Mar 05
You’re already staring down a sink full of dirty dishes after cooking dinner, the last thing you need is to have to clean the stove too after a pot boils over. And while your cookware probably came with lids
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Feb 28
We’ve probably all made a few pancakes in amusingly shaped blobs, but Nathan Shields takes pancake to a whole new level of art. The illustrator, former math teacher, and stay-at-home dad makes pancakes with his kids that range from Star Wars tributes to portraits of Isaac Newton to animals painted in stunning species-level detail.
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Feb 28
If you fall on the charcoal-is-better-than-propane side of the grilling fence, you won’t care much about Quirky’s Refuel App-Enabled Propane Tank. But if you like to cook with gas, it’ll seem like a godsend.
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Feb 27
It’s a while since IBM’s Watson was put to work inventing recipes
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Feb 25
When you live in a closet-sized city apartment, it’s no fun to cook in a teeny, tiny cramped kitchen. But a kitchen completely hidden behind lovely wood cabinets when not in use? That’s kind of ingenious.
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Feb 20
I’m just a simple guy. I can’t decipher scientific jargon. I can’t recite more than like four digits of Pi, etc. And I’m okay with that. But if you do know an egghead or are one yourself, check out these neat brainy cutting boards for science types.
These lovely works of art on wood come from Gerald and Summer at Elysium Woodworks, a woodworking studio in Santa Rosa, California. They make custom cutting boards that have scientific themes, and they’re quite reasonably priced – $35 for an 8″ x 12″ board, and $45 for a 10″ x 15″.
Minds brighter than mine will certainly appreciate the math, astronomy and chemistry designs on these while they are cooking up dinner.
I do agree that Pluto is a planet.
[via Neatorama]
Feb 13
I have a confession: My brother and I destroyed my Easy-Bake Oven. I had the 1981 Mini-Wave model, the boxy, yellow microwave style, which was, in my 7-year-old mind, the only kind of Easy-Bake there was. One day, my 4-year-old brother had a brilliant idea—to "cook" a green plastic steak from our 1972 Mattel Tuff Stuff Play Food set. After all, we should be able to cook a steak, right? It fit into the slot perfectly, and for some reason, I didn’t try to stop him. The plastic steak, of course, gave off a noxious odor as it melted inside the machine. Goodbye, Easy-Bake Oven. Goodbye, little round chocolate cakes we loved to bake and eat.
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Feb 12
Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to make a restaurant-caliber meal at home—especially if you just realized it’s on Friday and there are no good dinner reservations left. Modernist cooking enlists techniques that require less active time cooking, while still producing rich flavors—just the sort of thing needed to create a memorable dinner that you can actually enjoy making.
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Feb 01
For a lot of us, just thinking about the Super Bowl elicits a craving for deep-fried goodness. If you’re without a dedicated fryer, don’t fear. Modernist Cuisine at Home will show you how to achieve the same effect with a handful of conventional kitchen tools you just might have lying around.
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Jan 27
Cooking is rarely about using perfectly precise portions—so Umbra designed this clever spice rack with a set of six cylindrical containers, each with its own adjustable ring that lets you shake out as much seasoning as you need. Or, you can simply remove the cap to grab a tried-and-true pinch of whatever spice the recipe calls for.
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