Best DIY Food Kits

Make Your Own At Home, a company based out of Lockport, NY, offers a variety of food kits to help customers make their own food creations at home. You can purchase kits to make everything from mustard to sodas to bubble gum, but some of their most popular items are their sausage-making kits. Choose from Italian, German, Polish, or Summer Sausage varieties. Purchase whatever ground meat you prefer, then use the kit's curing supplies, spices, and casings to create delicious sausages. Each kit comes with enough supplies to make 30 pounds of sausage!

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Average Joe Artisan Bread has only been in business for about a year, but it is attracting a wide base of customers for its easy-to-use bread-making kits. The company's most popular kit, The Cook's Edition, is the simplest and least expensive option to get you started in the amazingly complex world of bread baking. At only $39, it's affordable and perfect for the cook who already has kitchen tools like measuring cups, spoons, bowls, and other basics, but still needs special ingredients like bread flour and yeast. It also comes with Average Joe's cookbook and a handy cheat sheet. For the real novice, think about purchasing the Gift Edition, which comes with all the same ingredients and recipes as the Cook's Edition, but also includes a bread pot and all the basic utensils.

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Urban Cheesecraft sells its popular cheese-making kits online through Etsy, Williams-Sonoma, and its company web site, as well as in Whole Foods Markets across the country. The company has sold about 12,000 kits already this year, and offers easy kits for the beginner cheese maker in four different varieties: Chevre Goat, Mozzarella and Ricotta, Paneer and Queso Blanco, and the Deluxe Kit, which includes recipes and supplies for making all five types of cheese. Urban Cheesecraft's kits provide you with all the tools you need to make rich, creamy cheeses, including cheesecloth, vegetarian rennet, a food-safe thermometer, and instructions — all you need to supply is the milk!

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Yogurt is a food you might never think to make at home, but it's actually quite easy — all you need is a starter. Cultures for Health sells a variety of live cultures to help you make homemade yogurt, as well as other foods that require cultures, like tofu, kefir, sourdough, and buttermilk. Starters are what give these foods their distinctively tangy flavor, and Cultures for Health offers different starters depending on the type and flavor of yogurt you wish to make. Choose from Traditional, Mild, Greek, Bulgarian, and even Vegan yogurt starters, among others. For a full list of products and flavor options, or information on other food products and kits, check out the company's web site.

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Kombucha is essentially a tea product with live, active cultures in it. Because it includes live cultures, kombucha requires a starter or a mother, much like yogurt or sourdough. Though that can sound daunting to deal with at home, Oregon Kombucha, a company that's been selling kombucha-making kits for three years now, makes it easy for DIY fanatics to try making this healthy drink. The Basic Starter Kit comes with organic tea and the live cultures, and the Complete Kit also comes with organic sugar — all you need to add is boiling water.

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Brooklyn Brew Shop's stylish beer-making kits are designed especially for city folks with small living spaces — though of course anyone, with any size home, can make delicious-tasting beer with one of the shop's many kit options. Beginner beer makers can choose from a variety of types of this much-loved beverage, including an IPA and a summer wheat, plus more unique flavors, like a Chocolate Maple Porter and a Grapefruit Honey Ale. All kits include enough ingredients to make one gallon of beer.

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Mr. Beer was started in 1993 as a beer-focused company. But to ensure they have a fun DIY kit for everyone, whatever their ages or preferences, Mr. Beer branched out from alcoholic beers and ciders to provide a classic soda — a traditionally-flavored root beer — as one of its beverage-making kit options. Thus, Mr. Root Beer was born! The Root Beer Kit comes with everything from flavor crystals and extracts to bottling supplies and labels. It makes two gallons of deliciously frothy, full-flavored root beer.

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The first U.S. company to offer a bubble tea-making kit for home use, Bubble Tea Supply will send delicious flavor powders, tapioca pearls, and all the ingredients you need to make bubble tea in your kitchen. You can purchase a basic kit (pictured here) with a few flavors, or a party kit with seven flavor powders. Each kit includes both black and green jasmine teas, quick-cooking tapioca, and those giant straws that are the perfect size for sucking up the chewy pearls.

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If you grew up watching your grandma can fresh fruits and vegetables every summer — or if you just wish you had — and would like to learn how to make your own jams, pickles, and other canned goods at home, the Ball Home Canning Discovery Kit can help. Designed for the novice canner, this kit has everything you need to can small batches of your favorite foods except for the fruits and veggies themselves. The kit includes three one-pint canning jars, a rack, and a book of recipes and instructions. More experienced canners can look for Ball's Fresh Preserving Kit, which includes a water bath canner and more tools to easily create big batches of homemade canned goodies.

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