you have to push the latch, where the spring is connected , back. This can be done without removing the hood lock with a key or screwdriver. Because I don’t had a replacement spring I […]

Raised flower bed 3

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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

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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

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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 […]