Last night a dozen of us learned just what felting is and gained a new appreciation for anyone who made cloth before the cotton gin. (For real. Before the cotton gin, one person could clean one pound of cotton in a day. Compare that to the cotton gin, which could clean as much in one day as a person could in a whole year.)
But yeah, felting is really neat. Wikipedia defines felt as "a non-woven cloth that is produced by matting, condensing and...
By popular demand, we're hosting an ice cream making class next Sunday, February 13 at noon. We'll cover all the million different types of frozen desserts out there and how to get the flavors you want into them.
After class, you can stick around for an Ice Cream Club meeting, where people who make ice cream (and you) hang out and eat each others' concoctions--some awesomely weird, some entirely delicious.
There's only a very small handful of...
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I haven't owned a microwave for a long, long time and have come to think of it as useful only for melting butter and reheating coffee. But then we decided to have a microwave candy class, ripped from the headlines of this NYTimes article on the subject, and now I know how completely wrong I was about them. They make the entire process way quicker and way easier. I'm so totally sold.
If you're venturing into the wild world of microwave...
February classes are open for registration (and a couple already filled up by the time we got around to posting this!)
They're all listed below, but first an announcement! With the popularity of the Kimchi Party, we've decided to start a monthly tradition at the Brainery: $7 Sundays. Brief, easy drop-in classes where you learn a quick something and get to hang out with a bunch of other interesting people. We're capping registration this time,...
