Tofu anyone?

Here is something you can make from wood that will make your cooking adventures much more adventurous. Years ago my friend Choan Stanley made this for another friend Jan Brown. It is a tofu press with hand-cut dovetails for making your own tofu. In case you don't know about tofu, you should investigate it. While some regard tofu as yuck, you can prepare wonderful dishes from it, use it as a source of environmentally responsible protein, reduce global warming, amaze and/or gross out your friends, while having great fun making your own. This tofu press is being loaned by Jan to my daughter Lucy for her Columbia University tofu making delight.

If you are interested in making a product that will enhance the lives of others in your community, or broaden the understanding of those with whom you will share Christmas, I will be glad to take dimensions and give basic instructions so you can make tofu presses, either for yourself, or to share as gifts to others. As a special gift to yourself, you will gain a useful skill that would serve well beyond our time of recession.

There is a lot of information available on the web about how to make tofu. This video shows the starting process before the press is called into action: