Smart equipment and goods for your household and daily life

Here are presented some smart household equipment that can make life easier, cheaper, more comfortable or bring you types of flavour to your daily life. Many of the products are also perfect for workplaces of various kind.

At the bottom of this page, there is are articles about beer and wine production.

Shop.com - This big store has al lot of good for home and family life. It has also a lot of proffessional equipment for workshops, professional kitchens, doctor's offices, and other areaqs.

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Allways have fresh and tasty water

This service gives you a steady deliverance of fresh water of high quality to your house or workplace. The water will be held in plastic  bottles to be mounted on practical racks with a tap in the right hight and with cooling of the water.

You can purchase delivery of natural water from several quality wells of which some are natural mineral waters. You can also purchase water that is especially rinsed, destilled, minralated or fluoridized to make it suitable for specific needs.

Pocket knives and outdoor utensiles for all needs: In this great shop there are knives for the hunter, the fisher, the camper, the hiker and anyone engaged in outdoor activities. There are also martial and law enforcement collectibles and other kinds of outdoor utensiles. There are collections of these categories: Pocket Knifes, Kitchen Knives, Knife Sharpeners, Swords, Multi Tools, Machetes, Scissors or Shears, Police, Flashlight, Discount Camping Supplies, Watches, Apparel, Gifts, Optics, Scopes, Binnoculars, Books, Videos,Grooming, Lighters, Footwear, Eyewear, Headwear,

 

 

High quality kitchen knives: This store contains all types of knives that are needed in any home's kitchen and in any professional chef's tool set. There are knives to perform cooking for any occation and of dishes of any national style. There are also knives needed for all types of food production or in any type of food store.

 

 

Brew your own beer - with Beer Mashine: With this mashine you can make tasty bear of several internationally famous flavours and many special domestic flavours. You can make beer of low or higher alohol content. Just fill the container with water, add the beer mix, wait in 7-10 days and you have fresh tasty beer to drink.

You can produce American ale, American blode, American lager, American brown ale, American pilsner light, Canadian dark ale, canandian light, canadian red lager, Australian golden ale, Australian light lager, English porter, Pale ale, Scotch ale, Dutch lager, Irish stout, German pilsner light, Danish golden light.

 

Good wines from around the world to your door: These wines are specially chosen by experts that try out each wine themselves and pick exactly those fitting the high standards of wine lagacy. The wines you purchase are shipped home to you to your doorstep. Pleace click at this banner to Purchase some of  these quality wines for an affordable prize for own use, gifts to your friends or partners, special occasions, weddings, and corporate events.

 

Press Gourmet Sandwich Maker

Hamilton Beach Panini Press Gourmet Sandwich Maker Grills sandwiches of any thickness 12 x 8. 5 inch nonstick grids Power & preheat lights Floating lid with lock Upright storage design Recipes included Weight: 12. Average Freight: 10. 54. Box Dimensions: 16x21x9.

 

Eclectrics Coffeemaker, Licorice Black

Hamilton Beach Eclectrics Coffeemaker, Licorice Black All metal Advanced no-scorch heater automatically adjusts to maintain coffee s just brewed temperature Drip-free pouring Programmable clock/timer with automatic shutoff after 2 hours Accelerator brewing Pause and serve

 

Cook swiftly and exellently with an infrared oven: With this oven you can bake, roast, toast or reheat frosen or fresh food without preheating the oven. The oven let you finish the food fifty per cent faster. There are 52 digital programs that ensure the right heating for the various dishes. 

 

 

Make calls anywhere in the world for only 2 cents a minute - by mens of  1ButtonToWifi: 1ButtonToWifi is a device that lets you make long distance calles to any place for this low prize. The device is easily installed in a slot on your DSL box or your data network. Then the long distance calles from your cell phone or regular phone are ruouted though the device and made for that low prize. You can also have 5 other persons using the device. There are no monthly fees or additional costs. You do not need to be near the device to make use of it. You just push a button on your cell phone or regular phone anywhere you are.

 

Smart and energy economic lamps and lightings: A lot of smart, energy economic and hygienic lighting products for kitchens, basements, garages, stores, workshops, health care offices and other places that need good and extremely practical lighting.

 

Quality linen beddings for factory prizes: Luxury stylistic linen bedings and simple smooth linen beddings. You find linen beddings to equip your bedroom with something special, beddings for simple casual use and beddings for large households.

 

 

About beer production and beer brewing

There is no fundamental difference between beer an wine. A fermented drink is usually called beer if it is made from certain ingredients, especially corn types, and is made so that it contains carbon dioxide.that is released as gass perls when a bottle is opened and give the drink a fresh taste. Beer is generally made in this way:

All the starch in the corn must be converted to sugar.to be fermented. This is done in the first parts of the process.

The malting process

First the corn is soaked in water to swell. It is then let in a chamber to germinate. Thereby enzymes are produced that can convert starch to sugar, and some sugar is produced allready under the germination. The main enzumes produced are alfa-maylase and beta-amylase.

- Then the germinated corn is dried, and sometimes heated in order to produce specific flavour and colors in the ready beer. The product from this process is called malt, and the processes producing the malt is called mating.

The meshing

The malt is now crushed and the husks are seperated from the malt, produceing a powder called grist.

The grist is now blended with hot water in a mesh tun and lies in the water 1-2 hours. Now proteins are broken down by enzymes and the enzymes convert the rest of the starch to sugar, producing a product called mesh.

The temperature of the blending is held at several levels in a specific time to let the different enzymes do the ideal amount of work:

At 49-55°C (120-130°F) protein is broken down. Care is taken not to break down too musch, since the head of the beer is produced by protein.

At 60°C (140°F) beta-glucanase reaks down gummy beta-glucans in the mash, making the sugars flow out more freely later in the process.

At the temperature of 65-71°C (149-160°F) the starches in the malt is converted to sugar

The lautering to produce vart

The temperature of the mesh is often rised to 75 °C (165-170 °F) to dectivate enzymes. The grain rests are now filtered out fom the mesh. The rests are also washed with warm water to win out all soluble material and the wash water is blended with the rest of the liquid. The liquid product is called wart.

Boiling

The liquid is now poured into a boiler and mixed with hops, herbs or other ingredients that shall add to the taste. The Liquid is now boild in ca two hours. The boiling sterilizes the solution and, let unwanted aroma to escape, let the flavor from the added ingredients to be soluted into the wart. The boiling also deacivates the rest of the enzymes, precipitate proteins and sterilizes the solution.

Clearifying the boiled wart

At the end of the boil, the boild (hopped) wort settles to clarify it in a vessel called a "whirl-pool" and the clarified wort is then cooled.
 

Fermenting

Then the vart is transfered to a fermentation tank, yeast is added and the wart is fermented with the chamber closed in 2-3 weeks. By the fermentation the gassous substance carbone dioxide is produces and the pressure builds itself up. The closure and the pressure in the fermentation chamber secures that the carbon dioxide produced by the fermentation process does not escape from the beer, but dissolves into the beer. The carbon dioxide gives the beer its fresh taste, the gas pearls released by the serving and the ability to produce foam. After the fermentation, the beer is bottled.

Conditioning

Then hte beer is cooled in a tank to near the freezing point and stored from a week to several months. This stops the fermentation and let the yeast and unwanted vaste to settle at the bottom, and all this vaste will now be tapped out.

Filtering and bottling

The beer may now be filtered, but not all beer is filtered.

At last the beer is poured at bottles or barrels and stored some time to ripen.

Non-alcoholic brewery products

It is possible to take off most the alcohol after the fermentation by low pressure vaporization combined with warming. It is also possible to make a beer-like product by adding carbon dioxide to vart.

Here is a photo of the boiling cettles in a brewery (a free photo from wikipedia.org):

Here is a photo of modern fermenting tanks in a brewery (a free photo from wikipedia.org):

About wine production

There is no fundamental difference between beer an wine. A fermented drink is usually called wine if it is made from certain ingredients, especially grapes or other berries.

In many ways wine is a simpler product to make than beer. There are two fundamental types of wine, wite wine and red wine. The same wine types can be made from any berry type, but the color will not necessarily be red and wite.

Hot wine is red or wite wine with an eleveated amount of alcohol.

Preparing process - red wine

The berries that shall become red wine is crushed or ground, so that one gets a blending of juice and crushed berry meat - so called must. This can be done by any convenient method. This crushed mass is used further in the production.

Preparing process - white wine

The juice is pressed out of the berries, and the berry rests are thrown away or used for some other purpose.

Preparing process - rosé wine

The berries that shall become red wine is crushed or ground, so that one gets a blending of juice and crushed berry meat - so called must. After some time the juice is filtered out from the must. This allows some of the color and other substnces in the berry meat to go into the must.

Primary fermentation

The juice or must is then fermented for some, usually one to two weeks. During fermentation sugar is converted to alcohol ans also other tasty substances are produced.

Secondary fermentation

The juice is now transfered to a second tank. The berry rests in the red wine production remain in the first tank as a waste. Then the  juce is fermented slowly for a long time until the process is over. This can take from a few weeks to several months.

The fermentation stops either when all the sugar is consumed or when the alcohol content is so high that the yeast is killed, usually around 12-17% dcependent of the yeast strain.

In the first case the wine will taste dry, in the latter case residual sugar content will make the wine sweet.

Making hot wine

Hot wine is produced by adding licquor to the wine. If this is done before the secondary fermentation is finished, this will stop the fermentation and make residual sugar remain in the wine so that it gets sweet.

Aging

Finer wines are the transferd to ouk barrels or other types of vessels where in ages. The aging process can take up to several years. During aging, fermentation products in the wine are oxidized so that a ritcher taste develps.

Bottling

Then the wine is bottled. The bottles with the wine can be stored for further aging process.