BoingBoing, via Kottke, points us to this ooooold article from Serious Eats back in March of 2007 that explores broiling pizza at home using, of all things, Domino’s pizza dough. From the initial conversation with Domino’s through the process of finding the right way get the oven up to temperature.
I won’t give away any of [...]
EcoRenovator has a post on how to make a fridge that runs on 100Wh of energy per day. It’s links to a PDF by Tom Chalko* that basically shows you how to modify a chest freezer to operate in temperature ranges.
The nice thing about the fridge is that, when you open the door, the cold [...]
Okay, this should be the final installment of my Chili saga, for a while, but it’s an important one. This is your basic, all-purpose* chili powder. No fancy caraway, no dedicated mole to match with it. Just pure chili powder.
Ingredients
6 oz. Dried Chiles, seeded and cut lengthwise into 1-inch wide strips
2.5 oz. Cumin Seeds, whole
.25 [...]
The Ideas in Food folk, Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot, have a regular food science column called “Kitchen Alchemy.” The most recent one I’ve seen is Making Vinegar at Home. As we have discussed, I’m a big fan of making things that people normally don’t think they can make, and vinegar definitely qualifies. This [...]
Thinking back to the old Kitchen Computer idea of yore, one of the important aspects of it is being able to monitor, in depth, the temperature of, well, everything in the chain of the food. So, obviously the food itself should be monitored, the cooking environment, the cooling environment, and the resting environment. This will [...]
One of my favorite things to do is to make things that people don’t normally think to make. If you only know of something as a bottle or a can in a grocery store, then it’s entirely likely that you need to try making it at home at least once, to see what it really [...]
Remember when I said I had to stop myself from posting anything that comes across khymos.org and Ideas in Food? Apparently Make is one of those, as well, at least for their food related posts.*
However, in this case, a casual exchange on twitter prompts this one.
At the time, I just forwarded a link to an [...]
There is something good to be said for focus. Technically The Food Geek dot com has a focus, and that is food, but food is a huge topic. Huuuuuge. There are those that are even more focused, and the one I ran across today is LimoncelloQuest.
Since returning from Italy, I have been planning on making [...]
There’s this site called instructables. Its purpose in life is to have step-by-step instructions of doing just about everything, all generated by users, with the ability to comment and so on.
A lot of these projects are electronics, or carpentry, or steampunk, or what-have-you. Cool stuff, but not useful for thefoodgeek.com. However, instructables recently held the [...]
I mean, come on! Darth Vader! Toast!
Via Make Magazine.
If you check out the Make post, you’ll see a whole bunch of other laser-etched toast projects, many of them homebrew. The Star Wars toaster is about $55 from Starwars.com.
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