Dan Mills turned his hobby of collecting commercial kitchen gadgets into Tinker Kitchen, a makerspace for community cooking. He joins us to talk about his inspiration for the space, why entrepreneurs need grit in the face of never-ending roadblocks, and how his very understanding girlfriend provided the (literal!) space he needed to succeed.

Links and Show Notes

• Maker culture


• CAD (Computer-aided Design)


• SketchUp


• R&D (Research and Development)


• ROI (Return on Investment)


• Pared —Making restaurant life easier


• Liquid nitrogen


• Sous vide


• Molecular Gastronomy


• Stage —“An unpaid internship when a cook or chef works briefly, for free, in another chef's kitchen to learn and be exposed to new techniques and cuisines.”


• Chez Panisse


• Opportunity cost


• Burnout


• Tinker Kitchen Kickstarter project (funded, 2018)


• Microsoft Excel


• SBA—Small Business Association


• SBDC—America’s Small Business Development Centers


• SEO—Search Engine Optimization


• Processed Food Registration (PFR) —“Processors of general food commodities (e.g. baked goods, noodles, processed fresh vegetables, seafood, snack foods, dietary supplements, etc.) must obtain a Processed Food Registration (PFR) from FDB. A PFR certificate is a firm’s basic health permit. The PFR allows firms to manufacture products not specifically covered by another FDB license.”
  
  
  
  
  • We talk more about the PFR in episode 7 with Guilianna Glassman of Alma Superfoods .
  
  


• Ideating


• Combi-Oven


• Cataplana (Portuguese tomato chorizo stew) video recipe


• Laziness, Impatience, Hubris: The Three Virtues of a Programmer


• Takeru Kobayashi


• Episode 8, The Ice Cream Atmosphere, with Lori Phillips of Rocko’s Ice Cream Tacos where Lori answers our "take a bath in what food" Wrapid Fire question (@ 56:48 ).

Our thanks to Dan for joining us. You can find him at tinkerkitchen.org, and follow him on Twitter (@tinkerkitch) and Instagram (@tinkerkitch).

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Special Guest: Dan Mills, Tinker Kitchen.