Gardening. A timeless hobby.
If you´ve never planted your own fruits or vegetables, you should definitely give it a try. A great way to grow chard, carrots or lettuce is using raised beds, which have become increasingly popular in recent years. But why actually? In addition to its comfortable working and harvesting height, a raised bed - if properly installed - keeps pests of all kinds away without using chemicals or poisons: Slugs can be easily deterred with copper tape or coffee grounds, and rodents can be kept from reaching the bed with rabbit wire. Those who take raised bed sustainability seriously use tools made from sustainable materials for gardening, such as the Redecker planting wood or the pricking stick made from untreated beech wood. All enthusiastic gardeners will be happy - even with-out a raised bed! - about the new planting clips and planting plugs. Everything you need for a great time in the garden with the right tools!

Everything used to be better. No! Of course not! But a few things...
Building a large clay wrapped pizza or bread oven in the yard is not that difficult - the internet is teeming with instructions. In the past there were such big ovens in the centre of the village, mostly near the village well. After the oven was heated up, many families could bake their bread there and exchange news and experience a lot of community. Why not revive this wonderful tradition? Build an oven in the garden! Heat it up! Invite all your neighbours and friends to bake delicious breads, pizzas, cakes and much more in the once-heated oven! The thanks and many tasty samples are certain.
Professionals use the Redecker oven slider, the oven broom and - to coat the breads with water or the pastry with butter - of course the Redecker baking brushes. Have fun!

More and more people in Germany, even in the big cities, are learning and practising beekeeping again.
The situation for the bees has therefore already improved on a small scale, but pesticides, monocultures and the Varroa mite are still affecting the colonies. The right Redecker product for all beekeepers is the bee broom, which has been tried and tested many times in daily use, with which the bees are carefully "stroked down" by the wax plates pulled out of the hive. If you do not necessarily want to become a beekeeper, you can also use the brush for dusting large areas ...

Oven vegetables? We have them all the time. Pumpkin soup? Tried it out in all its variations. What else can you do with fresh vegetables, possibly even from your own garden? We're on a fermentation kick.

Fermentation: a healthy vitamin kick for thousands of years

Fermented foods have been part of our daily diet for thousands of years. Wine, beer, sourdough bread and cheese are probably their most prominent representatives. But "preserved" vegetables such as sauerkraut are also among the fermented delicacies and are still far too seldom homemade - yet it is so easy! The sauerkraut bought in the supermarket is ­usually mixed with spirit vinegar and ­pasteurised (highly heated) - unfortunately, this means that the positive effects of the probiotic bacteria that are produced during fermentation are lost. The "good" living lactic acid bacteria help us to keep our intestinal flora healthy. Vegetables can be easily turned into delicious, wholesome raw food through lactic acid fermentation - and can even be kept for a very long time through fermentation.

How do you do it? Cut a fresh organic white cabbage or pointed cabbage into quarters and slice into not too thin strips with a vegetable slicer, cutting out the stalk generously and wedge-shaped ­beforehand. Place in a large bowl and mix with natural sea salt (preferably not industrially produced vacuum salt or salt with anti-caking agents!) (1 teaspoon of salt per kilo of vegetables). The salt is now worked in vigorously by hand until the cabbage has drawn water and no more grains of salt can be felt. Now use the Redecker potato masher: Fill a previously sterilised preserving jar (our jar 857061 is perfect) with layer after layer from the bowl and compact each layer with the potato masher. Alternatively, our jar attachments 857038 or 857044 can be used to shave and mash vegetables with a little salt directly into the jar.

If the vegetables were fresh, so much liquid is produced that they are covered with a layer of brine in the jar and nothing peeks out. This is important - otherwise the wrong bacteria will win and everything will spoil. Within 2-3 days, the exciting process begins that turns cabbage & co. into delicious sauerkraut: friendly bacteria come out of nowhere and turn the liquid into adelicious pickling brine that preserves the vegetables and makes them digestible even raw; carbon dioxide is produced in the process. Depending on the fermentation activity, the screwed-on lid should therefore be opened from time to time so that it can escape. After about 2 weeks, the sauerkraut is ready and can be cooked with bay leaf, a clove, a spoonful of honey and a dash of white wine or sparkling wine. Unfortunately, we don't do this because we have already eaten the healthy snack raw. The best thing is that this works not only with various types of cabbage, but also with almost all root vegetables, even courgettes or carrots can be refined in this way and enjoyed raw or cooked. They keep for weeks!

Now that we have used our new potato masher for this purpose, we would like to point out its original purpose: It ­mashes cooked potatoes with butter and milk in the pot to silky mashes, but can also be used for raw dumplings: The raw grated potatoes go into our dumpling bag, the masher is used to "drive out" moisture and starch. The grated ­potatoes can then be further processed into raw dumplings or potato puffs. The starch that settles at the ­bottom of the liquid goes back into the dumpling ­batter. Alternatively, you can also use the "bag masher" to juice berries... All in all, our new masher is quite versatile, isn't it?

What a day! When we tried out the new pasta tools in the Redecker test kitchen (which is our own at home ;-), we quickly realized: We have a new passion! We don't need complicated pasta machines, just our hands and excellent hand tools made of wood and food-safe aluminum or stainless steel. We found the contact with the product – the dough – just right and wonderfully relaxing, almost meditative!

Our pasta tools come directly from Italy and are also made there. Where else would they come from? Incidentally, the legend that explorer Marco Polo ­actually brought pasta to Italy from Asia is not true: pasta already existed in Europe before his time, probably even long before the turn of the millennium in the year 0.
There are countless dough recipes for homemade fresh pasta (which simply cannot be compared with conventional dried industrial pasta).

Here is ours:
Pasta al Jana (for 8 persons)
400 g flour (type 405)
75 g durum wheat semolina
12 egg yolks (size L)
4 tbsp cold water
2 tsp extra virgin olive oil

The dough is kneaded, left 30 min. to rest and then rolled out flat with a ­rolling pin ­to suit the type of pasta. Then, for example, the ingenious ­rolling pins (the name is right!) are used to cut the pasta dough into more or less narrow strips for pappardelle, tagliatelle or 3mm ­spaghetti (our favorite!). Depending on the recipe and desired consistency, dry the pasta strips briefly on the pasta dryer before placing them in boiling ­salted water – never use too little ­water, never put the lid on! After two to four minutes, the pasta is ready and jumps out of the pot straight into the sauce prepared in the pan.

Our favorites:

• Good (!) sea salt butter, pepper, salt, fresh sage (al burro da salvia …)
• only slightly heated good olive oil in which garlic, a few diced onions and peppers have been sautéed (al peperoncino; if you add fresh or canned tomatoes, capers and/or green pepper, you can call it all'arrabiata)
• a long-cooked tomato sauce made from good fresh or canned tomatoes with garlic, onions and lots of fresh herbs (the "sugo version")
• at the end (and this applies to almost all variations): freshly grated or shaved Parmigiano Reggiano cheese on top ... and black pepper.

The first handcrafted Redecker brushes were produced in 1935. A lot has changed since then. Today, the name Redecker stands, as it has for many years, for an ideal combination of natural quality, function, and design. It lives from our very own blend of inventiveness, sound craftsmanship, and creativity.

Redecker is a family – and a company. They go together hand in hand, and sometimes you cannot really tell where one ends and the other begins. Next to the “seniors” Jutta and Gernot Redecker, the company is now also managed by the two “juniors” Felix (son) and Jana (daughter-in-law). The business is managed jointly. Wherever a need for discussion arises, a decision is made together, we work, laugh, and live through it …

Who would have thought this day would come when the brush maker „Friedel – the Boss” Redecker, father of today‘s senior boss Gernot Redecker, passed away in 1986? Nobody – least of all Jutta and Gernot Redecker, who sold off the “Bosses” leftover brooms and brushes from the workshop on
small markets with unexpected success.

Other markets and more sales success followed because the two of them (Jutta and Gernot) had decided in the meantime to give up the occupations they had trained for and immerse themselves in the art of brush making. It was an art which “Friedel,” who had been blind since childhood, had passed on to all the family members with great heart and soul.

Over the years, the business grew from small market stalls to the first regular customers and all the way to international companies. It became the company which celebrated its 80-year anniversary in 2015 and that you know today.

Hopefully it will continue to flourish – after all, the next generation is already here ...

The fact that it is not only beautiful, but also practical – that it is not only practical, but also beautiful

That our products have a function and not merely meant to expand our selection.

That we always make sure to use natural, renewable resources when we select our materials.

That we consistently stay true to our philosophy every time we develop a new product concept, something that you can tell in every one of our items.

That every product is critically inspected and thoroughly tested by every family member and also by employees before it even makes it into our catalogue.

That we, along with our employees, have an appreciation for. the products – which means everyone enjoys their work and looks forward to the future of our company.

We firmly believe that quality and sustainability always prove themselves and that this must, and eventually will, become more and more important in our “throwaway society.”

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