The finished table is very large and heavy, so be prepared to have help for shifting it, if you assemble it a distance from its final location.
The kit, which sells for $195, ships flat-packed, requiring that you assemble it at home with mini Phillips-head and flathead screwdrivers.
My version of this salad uses dried beans, soaked and then boiled with onion and bay leaves, but canned cranberry beans will help you assemble it quickly.
Linea Six Foot Flocked Whistler Tree: £105, House Of Fraser Finished with a light dusting, this snowy tree looks surprisingly natural and, unlike many artificial Christmas trees, there is absolutely no mess when you assemble it.
(Significantly, the apparatus didn't function right away — no experiment ever really works the first time you try it, for the same reason that no child's toy ever works on Christmas morning, the first time you assemble it — and it was a fairly lowly assistant who eventually made the discovery).
"It ends up being about 80 pages of government forms that you put together in a packet, and there are a lot of complexities around how you assemble it," says Stoddard.
Plus, it's the ideal company-for-brunch dish because you assemble it the night before, let it sit in the fridge overnight, then just pop it in the oven when you're ready to eat.
This is the ideal brunch dish because you assemble it the night before, let it sit in the fridge overnight, then just pop it in the oven when everyone wakes up.
You don't need to put some on every time you assemble it.
Make sure you assemble it in the room where it belongs.
