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- Petronski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29I like the spice rack idea a lot. But I think it's a bad idea to store spices so close to such heat. They won't last nearly as long.
If they could be protected from light too, well, all the better. But I'd suggest making one designed to mount on the wall, not the range. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23I don't have any magnetic spices!
- Petronski, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22In Soviet Russia . . . .
[Petronski drops keyboard, runs away . . .] - kenlaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Yes, Alton uses magnetic strips inside the cabinet doors. Keeps the spices cool and dark. I regularly watch "Good Eats" and love Alton's mixture of tech, comedy, and good eats.
- krg123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18I think Alton Brown did something like this on Good Eats (foodnetwork.com)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16i heard that it is really bad for spices to be exposed to heat...but, whatever.
- chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Love the comments on that site:
"that is so awesome!!! you're great amber.
ps.
i got my nose ring in the mail!" - Sphonix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14It doesn't look too great in my eyes, but I think it could be useful in other applications, still a pretty cool project.
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Please note that someone is impersonating the top Digg user CLIFFosakaJAPAN under a similar name, CLIFosakaJAPAN (one F left off.) Please block this spammy impersonator and contact abuse@digg.com
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11@rasterbator:
Make them stick to the inside of a cabinet door, then! - 1911wolf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Yep, quite a while ago too.
Alton points and laughs at this thread! - Petronski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Tremendous waste of good spices there: the heat will ruin them far faster than they would grow stale at room temperature.
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I think it looks great, but I can bet my wife would not! She likes her spices behind cabinet doors. ;)
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Alton Brown or one of those food channel types did this a while ago. They used velcro. With velcro, you can hang those little cans up anywhere.
Anyway, you should use fresh spices whenever possible, because they taste 100x better in most cases. They're not that hard to buy in most cities anymore. Not quite like the middle-ages, when someone would be willing to cut your head off for a bag of pepper. The spice trade was a really bloody business back then, and only the rich had spice racks! The serfs had to flavor their food with *CRAP*! Even salt was a rarity in some places. - FishyJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You can buy the individual tins with magnets already attached from places like Cost Plus for around $2.
- ryland2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Thanks titlesaysitall, my apologies to the real cliff.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6We urgently need a REPORT SPAM button for comments. These spammers are showing up all over Digg. This is going to start causing problems if we can't stop them quickly enough.
- Benjin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4in addition to the heat, its bad to have leafy spices (i.e. oregano parsley thyme) out in the light, they go bad faster that way too.
- 1911wolf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Not so much if they're sealed. But, the heat from cooking on the range with your spices just sitting there over the heat wont do anything good.
- dpknc84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4He should just get a sheet of metal and affix it to the back of a cabinet door to prevent exposure to light and heat. Problem solved, still preventing digging through containers in the cupboard.
- ElGuano, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I was at a friend's for dinner 2 weeks ago, and he has exactly the same thing, except he bought them pre-magnetized. Independent invention? Maybe, but dugg anyways cause it's a great idea that deserves being shared.
Btw, my friend has his spices stuck to the side of the refrigerator, away from the heat. - ryland2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Cliff Fosaka- What the hell, a top digger like yourself spamming digg?
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3[quote]I think Alton Brown did something like this on Good Eats (foodnetwork.com)[/quote]
Aha! I thought so. Alton Brown should be the official chef of Digg because of his geeky inventions, or "cooking mods". Like that salmon smoker he made out of a cardboard box. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Easy to see why the 'real' Cliff has been targeted though. He keeps on resubmitting other's stories mere hours after they are originally posted.
Thats a pretty ***** thing to do, but he still doesn't deserve to be maligned by this creep with the near-identical name! - sacherjj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Both heat and light are bad for dried spices. So this is a bad idea on two counts. The thing that would annoy me is cleaning grease off every single one of the containers after frying up ground beef for something. This just wouldn't work for me.
- g3r4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How about a steel plated belt for the hardcore chefs? Doubles as a handy tenderizer.
- SystmBetatester, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2im wondering how many of you dugg this because kevin rose submitted it, i saw it. but looked at it like he was testing how many people would digg something like this.
- Holyfool19, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You need to dash some chili powder in her unbelieving eyes then.
- JavertHolmes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wouldn't the smells of cooking cross-contaminate the spices' smells? Not good to have the turmeric tasting like cardamom. And like someone said above, heat isn't good for the spices either. Neither is light for a lot of them if you want to get picky about it. Nice to see thinking out of the box, though.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Great idea but bad implementation. One of the worst places you can store your spices is around a constantly fluctuating heat source.
I wanted one of those magnetic racks when I saw them at Kitchen Window. The problem was that for the cost they didn't include much; A stainless steel "memo board" and 10 canisters for $65.
When I started my kitchen remodel I used stainless steel as a back-splash under the cupboards, above the counters. I purchase 60 tins at Ikea at $5/3.
I have extra tins now for anything I might need to store. I use about 30 of them on a regular basis.
If you don't cook every day and have dinner parties a few nights a month like I do then the set of 10 should be sufficient since you don't want spices to sit too long.
Just my two cents.
I still give this a digg since it replicates a much overpriced item at a substantial savings. - HaroldHupmobile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2He used Velcro on the inside of a cabinet door.
- playfulmind, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2that's nice--it looks awesome-- but,
a) moisture and nearby heat would ruin a lot of the spices, (which is why spices are typically kept in cool, dry places)
b) grease would make that get gross pretty fast, and --
c) that would suck if a pot knocked it and it spilled. Eww--green ham and eggs! - fuzzboxer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yea, that doesn't look stupid at all. :-/
- poopsmith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This could be nicely adapted for small screws, terminals, springs, etc. for the side of my toolbox.
- meshman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's not a 'rack'. It's just a bunch of tins stuck to a stove in a random fashion. It looks hideous IMO.
- g3r4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone else think that it'd be cool in a house that has tile walls to just replace tiles in a checkerboard pattern with stainless steel tiles that have been polished to near mirror quality? Spices could be placed anywhere that's convenient and if a guy had to do it, at least he got to use some steel while re-tiling the kitchen.
On second thought though, it *might* get expensive. - sacherjj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Until you bump something in to it while moving things around and send 20 little cases rolling around the garage.
- g3r4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Holy *****, Rose submitted this. Lol, I didn't expect that, so I didn't look.
- hiPpymIck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1just for the hell of it....Dr Who/foodie link - not bad for english humour (includes 2 doctors)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdgvi_WOyE4&mode=related&search= - quietcore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have a similar setup, but I bought my containers at walmart 6 - $10 and i just stuck them to the side of the fridge
- mjenkins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Things like this are better suited for hardware (nails and so forth) or office supplies (paperclips, rubberbands, thumbtacks) rather than spices.
I purchased the pricey Soho Spices Spice rack (http://www.sohospices.com/) a few years back which is a nicer way to do the same concept, but there are problems with it if used for spices. It looks great on the wall and the spices keep just fine with no moisture. Heat wasn't an issue even right above the stove. The big problem for me was that without labels (which would ruin the look) some spices look the same as others and I often would have to open multiple jars before I'd find the right one. Which one is the garlic powder and which one is the onion powder? Curry or mustard powder? Don't know until you smell it.
My spices are all back in the cabinet, out of sight and clearly labeled. My spice rack awaiting mounting by my desk for alternate uses. - karrock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Alton didn't just use velcro (as in the episode "Spice Capades"), I swear I've seen him use magnetic tins too, with a sheet metal panel installed on the backside of a cabinet door.
And exposure to light, air, moisture and heat is bad for spices too, so while the clear top is nice for seeing what's inside, they won't last as long that way. Ditto on what's been said for being so close to the range burners and in the path of the oven exhaust vents. - gottatufa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just glue some NdFeB magnets to your exsisting spice containers and put them on your fridge to hold your notes and stuff. You know you have refrigerator magnets stuck all over the dang thing anyway.
- cuoops, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I didn't notice until you said that. I did not digg it.
- g3r4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Hot Pockets are a staple in any geek's diet, but I've stumbled upon Tony's Pizza Pouches. Taste great and there's no loss of your geekness, and thereby access to the geekdom.
/End Sponsorship - senixon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would hate to be on receiving end of a dish that mistakenly was peppered with chili powder instead of paprika or worst. Great Idea, just needs labels.
- tf5bassist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1y'know, that's a really great idea... I like the colors, but I don't like the clutter... although, to mount a metal plate inside a cupboard would be great, I'm pretty sure my fiance would and I would both find it useful.
- AxsDeny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://vaxcave.com/?p=527
http://www.flickr.com/photos/axsdeny/tags/spicerack/
I made this spice rack for my wife before Chrismas. It is simply a piece of sheet steel that I bought at Lowes for about $20. I cut it to the size of the side of our cabinet with my Dremel and used the magnetic containers from kitchen supply store for spices. This one has eraseable labels that my wife got at The Container Store. - jonathanbull, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Site's down...
http://www.duggmirror.com/design/DIY_Magnetic_Spice_Rack_2/ -
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