Somehow, in a post about a handy fermenter from the Farmer’s Kitchen, I failed to put up this shamelessly cute picture of our cat, Trout, interfering with the photo session.
If you’d like more proof that the internet is some kind of million typing monkey/non-linear/collective unconsciousness generation machine, try typing “cat and sauerkraut” into Google. You get a fluffy and deaf white cat who loves sauerkraut. We can now consider that long experiment in human civilization complete.
Mrs. Homegrown was poking around her computer and found an old image we had intended to use for Krautfest 2009. It’s sort of a sauerkraut meets heavy metal t-shirt concept complete with nonsensical umlauts. So we decided to revive the image as an actual t-shirt available in the Root Simple cafe press store. Kraut on!
From the June 1930 issue of Modern Mechanics:
Automatic Food Cooker Runs by Exhaust Heat of Car
Meals can literally be cooked on the run through the use of the automatic cooker shown in the photo above. The cooker is mounted on the rear bumper of the motor tourist’s car and an extension from the exhaust pipe connected up with it, as shown in the insert. The cooker contains a steam pressure kettle which is heated by the hot exhaust gases. An hour’s drive is quite sufficient to thoroughly cook meats and vegetables. Total weight of the unit is so slight that running qualities of the car remain quite unaffected. Motor tours are much more pleasant when one is assured of a well-prepared meal at the end of the trip.
Thanks to the Los Angeles Master Food Preservers for the tip on this oddball bit of history.
“Reaching for oranges, Cawston Ostrich Farm, So Pasadena, CA.” Ostriches seemed to be a big tourist attraction in the early 20th century. This place also featured a “solar motor”–click to bigulate:
Personally, I’d much rather visit the Cawston Ostrich Farm than Disneyland.
So this microwave has a “personal choice” button right next to the popcorn setting.
No determinism button. I think this proves something.
