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 [...]
I have not been able to turn on the Web for the past week without seeing something about the new The Big Easy Oil-less Turkey Fryer from Char-Broil. What I hear is “it won’t catch your house on fire like a turkey fryer will” and “infrared heat.”
I will start by saying that in no way [...]
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.
There are two new items for the World’s Most Popular Stand Mixer In The World*. I’m writing of the KitchenAid Stand Mixer, not some other mixer.
The first is the BeaterBlade. Available from Amazon, this handly little device is just like the paddle attachment on your stand mixer, except that it has some silicone bits around [...]
L’Equip R.P.M. Blender with Tachometer: “While it doesn’t justify the purchase of a new model just to get it, this ‘R.P.M. Blender’ from L’Equip has a tachometer on the side. It does seem sort of obvious now that someone’s made one, doesn’t it? I’d like to see this added to all blenders as standard issue.
The [...]
Such a bad idea, but how can one resist the allure of the kitchen-based power tools? It’s only an exhibition piece, and not something we could buy, but still.
If anyone decides they want to build one of these, you should feel proud of your upcoming sense of achievement. However, try to build in the [...]
For those of us who watched the fourth episode of Alton Brown’s Feasting on Asphalt, there were plenty of items of note. There was the unfortunate accident, the nice police officer who managed to get his own TV show, and the revelation that Alton Brown pretty much makes coffee the same way I do (and, [...]
Instructables has a great entry on a homemade 3D Chocolate Printer, made from LEGOs (with some custom work). Its very rough at the moment, and the maximum geometry is limited by the fact that there isn’t yet a way to work in support structures, but it’s a great start. There are some movies on the [...]
There are times when you might not want to pick things up with your hands. In the kitchen, you’ll use your hands for many many tasks, but sometimes they’re not appropriate. Aside from items which are too liquid, the most obvious class of things to avoid using your hands on are things which are burning [...]
At my day job, we have a Bodum Santos electric vacuum coffee maker. It’s a lovely device, and given the choice between an automatic drip pot and this, I would always choose this. It’s more automatic than a press, but more work than an automatic drip. The only thing that would stop me from recommending [...]
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