Since the glass was piled into my casts, only the glass adjacent to the cement adhered. This gave the coasters a really cool inset geode-like effect. And my tie-dye coasters came out pretty cool too! The one thing I found with the crushed glass though was that some of the sharp edges...
Start by creating your tincture; add 1 teaspoon of sea salt to 200ml of vodka. Add 6 slightly crushed peppercorns and seal in a non-reactive container for a week. Make sure to shake the mixture once every day. Strain into an aromatise bottle. Next, mix your martini by stirring 50ml o...
This is simply your glass bottles to store red wines or the final product. You can either purchase a good thick glass bottle that comes with a corker or recycle from old ones. Fermentation Bag Or otherwise known as a wine bag. If you’re making fruit wine, you’ll need to have one. ...
The cold glass will help keep your iced coffee cold and your whipped cream from losing its foamy texture. Any ice will do to keep this coffee drink cold, but we suggest cube-shaped ice and not crushed ice, which melts faster and will make your iced coffee watery. Irish Cream syrup is ...
This will also remove some of the red berries from the stems, which is good. For white wines, you only want to ferment the juice in the next step. Pour the bulk of the juice through a funnel into a glass carboy, then press the leftover skins and stems through a heavy-duty colander...
Recycling centers use optical scanners to identify the type of plastic resin, so #1 and #2 plastics are separated from each other and other materials (such as paper and glass). Bottles are then crushed (where caps are removed if you haven’t already done so) and baled to be sent to a...
Step 1:Place the glass in a furnace and heat it to 1,300 °C to make it malleable. Step 2:Put one end of the blowpipe into the furnace and roll it over the molten glass until a ‘gob’ of glass sticks to it. Step 3:Roll the molten glass on a marver, a flat metal slab, wh...
Crushed aluminum ready to be recycled into new cans. Photo courtesy stock.xchng Although recycling may seem like a modern concept introduced with the environmental movement of the 1970s, it's actually been around for thousands of years. Prior to the industrial age, you couldn't make goods qu...
Once you’re sure that the only thing left is clear wine and no other particles, it’s time to transfer your fruit wine to your bottles or glass jar! Step 7: And Viola, You’re Done! Store your bottles or glass jars away, in a cold and dark place. You can leave it for a good...
Crushed aluminum ready to be recycled into new cans. Photo courtesy stock.xchng Although recycling may seem like a modern concept introduced with the environmental movement of the 1970s, it's actually been around for thousands of years. Prior to the industrial age, you couldn't make goods qu...