Food Making Gifting Ideas

The Mad Millie Kefir kit contains all the specialised ingredients and equipment you need to make your own kefir at home.

Kefir is a delicious drink bursting with live kefir cultures. It contains eight beneficial bacteria strains, so it's good for your tummy and tastes good too! Make this healthy and easy drink in a jiffy.

• You can use low and full fat milk, soy, coconut water or fruit juice
• Just add culture, shake and leave for 24 hours
• Drink on its own, pour over cereal or add to a smoothie
• With this kit you can also make kefir cheese too
• Store cultures in the freezer in order to prolong the life

What does the kit include?

• Shelf Stable Kefir Culture (2 Sachets)
• Stainless Steel Mixing Ball
• Cheese Cloth
• 1 L Jar
• Instructions
• Recipe booklet

Make 11 different types of soft cheese with this one cheese making kit! Includes everything you need to make soft cheeses, except for common kitchen equipment and milk.

Product Overview: 
Create authentic, perfectly shaped gnocchi and homemade garganelli with the Casalinghi Gnocchi Board Multi Use. This high-quality wooden board features a grooved surface designed to form ridges on gnocchi and includes a garganelli dowel roller for rolling pasta with ease. Made from durable, eco-friendly timber, this compact tool is ideal for home cooks or professionals looking to craft traditional Italian pasta.

Specifications:

• Dimensions: 19 x 9 cm
• Material: High-quality timber
• Includes: Gnocchi board and garganelli dowel roller
• Origin: Made in Italy

Features:

• Versatile Design: Ideal for shaping gnocchi and rolling garganelli pasta.
• Grooved Surface: Helps create traditional ridges on gnocchi for enhanced sauce retention.
• Garganelli Roller: Comes with a handy dowel roller for authentic pasta-making.
• Durable Construction: Made from long-lasting, eco-friendly timber.
• Compact Size: Perfect for easy storage and use in both home and professional kitchens.

Key Benefits:

• Professional-Quality Results: Achieve perfect gnocchi ridges and neatly rolled garganelli pasta at home.
• Sustainable and Durable: Made from natural, eco-friendly timber, ensuring longevity and durability.
• Authentic Italian Experience: Adds an authentic, traditional touch to your pasta-making toolkit.

Product Overview
The Prosciutto Carving Vice with Stainless Steel Clamp-on Wood Base is a professional-grade tool designed for safely and stylishly presenting and carving Prosciutto. This vice securely holds the ham in place, allowing you to carve thin, precise slices with ease. Constructed with high-quality stainless steel and mounted on a durable wooden base, this carving vice offers both functionality and an elegant Italian design, making it ideal for home kitchens, delis, restaurants, or special events.

Specifications:

• Material: Stainless steel clamp with a wood base
• Base Dimensions: 45 cm x 27 cm x 3 cm
• Design: Elegant Italian design for professional presentation
• Usage: Ideal for carving prosciutto and other large hams
• Made in Italy

Features:

• Secure Clamping: High-quality stainless steel clamp ensures the ham is held securely for safe and efficient carving
• Elegant Wood Base: The sturdy wood base provides a stable platform and adds a stylish touch to any kitchen or dining setup
• Professional Design: Designed with a sleek Italian aesthetic, combining functionality with beautiful presentation
• Durable Construction: Built to last with robust stainless steel and premium wood materials
• Perfect for Thin Slices: Allows for precise, thin slices of prosciutto or other cured meats

Safety and Material Quality:

• Stainless Steel Clamp: Ensures secure and safe carving without slipping
• Wood Base: Provides a stable foundation for a secure cutting experience
• High-Quality Materials: Made with durable stainless steel and premium wood for long-lasting use

Cleaning and Maintenance:

• Easy to Clean: The stainless steel components can be wiped clean after use, and the wood base is easy to maintain
• Low Maintenance: Built with high-quality materials for minimal upkeep

Make your own beautiful Feta cheese with our DIY cheese making kit. This kit includes everything you need to make up to 25 batches of Feta cheese, except for common kitchen equipment and milk.

This Kit Contains:

• Instruction Booklet
• 200 mm Dairy Thermometer
• Two Feta Baskets
• Reusable Loose Weave Cheese Cloth
• 50 ml Calcium Chloride
• Rennet (Suitable for Vegetarians) (Up to 40 batches)
• Direct Set Mesophilic Hard Curd Starter Culture
• 20 cm pH test paper
• 250 gram Cheese Salt
• Free Sterile Jar

You Will Need: (most of which can be found in your kitchen)

• Stainless steel pot to place your milk in large enough to hold four litres
• A second, larger pot to place your first pot in, to act as a water jacket, so you can indirectly heat your milk (Stock Pot Set)
• Stainless steel perforated spoon
• Stainless steel curd knife
• Stainless steel ladle
• Measuring cups
• Measuring spoons
• Mini measuring spoons (optional)

How Much Does It Make?
This kit contains enough culture to make 25 batches of Feta, using 4 litres of milk each time, and will have enough rennet for up to 40 batches. Once you exhaust your consumables, you can simply re-order those ingredients and continue making beautiful homemade feta!

This Ghiro cheese grater features a classic and elegant design that keeps ensuring high quality over the years. It stands out for the high sturdiness with a die-cast aluminium hopper that makes it easy to clean, the enamel coating ensuring it is resistant to wear. The 110W electric motor ensures high power and great reliability.

The Ghiro electric grater is a kitchen appliance specifically designed for domestic / household use, for small quantities at a time. It has been designed in order to create a sturdy, functional and easy-to-use machine of long durability. Classic timeless kitchen tool of the Italian tradition. This Ghiro cheese grater features a classic and elegant design that keeps ensuring high quality over the years.

Product Overview: 
Craft delicious homemade gnocchi, garganelli, and cavatelli with the Wooden Gnocchi Board with Dowels. This high-quality board is designed with a grooved surface to easily form traditional ridges on your gnocchi or pasta. It comes with two cylindrical sticks, perfect for preparing garganelli. Made from natural wood, this 42 x 15 cm board is an essential tool for pasta enthusiasts who value authenticity and quality.

Specifications:

• Dimensions: 42 x 15 cm
• Material: Natural wood
• Includes: Gnocchi board with two cylindrical dowels for garganelli preparation
• Surface: Grooved design for shaping pasta

Features:

• Quality Wood Construction: Made from durable, natural wood, ensuring long-lasting use.
• Grooved Surface: Ideal for creating ridges on gnocchi, garganelli, and cavatelli for better sauce retention.
• Easy-Grip Handle: Provides a comfortable grip for ease of use during preparation.
• Food Safe: Constructed from food-safe materials, perfect for home cooking.
• Easy to Clean: Simply wipe clean with a dry cloth or brush after use for easy maintenance.

Key Benefits:

• Versatile Use: Shape gnocchi, garganelli, and cavatelli effortlessly with the included dowels and grooved surface.
• Durable and Natural: Made from high-quality, natural wood for long-lasting use and eco-friendliness.
• Easy to Use and Maintain: Comfortable handle and simple cleaning process make this a user-friendly tool for any kitchen.

Now all it takes is 15 minutes to make your daily artisan sourdough loaf. With the Mad Millie 15 Minute Sourdough Kit, you have all the specialised tools, ingredients and know-how to make your daily loaf. And what more? There is no experience or kneading required!

Simply mix flour, artisan salt, and the instant sourdough starter culture together with water in a bowl using the specialised dough. Whisk the mixture, cover and allow to ferment and rise for approximately 20 hours before baking in a covered oven dish.

The beautiful sourdough is fresh with a hard crispy crust and light airy centre. Smack some fresh, homemade butter, olive oil, or your favourite bread toppings and enjoy your home-made sourdough.

Included in the kit are:

• Recipes for original, wholemeal, fruit loaf, gluten-free sourdough
• Instant Sourdough Starter Culture (enough for up to 6 x 500 g loaves)
• Note: You can use one culture sachet to make a double batch of sourdough.
• Artisan Salt
• Muslin Cloth
• Dough Scraper
• Dough Whisk
• Instructions

Product Overview
The VS-C1-1 Food Vacuum Sealer is a modern, commercial-grade vacuum sealer designed to preserve food freshness up to five times longer than conventional storage methods. Its sleek black stainless steel design is perfect for both professional kitchens and home use. With heavy-duty dual pump technology and various settings for different food types, this vacuum sealer makes food preservation easier than ever.

Technical Specifications:

• Model Name: Pro-line Vacuum Sealer Commercial
• Power Supply: 220-240V ~ 50Hz, 130W
• Vacuum Pressure: Max. -0.90 Bar
• Air Extraction Volume: 20 Litres/Min
• Product Dimensions: W 200 x L 400 x H 120 mm
• Product Weight: 2.8kg
• Maximum Bag Width: 30cm

Customer Notice:
Please note that the delivery packaging may differ from the machine’s dimensions as this is a fragile product and requires special handling for safe transport.

Features:

1. Dual Pump Technology
   The heavy-duty DC motor and dual pump system offer powerful suction, perfect for commercial use. It ensures faster, more efficient vacuum sealing.

2. Multiple Sealing and Pressure Settings
   With 3 sealing time settings (dry, moist, extended) and 2 pressure settings (normal, gentle), it’s easy to customize for different food types, ensuring the best possible preservation.

3. Marinate and Pulse Vacuum Functions
   The marinate function helps to quickly infuse flavours into your food, while the pulse vacuum option offers greater control when dealing with delicate items.

4. Convenience Features
   Includes an internal roll holder with a cutting bar, removable drip tray, and an accessory hose for canister use, all designed for ease of use and efficiency.

5. Durable and Stylish Design
   The modern black stainless steel body makes it both durable and stylish, perfect for any kitchen setup.

Safety and Material Quality:
The removable drip tray ensures cleanliness, while the durable stainless steel body provides long-lasting performance.

Cleaning and Maintenance:
The internal vacuum sealer roll holder and removable drip tray make it easy to clean and maintain.

Customer Notice:
One cycle consists of packaging a bag and vacuum sealing it. The maximum bag width is 30cm. Due to manufacturing alterations, the actual product may vary slightly from the picture.

Warranty Information:
We provide warranty under Australian Consumer Law.

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This is, quite simply, the best, most spectacular and most accessible barbecue book ever written.

It is witty, but it is also wise: bursting with innovative ideas, simple explanations, and examples of the techniques that will turn your backyard barbecue meals into masterpieces.

This is, quite simply, the best, most spectacular and most accessible barbecue book ever written.

It is witty, but it is also wise: bursting with innovative ideas, simple explanations, and examples of the techniques that will turn your backyard barbecue meals into masterpieces.

With exquisite pictures by ace food photographer Dean Cambray, Heat & Smoke has been masterminded and written by Melbourne barbecue guru Bob Hart who will take you, step by step, through the processes involved in getting much, much more from your backyard endeavours and dealing - in innovative and delectable ways - with all of your favourite barbecue ingredients, as well as many you may not have considered.

Beef, pork, lamb and chicken feature. But so do such things as mussels cooked in a way that will astonish you, calamari seared over coals, salmon cooked on cedar planks, vegetables transformed into feature dishes, cheeses made meltingly delicious and an array of enchanting barbecued fruit creations. Read and absorb Heat & Smoke, and your backyard will never taste the same again: your kitchen, in fact, may well become the quietest room in the house.

Make delicious dairy free coconut yoghurt at home with the Mad Millie Coconut Yoghurt Kit. It contains all the specialised ingredients and equipment you need. And you do not need any yoghurt making experience.

Make dairy free Coconut Yoghurt that is bursting with a delicious flavour. The yoghurt recipe also contains tangy beneficial live cultures. Great to use on your morning muesli, smoothie, or flakes.

• This kit makes up to 8 L of Coconut Yoghurt 
• Coconut Yoghurt contains three active bacteria strains
• No artificial flavours and preservatives.
• It is a perfect kit for beginners 
• Store cultures in the freezer to prolong the life

What's in the kit?

• 1 L Glass Jar
• Thermometer
• Dairy Free Yoghurt Culture
• Thickener (thickener made from organic tapioca, organic guar and GMO free maltodextrin (sourced from corn)
• Recipe booklet - use your Coconut Yoghurt in a Chia Seed Pudding or Coconut Yoghurt Smoothie
• Instructions sheet

In recent years there has been an explosion in the artisan cheese movement and a kitchen crafting revival. Artisan Cheese Making at Home inspires and encourages do-it-yourselfers with approachable, easy-to-follow instructions to produce mouthwatering cheese at home.

From quick and satisfying ricotta and panir to higher payoff cheeses like triple creme camembert, taleggio, and blue gouda-all of the featured cheeses can be made with readily available milks and common kitchen equipment.

While most other cheese books take a homey approach to cheese making, this comprehensive, four-colour tome embraces the full range of contemporary artisan-style cheeses and is destined to become a modern classic. 

Artisan Cheese Making at Home begins with a primer covering milks, starters, cultures, natural coagulants, and bacteria—everything the beginner needs to get started.

The heart of the book is a master class in home cheese making: building basic skills with fresh cheeses like ricotta and working up to developing and aging complex mould-ripened cheeses. Also covered are techniques and equipment, including drying, pressing, and brining, as well as moulds and ripening boxes.

Last but not least, there is a full chapter on cooking with cheese that includes more than twenty globally-influenced recipes featuring the finished cheeses, such as Goat Cheese and Chive Fallen Soufflés with Herb-Citrus Vinaigrette and Blue Cheese, Bacon, and Pear Galette. 

Franco Manca's owners, Giuseppe Mascoli and Bridget Hugo, know that the best pizza in Italy comes from Naples and therefore they have gone back to Giuseppe's Neopolitan roots, where making pizza is all about simple things (bread, tomato, cheese) and simple steps (make the dough, let it rise, flatten it, add topping, bake in the oven), all using the best ingredients to produce pizza of exceptional quality.

Aimed at the home cook who doesn't have a traditional woodburning oven, Giuseppe and Bridget have tailored their recipes so you can use an iron pan or a heavy baking tray and still get great results.

Their famous, slow-rising sourdough recipe produces a soft and easily digestible crust, there are 50-60 recipes with seasonal variations, plus fritti (fried starters) and salads and also tips and techniques for making your own flavoured oils, preserving your tomatoes and curing your own meat. Without a doubt, this is the closest you'll come to the real deal in your home kitchen, and in your personal quest for perfect pizza.