Pomegranates are not the prettiest of fruit*. Oh, sure, their seeds (er, arils) are lovely on their own, but as an assembled fruit, they’re not all that great. Plus, taking them apart is a pain. The arils will explode upon contact, and squirt their red juices all over whatever white clothing you might happen to [...]
Make Magazine’s blog tells us all about Raphael and Max who have set up a Jacob’s Ladder*, staple of Mad Scientists everywhere, and they discover which foods cook… well, not better, but at least more easily with some high-voltage electricity.
I say not better because there’s a comment about it smelling like burnt hair, and [...]
So, seriously, what’s the point of dicing garlic? Wouldn’t it be easier just to use the microplane grater, or, better yet, crush it? Food Blog Skillet Doux asks just those questions (or near enough) and throws in a nice, hypothesis-testing experiment to discover the answer. He tries three methods of garlic preparation, and cooks each [...]
Eggs are a wonder of the world, capable of turning potential birds into real birds, supporting a soufflé, making nog and other custards, and bringing disparate ingredients together in a bit of harmony that would make the United Nations proud. There are nearly 3 sesquitillion techniques for working eggs properly into food, some of more [...]
Here’s a quick tutorial from Cutlery.com on basic knife techniques. Proper knife technique is not only important to help you prepare food better and sometimes faster, but it’s vital for proper safety.
There are challenges with any style of cooking. The challenges of regular cooking, the pots-and-pans, pour-and-stir style of cooking, is mostly one of “volume of material.” There are so many methods, so many different ingredients, and such obscure terminology, that it’s difficult to get going. Trickier is leaning how to combine ingredients in a way [...]
Now that you know where coffee comes from, it’s time to focus on the more practical aspect of coffee: the making. There are a lot of ways to brew coffee, from the pedestrian to the futuristic to the complicated to the, well, weird.
All coffee making methods share the desire to combine grounds with hot water [...]
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