Believe it or not, your success when baking bread relies heavily on the bowl you mix and allow your dough to rise in.
Glass, pottery or ceramic is best.
Plastic, on the other hand, is the worst.
Plastic bowls often hide bacteria, flavors and smells in tiny surface nicks. The bacteria alone can kill your yeast culture. [...]

The Heart of Your Home
If you have the notion that you’d love a woodstove in your home or in your kitchen, there’s a few things I want to share with you.
Yes, it is wonderful to get off the grid, even if by just a little. Home heating and home cooking eats up a lot of [...]

Below I’ll share with you the process and tools involved in making wine at home. You can find more information and resources here – make homemade wine.

The Process Behind Homemade Wine
On a previous page we discussed how to make a variety of homemade wines. The top two choices of how to make wine [...]

Fermentation of homemade wine is one of the first principles you must understand when taking up this hobby.
Fermentation is the process by which the ‘must’ (the primary, soon-to-be-wine mixture) turns into wine. Oddly enough, even though the process is vital to our success, we have little to no control over it.
Our primary concern is in [...]

Have you ever tasted a bottle of homemade wine? It is either delicious or just awful isn’t it? At goodbyecitylife.com we’ve taken tips and tricks from wine making experts who have made both — and learned how to avoid the awful variety.
To be honest I’ve personally made both kinds of homemade wine. More often than [...]

The Most Common Problems with Homemade Wine and How to Prevent Them
The problems most common with homemade wine batches are wild yeasts and acetic bacteria.
Acetic bacteria converts alcohol into acetic acid and could turn your carefully prepared wine must to vinegar. Sadly enough acetic bacteria is present in the air everywhere.
This is also true of [...]

At some time or another in your life you likely wondered how to make wine and if you could do it at home.
Perhaps you’ve even ordered a make wine at home kit, or found a local wine-making store nearby and tried one of their kits.
If so, you were delighted with the results. Delighted enough to [...]

In the quest to eat healthier, more and more people have become interested in making their own food, and goat cheese is no exception!
As a matter of fact, over 800 people a month hit the search engines looking for a goat cheese recipe!
Goat cheese is highly nutritious and great for both children and adults who [...]

Can you believe for a moment that you can make your own butter without growing muscles the size of the Incredible Hulk?
It’s true. There’s a modern way to make butter that is easy on the arms and tastes just as good as butter in the old days on the farm.
This modern-day tried and true ‘how [...]