Video: Sound Artist Liz Phillips Makes A Screamin' Meal
It's easy to take for granted how marvelously our senses work together to give definition to the world around us. Having the ability to see, for example, is one excuse to make every movie a 3D movie;...
View ArticleIndustrial Food Machine Video of the Day: Toasting and Frying Taco Shells
Tacos are the best. Broken taco shells from the box (if I am too lazy to fry up some fresh ones) are not the best. Taco shells must be handled with care, from beginning to end. This machine, one of...
View ArticleHow to Copy the Great Mineral Waters of Europe At Home
The mineral composition of water varies subtly, almost imperceptibly, from place to place. Variation in bedrock makes the effervescent springs at Vergeze, France, where Hannibal allegedly found a...
View ArticleVideo: Introducing Burritobot, the 3-D Printer that Fabricates With Frijoles...
The beauty and promise of 3-D printing is really all tied to the end-user experience--if you can think of something, you can have it made specifically the way you want it to suit any specific need....
View ArticleVideo: Build Your Own Food Helper Gadgets
Isn't it a pain when you forget to stir your soup and it scorches? Or when you're trying to play Madden whilst hungry, but you need both hands on the controller? Ben Heckendorn, game device modder...
View ArticleVideo: Learn to Cook a Steak by Cooking Bizarre Imaginary Steaks
How do you learn to cook a steak? Some people might say "attempt to cook a steak." Those people are living in the past! What you should do is rig a system of wires and pulleys and augmented reality...
View ArticleYour Scrambled Eggs Are Wrong, And Other Cooking Science Lessons From...
I learned how to cook the day I opened my first issue of Cook's Illustrated. Phrases like Maillard reaction and gluten development and Best Blueberry Pancakes flowed across pages adorned with...
View ArticleMake Your Own Small-Batch, Artisanal High Fructose Corn Syrup
Think of corn on a hot summer's day. Sweet, delicious, all-American corn. It's stuck in your teeth and you barely care, as your practiced jaw scrapes the pure taste of the season from the cob. Now...
View ArticleThe Secret, 'Vaguely Racist' History Of MSG Fear-Mongering
Looking for a nice long-form article to read this weekend? We recommend you head over to BuzzFeeᴅ and check out this feature on the history of MSG—the much and unfairly maligned naturally occurring...
View ArticleBug-Inspired Candy Boats Add Science To Your Cocktail
After attending a Harvard series on food and science, MIT mathematician John Bush and molecular gastronomist José Andres got together and decided to collaborate on…
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