May 24
With Soylent to eat (or I guess drink)
May 24
Oh gluten, the least trendy protein of our time. As gluten-free has transcended science and exploded into diet fad, scientists increasingly suspect that gluten intolerance—apart from actual celiac disease—doesn’t exist at all. The true culprit could be a group of carbohydrates, including one in wheat called fructan.
May 23
Pink Slime Is Back
Posted in: Today's Chili
Remember the great "pink slime" panic of 2012? Well, it’s back—both pink slime and the ridiculous panic surrounding it.
Dec 09
The Science of Taste Or: Why Dry-Aged Meat Is So Damned Delicious
Posted in: science, Today's Chili, top
Dry-aged meat is crazy expensive. But oh man is it delicious. The dean of food science writers, Harold McGee, writes in Lucky Peach Issue 2 about what makes it taste so good—and what makes other things taste, well, not so good. More »
Nov 01
7 Tools to Keep That Sugar High Going
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It’s November 1st, which means you’re going to have to wait an entire year for the opportunity to dress up like a serial killer and harass your neighbors for free candy, without police intervention. In the meantime, here are seven gadgets to satiate your sweet tooth and keep that sugar high going. More »
Oct 31
Taste tests are fun — unless you’re in Italy, in which case they’re drawn-out and rancorous. That’s why scientists in Milan are trying to remove humans from the equation, by using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to reveal objective “metabolomic fingerprints” for different foodstuffs instead. In their latest experiment, NMR succeeded in predicting how human testers would judge 18 different canned tomato products, including sensory descriptors such as bitterness, saltiness, “redness” and density. Like Caesar always said, technology that knows a good ragu is technology we can trust.
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Oct 28
Prison is a sad, cold, horrible place to be. What reminds you of home more than a hot, home-cooked meal? Nothing. Since these prisoners can’t go home— Maybe ever—they have to bring home to the cell block. More »
Oct 27
Not only is this fully functional rotisserie small enough to be used indoors, it actually folds down to a briefcase sized package that could even be stashed in the overhead bins on a plane. That ‘no smoking’ sign in the bathroom only pertains to cigarettes, right? More »
Oct 04
NTT DoCoMo bad breath, body fat and food analyzers hands-on (video)
Posted in: accessories, ceatec, Japan, mobilepostcross, prototype, Today's Chili
It’s been a busy year for NTT DoCoMo’s research and development division, with the company presenting a goldmine of future accessories at its CEATEC booth. We’re not seeing anything terribly exciting in the smartphone department, beyond a wider adoption of Android, but from the battery with a 10-minute charge time that we saw yesterday to the bad breath, hunger, body fat and food analyzers that you’ll find below, there are certainly quite a few gadgets worth checking out. We’re bundling a few of them here, so jump past the break for our hands-ons with three different health accessories (including a bad breath analyzer!) and a clever food analyzing app.
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Sep 26
Just because we’ve been cooking delicious food for centuries doesn’t mean we should stop innovating. Technology and science are driving cooking’s latest wave, yielding delicious results in the process. Here are seven tools that will make you a master chef. More »
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