You already use knives to cook but do you really know how to use knives to, like, really cook? There’s a difference! Learning some basic knife skills and types of knives to use could make your life a lot easier in the kitchen. Shannon Lattin made an infographic about the chef’s guide to knives to get you started. More »
McDonald’s french fries are so incredibly addicting that they can’t be from this world, right? Wrong! Check out how McDonald’s makes its delicious french fries in the video above, you’ll see the farms the potatoes grow on, the massive machinery used to break them down and the good ol’ fashioned frying that makes ’em pop. I can smell the fries through YouTube. More »
Thanks to researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, you may never have to gingerly sip a hot cup of coffee again to avoid burns. Because they’ve developed a dissolvable strip that numbs the pain of a bad burn in your mouth, instead of freshening your breath. More »
If there’s two things in life I love, it’s video games and cookies. I mean, what’s not to like? Apparently, the guys over at Parchment Cookies have the same mentality, and have baked up some epic video game-inspired cookies for us to admire (and eat if we could afford them.)
These incredibly-detailed cookies are based on classic arcade and console games ranging from Galaga, to Duck Hunt, to Donkey Kong, and look great. The level of detail in the icing is spectacular, and really captures the original games in cookie form. I think my favorite set has to be the Burgertime cookies, since they’re food that depicts a video game, depicting other food – including walking hot dog and a ladder-climbing egg.
A dozen of these handmade video game cookies will set you back $54(USD), which works out to be $4.50 per cookie. I know a lot of love and labor must go into each of these, so they’re worth it. I just don’t know if I could bring myself to eat them or if I’d just frame them and hang them on the wall. Ok, I’d eat them – all in one sitting.
I’m not sure that I could bring myself to pull out a knife and start slicing into this gory skinless human head cake, but it’s still pretty awesome.
It was made by the guys over at Conjurer’s Kitchen, and offers a disturbing amount of anatomical detail. It looks like one of those “visible human” models I used to build when I was a kid, showing off all its muscle and blood vessels after its skin was peeled back. Delicious.
This gruesome, handpainted dessert was actually based on an old anatomical wax mold from the late 18th century. You can check out more pics of this disturbing, yet amazing cake over on the Conjurer’s Kitchen Facebook page. There’s no word on what the insides look like, but if I wouldn’t be surprised to find edible grey matter and blood.
[via Boing Boing via Obvious Winner]
Who doesn’t love bacon and cheese together? Yeah, it’s not exactly the healthiest of food combinations, but it sure is tasty. So if you’re interested in cutting right to the chase, and don’t want to be bothered with that pesky bread, lettuce or tomato, then here’s an idea for you…
What you’re looking at is the epic Bacon Weave grilled cheese sandwich. The guys over at DudeFoods created this low-carb, but artery-clogging wonder by carefully weaving a grid of crispy bacon together in place of toast. In the middle – a layer of melty american cheese. Et voilà! Perfection. The trick to the sandwich is pre-cooking the bacon and getting it crispy before nuking the layer of cheese in the middle.
Sure, holding bacon in your hands like this will probably leave your fingers pretty greasy, but that’s more for you (or more likely your dog) to lick off later.
[via Foodbeast]
Google is ditching the 30-point rating system it inherited from its acquisition Zagat last year because it’s just too complicated. Instead, it will replace the confounding restaurant rating math with something a bit more straightforward. More »
The Avengers have assembled once more. This time as an awesome and complicated tea cake courtesy of Nerdache Cakes in New Jersey. This edible Marvel masterpiece is adorable and extremely elaborate. It was made for the owner’s niece! Lucky girl!
The idea came about because the 3-year-old niece Jayla, brings her Avengers toys to her various tea parties. The 19-year-old aunt got the idea and made her this awesome and amazing cake. If it looks familiar that’s because it was inspired by the “Avengers Babies” art of Gurihiru!
You can’t help but be impressed by the amount of detail in this cake. I really can’t believe they ate it. I would just leave it so I could stare at it forever. Then it would just get dirty and moldy of course, so yeah, might as well eat it up.
[via The Mary Sue via Geeks Are Sexy]
If sashimi and maki are subjects you take very seriously, check out this over-the-top chopstick holster from Brandon, the incredibly talented 17-year-old behind Vanguard Armament. It ensures your personal set of chopsticks is always close at hand for those quick draw dining situations. More »
I’m really looking forward to checking out Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie. Early buzz is that it’s pretty great, and I just love Burton’s dark humor and animation style for his latest Disney flick. While we wait to get to the theater to check it out, why not relax and enjoy some cupcakes? I think I will…
These truly impressive Frankenweenie cupcakes were made by Death By Cupcakes, and feature the likenesses of all the major characters from the movie, including Mr. Rzykruski, Nassor, Elsa, Edgar, Victor, Persephone, Toshiaki, Weird Girl, and of coruse, Sparky the dog.
Each cupcake was lovingly hand-painted with incredibly accurate detail, and if they taste 1/10th as delicious as they look, I’d eat the whole plate if I could. Then I’d try to bring them back to life by jolting them with electricity them so I could eat them all over again.
[via Between the Pages]
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