Josh is a potter, open source programmer, avid food geek, former pastry chef, and serious home cook. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Join Fuzzychef Pottery on December 8 for the 4th annual Hanukkah Craft Market at Leikam Brewing! As always, we will have local artists and crafters, many with a Hanukkah theme. And Leikam will have kosher beer, including the new Holiday Macca Beer. Artists with their wares include: FuzzyChef Pottery (me…
Read MoreLots of potters by now are familiar with the Ball Opener tool, popularized by Tom Whitaker. Speedball even has a version for sale, although I'd argue that it's inferior to one you make yourself from PVC. I use ball openers when I make matched sets, because making sure that the…
Read MoreA little while ago the Washington Post taste-tested various "fake bacon" products -- which I'm hereafter calling "facon" -- with some surprising results. They decided that supermarket-standard brand Morningstar Farms (see endnote) was actually pretty good, and worked as a reasonably convincing facsimile of fried bacon. This was doubly surprising…
Read MoreIt's now late summer, and if you have a vegetable garden like I do, you're festooned with a glut of tomatoes. Maybe you've already made gazpacho, fresh tomato sauce, Turkish salad, and more tomato things. The tomatoes keep coming in from the gardent. It's time for something French: a tomato…
Read MoreI was having a serious problem with my new plaster bats. They're tall enough to raise the throwing surface above the edge of the splash pan on my standing wheel. This was resulting in a fair amount of slip spatter on the walls: It's a clay studio, so a little…
Read MoreSpring vegetables are in, and around our house that means salads and pasta. With enough veggies, you can have both in one bowl. You could call this a "pasta primavera", I suppose, although that name has been abused enough that I'd just as well rather not. I'll give you an…
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