Best Beef Stew Ever!!!
1lb boneless beef short rib cut into dice size pieces or smaller
3 cups beef broth (mine was organic)
2lbs potatoes (small red organic potatoes)
12oz of peas (mine were canned organic, fresh is the best, frozen is better but canned was all i had haha)
4T Corn Starch
2T Water
Salt + Pepper
Brown the beef in the pressure cooker with a little oil, add Salt + Pepper
Once browned add 2 cups beef broth and secure pressure cooker lid
Turn on high heat until pressure is achieved then lower hear
After 20 minutes depressurize then throw in the potatoes
Add the last cup of broth then secure the lid again
And Repressureize(new word lol) for 8 more minutes
After 8 minutes depressurize then throw the peas in
then add the cornstarch mixed with the cold water
Bring to a boil and simmer for a few minutes then ready to serve
It served 5 people with a little extra that was quickly eaten.
Hope you Enjoy!!
FruitStripeApe
Friday, December 3, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Sushi Places in North East Ohio (Mostly Around Akron)
Sushi is my favorite food, I could eat it everyday and tend to eat it 2+ times a week at lunch. I also like to have Sushi Parties were Me and my friends get together to enjoy our love of sushi, drink sake/Big Beers and talk about everything. I thought for today i would like the sushi places I've been to and say a little about them.
Wasabi Japanese Steak House
Pacific East Japanese Restaurant 2 locations
This place is really good besides sushi they also have Malaysian Food that rocks. I don't know of any other Malaysian places. They have all the basic sushi rolls and the standard special rolls. Last time i ordered too much since everything looked so good. haha They also have Bubble Tea which has tapioca pearls in it and a huge straw to suck them up. I've been to the solon one once and the other one 3 times. Always Great.
House Gourmet
Wasabi Japanese Steak House
150 Montrose West Ave
Akron, OH 44321
(330) 666-5522
They have some really good special rolls and other seafood appetizers that other places don't have. I've been here about 24 times, 2 sushi parties and it has always been awesome!!! They also have private rooms where the table is submerged into the ground some and cut out for your legs. The small room has rice paper doors and you have to take your shoes off first.
Pacific East Japanese Restaurant 2 locations
1763 Coventry Road
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118-1631
(216) 320-230233003 Aurora Rd
Solon, OH 44139-3647
(440) 498-3223This place is really good besides sushi they also have Malaysian Food that rocks. I don't know of any other Malaysian places. They have all the basic sushi rolls and the standard special rolls. Last time i ordered too much since everything looked so good. haha They also have Bubble Tea which has tapioca pearls in it and a huge straw to suck them up. I've been to the solon one once and the other one 3 times. Always Great.
House Gourmet
1305 East Tallmadge Avenue
Akron, OH 44310-3608
(330) 634-9988
housegourmet.com
I've always loved this place, great food and the people that work there are very nice. Great Special Rolls and regular sushi. Order an Empire Roll, you wont be sorry! I've been here over 100 times, 12 sushi parties and 4 of my own birthday parties. I started going the second day they opened and kept coming back. There Chinese food is the best around too, Best Flavor!!!
I've always loved this place, great food and the people that work there are very nice. Great Special Rolls and regular sushi. Order an Empire Roll, you wont be sorry! I've been here over 100 times, 12 sushi parties and 4 of my own birthday parties. I started going the second day they opened and kept coming back. There Chinese food is the best around too, Best Flavor!!!
Big Eye Sushi
2965 W Market St # L
Fairlawn, OH 44333-3632
(330) 836-4433
bigeyejapanesecuisine.com
Their sushi is really good but it took 90 minutes to get our sushi, we show it on their sushi board already made for almost an hour. It took 30 minutes to get our soups and salads. The appetizers came at the same time as the sushi. So the whole table was full of food and no room for anything else. Went there once, may try again in the near future.
Cilantro Thai and Sushi Restaurant
Their sushi is really good but it took 90 minutes to get our sushi, we show it on their sushi board already made for almost an hour. It took 30 minutes to get our soups and salads. The appetizers came at the same time as the sushi. So the whole table was full of food and no room for anything else. Went there once, may try again in the near future.
Cilantro Thai and Sushi Restaurant
326 S. Main St.
Akron, OH 44308
(330) 434-2876
cilantrothai.com
I've been here a few times. Great Thai food, super hot if you ask for it. Unique appetizers, their special rolls aren't that special. Overall order some thai food with a little sushi.
House of Hunan
I've been here a few times. Great Thai food, super hot if you ask for it. Unique appetizers, their special rolls aren't that special. Overall order some thai food with a little sushi.
House of Hunan
12 E Exchange St # 1
Akron, OH 44308-1541
(330) 253-1888
houseofhunan.net
Their Chinese food is pretty good, Sushi is not as great as before. Their sushi chef used to be the greatest then he started working for House Gourmet so that's why House Gourmet is so good. After some construction downtown they lost most of their parking so you have to park around the block and walk there.
Taste of Bangkok
Opened not to long ago. Great thai food, i usally get a lunch special and a hand roll. Sushi is good, they are getting better with their special rolls. Great Place around akron U.
7155 North Aurora Road
(330) 995-0880
I've been here a few times. Good sushi nothing too special. They had a cool roll rolled in cucumber.
Last but not Least
Sakura
3900 Medina Road # X
Akron, OH 44333-2458
(330) 670-0288
By far my favorite. Most unique sushi rolls I've ever had. Great appetizers, very friendly staff!! I've been here over 100 times.
My favorite roll is called a Magic Stone, it is pressed sushi with tuna, white tuna, seasoned rice, tobiko, powered shrimp w/ powered sugar and a drizzle of japanese mayo. The fish is lightly torched on top.
That's it for now.
FruitStripeApe
Their Chinese food is pretty good, Sushi is not as great as before. Their sushi chef used to be the greatest then he started working for House Gourmet so that's why House Gourmet is so good. After some construction downtown they lost most of their parking so you have to park around the block and walk there.
Taste of Bangkok
514 East Exchange Street
Akron, OH 44304-1865
(330) 252-2270Opened not to long ago. Great thai food, i usally get a lunch special and a hand roll. Sushi is good, they are getting better with their special rolls. Great Place around akron U.
Samurai Japanese Steak House
7155 North Aurora Road
Aurora, OH 44202-9602
I've been here a few times. Good sushi nothing too special. They had a cool roll rolled in cucumber.
Last but not Least
Sakura
3900 Medina Road # X
Akron, OH 44333-2458
(330) 670-0288
By far my favorite. Most unique sushi rolls I've ever had. Great appetizers, very friendly staff!! I've been here over 100 times.
My favorite roll is called a Magic Stone, it is pressed sushi with tuna, white tuna, seasoned rice, tobiko, powered shrimp w/ powered sugar and a drizzle of japanese mayo. The fish is lightly torched on top.
That's it for now.
FruitStripeApe
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Chest Fridge Conversion
I read this article today about converting a chest freezer into a fridge. Since the chest freezers are super efficient compared to a regular refrigerator even though a freezer obviously gets way colder.
Here is the article.
http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/Conservation/chest_fridge.pdf
I would like to make one in the near future. You can buy a chest freezer online for 1000 to 2000 depending on the size but if you make one like described on this guide it would be like 500$ for the big freezer and 100$ for the 2 thermostats.
Give it a try.
FruitStripeApeo C and switched on the AC power via energy measuremento C ando C. I thought that there was something wrong with the digital display, becauseoC during the day to 15oC ato and +7o C. The fridgeoCoC average ambient temperature (13oC difference). If the averageoC, the temperature difference will double to 26oC.
Here is the article.
http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/Conservation/chest_fridge.pdf
By Tom Chalko, Mt Best, Australia, mtbest.net
There is no mistake in the title. This article describes an inexpensive fridge that is 10
to 20 times more energy efficient than an average fridge on the market. It also
demonstrates that the biggest limitations are our habits and mediocre attitudes, not
technology or cost.
My dream is to live a near-zero emission life. Step by step I come closer to bring this
dream to reality. After all, the rainforest here at Mt Best is so beautiful and so unique
that I hesitate to disturb it with any kind of pollution.
Insulating and double-glazing my RAL home reduced my winter energy requirement
to about 20 Watt per square meter of floor area. I do not like “star ratings”. I think
they are misleading and promote ignorance rather than understanding of energy
efficiency.
Reflective solar heating (described in issue 88 of Renew) nearly halved my heating
energy (and the firewood) needs in winter. However, to achieve a near-zero emissions
I needed to find a clean renewable source of energy to replace the firewood
altogether. The system of choice became a geothermic storage heat pump system that
will be described in my next article. However, since I generate my own electricity
from wind and sun, I needed to save some energy to run the heat pump.
For almost 2 years I tolerated the fridge that I did not like a little tiny bit. The list of
things I did not like about it is too long to mention here. If I could eliminate this
fridge, I would have enough energy to run the heat pump…
Chest fridge
Comparing the energy consumption of various refrigeration devices available on the
market I noticed that well-designed chest freezers actually consume less electricity
than fridges of comparable volume, even though freezers maintain much colder
temperatures inside. While chest freezers typically have better thermal insulation than
fridges, there is another reason for their efficiency.
Vertical doors in refrigeration devices are inherently inefficient. As soon as you open
a vertical fridge door – the cold air escapes, simply because it is heavier than the
warmer air in the room. When you open a chest freezer – the cool air stays inside, just
because it’s heavy. Any leak or wear in a vertical door seal (no seal is perfect) causes
significant loss of efficiency. On the other hand, even if you leave the chest freezer
door wide open, the heavy cool air will still remain inside. Have you ever wondered
why chest freezers in supermarkets have their doors either wide open or not thermally
insulated?
Designing refrigeration devices with vertical doors is clearly an act against the Nature
of Cold Air. Shouldn’t we cooperate with Nature rather than work against it?
I become really curious just how efficient a chest fridge can be. After contacting some
leading fridge manufacturers and discovering that no one has ever made and tested a
chest fridge, I decided to make my own test. I bought a good chest freezer and turned
it into a fridge.
Turning a chest freezer into a chest fridge
The main difference between a freezer and a fridge is the temperature maintained
inside. Freezers maintain sub-zero (freezing) temperatures down to –25
fridges operate somewhere between +4
Hence, turning a freezer into a fridge meant changing the temperature control. Rather
than interfering with mediocre thermostat of the freezer, I decided to install an
external thermostat to cut the power off when the temperature of my choice has been
reached.
For my research I bought a Vestfrost SE255 chest freezer with 600a refrigerant and a
$40 battery-powered thermostat equipped with digital temperature display and an
internal 5A/240V latching relay. The main feature of the latching relay is that it
consumes battery power only during actual switching so that the thermostat equipped
with it is a true micro-power device and its 2 AAA batteries last for many months.
Connection diagram (Fig 1.) is really simple. Thermostat relay cuts the power to the
freezer, much like a light switch cuts the power to a lamp. Thermistor (the
temperature sensor) is placed inside the freezer at the end of a thin 2-wire flexible
cable. I used the freezer drain hole to pass the thermistor cable inside the cooling
compartment. An alternative is to insert it from the top via the chest door. If the
thermistor is left near the bottom of the chest fridge – the minimum fridge
temperature is controlled by thermostat. If the thermistor is located near the top of the
cooling compartment – the thermostat will control the maximum temperature there.
The best position for thermistor is somewhere in the middle.
It took me about 30 minutes to make all connections. The most time consuming part
was removing the thermistor from inside the thermostat (I cut it out from the circuit
board using wire clippers) and soldering it at the end of a thin 2-wire flexible cable. I
protected the thermistor from moisture and mechanical damage using shrink-wrap
tubing and a tiny bit of silicone.
The external thermostat can be installed anywhere on the fridge or outside it. I have
decided to place it on the wall behind the fridge, so that the temperature display was
easy to read at the eye-level.
I have also removed the interior light bulb, rated 15 Watts, because I avoid using
energy wasting devices as a matter of principle. I will consider installing a LED
interior illumination if I find a reason for opening my fridge in the dark.
When I finished my connections I had a chest fridge with a digital temperature display
and a temperature control at my fingertips.
o C, whileo and +10o C.Performance
I set the thermostat to +7
gadget called Sparometer. After about 2 minutes my thermostat displayed +6.5
the power to the freezer was cut off. The temperature continued to drop down to about
+4
everything happened too quickly. I took another thermometer and to my surprise, it
confirmed readings of the thermostat.
I watched the system for a few hours and then decided to move the content of my old
fridge to the new one that I have just made. Since I have never had a chest fridge in
my life – it took me some time to arrange baskets and their content inside. I placed the
most frequently used items in top baskets that slide on top edges of fridge walls. It
turned out to be a very practical idea. Not only they are very handy there, but also I
can take out the entire basket, rather than taking out one item at a time (a typical case
with a vertical door fridge).
In the first 24 hours my new chest fridge took 103 Wh (0.103 kWh) of energy. About
30% of this energy was consumed during the initial power up and re-arranging of the
fridge content. The room temperature varied from 21
night. The fridge interior temperature was kept between +4
compressor was working only for about 90 seconds per hour. When the thermostat
intervened – the fridge consumed ZERO power. The only active part was a battery
powered temperature display.
Results of my experiment exceeded all my expectations. My chest fridge consumes as
much energy in 24 hours as a 100W light bulb does in just an hour. Not only it is
energy efficient. I have never seen a fridge that was SO quiet. It only works 90
seconds or so every hour. At all other times it is perfectly quiet and consumes no
power whatsoever. My wind/solar system batteries and the power sensing inverter
simply love it. With my new chest fridge I have power to spare and I can use it to
warm up my house in winter with a heat pump. I wonder why no one has ever thought
of a chest fridge controlled by a digital thermostat…
What performance can I expect from my chest fridge during hot summer days? In
principle, the energy consumption should be proportional to thermal losses of the
fridge, which in turn are proportional to the temperature difference between the inside
and outside of the fridge. A vertical door fridge has large additional losses caused by
opening the door and the associated loss of cold air
The power consumption data for my chest fridge was measured for average 5
internal and about 18
ambient temperature rose to 31
This in turn should double the thermal losses and hence the energy consumption. In
this case I expect my fridge to work about 3 minutes per hour.
In reality, doubling the temperature difference causes slightly more than doubling of
the energy consumption, due
pump (compressor system). The larger the temperature difference between the heat
source and the heat sink, the less efficient is the heat pump.
Fortunately for those who rely on solar power, in hot summer months there is also
more solar energy to power the fridge...
It is obvious that a truly energy efficient fridge does not cost any more money than a
mediocre one. It actually costs less. It also has extra features, such as a digital
temperature display that gives you full control over the temperature settings. So -
WHY mediocre fridges are being made? Why people continue to buy and use energy
wasting devices? Does anyone care?
Nearly every household on Earth has a fridge that totally wastes at least 1 kWh of
energy a day (365 kWh a year). How much reduction in greenhouse emissions can we
achieve by banning just ONE inefficient household device in just ONE country? How
many politicians debating for how many years will it take to achieve such a ban?
Rather than waiting for someone to do something I would like to volunteer to supply
modified chest freezers and/or freezer modification kits to environmentally conscious
people of Australia. Let’s do something in the right direction right now.I would like to make one in the near future. You can buy a chest freezer online for 1000 to 2000 depending on the size but if you make one like described on this guide it would be like 500$ for the big freezer and 100$ for the 2 thermostats.
Give it a try.
FruitStripeApeo C and switched on the AC power via energy measuremento C ando C. I thought that there was something wrong with the digital display, becauseoC during the day to 15oC ato and +7o C. The fridgeoCoC average ambient temperature (13oC difference). If the averageoC, the temperature difference will double to 26oC.
A fridge that takes only 0.1 kWh a day?
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