Lettuce Wrap

22: Like a Gym, Except a Kitchen, with Dan Mills of Tinker Kitchen

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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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