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Would You Eat Lab Engineered Meat?
In this week's New Yorker there's a piece called "Test-Tube Burgers" on the controversial work being done to engineer meat in a lab. The stem-cell biologists, tissue engineers, animal rights activists, and environmentalists involved all share one goal: to grow muscle without the use of animals, and produce it in quantities that are large enough to sell in grocery stores. Would eating it give you the heebie-jeebies? Or does thinking about the factory farm slaughterhouses freak you out more?The Brix Scale for Measuring Fruit Ripeness
Part of the fruit-buying experience is squeezing and poking around the heaping pile to find the just-right piece. But with the Brix scale, you can actually know the ripeness of fruit ahead of time. As Flavor Alchemy points out, the ratio of sugar to liquid in the fruit increases as it ripens, so if the Brix number is higher, the fruit is sweeter. Have you noticed Brix numbers in your supermarket's produce section?Vote For Your Favorite 2010 Pi Day Bake-Off Pie
Do you like staring at photos of pie? And thinking about math equations? OK, even if you said no to the second one, we need you. It's time to vote for the best entry in our 2010 Pi Day Pie Bake-Off we co-sponsored with the good, equally pie-obsessed folks of ScienceBlogs. We've narrowed it down to our ten favorites. Voting ends at midnight EST on Thursday, March 18, and winners will be announced on Friday. Let the voting begin! »Your Supermarket's Fluorescent Lights Boost Nutrients in Spinach
The Mail cites an American Chemical Society study that reveals the surprising find: "Spinach stored [in fluorescent] light for three days had much higher levels of vitamins C, K, and E, plus folate, a B vitamin. After nine days, levels of folate increased between 84 and 100 percent and the level of Vitamin K also rose by up to 100 percent." [via Cold Mud]The Car-puccino, the Car that Runs on Coffee
Nicknamed the "Car-puccino," this converted 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco, chosen for its resemblance to the DeLorean time-traveling car from Back To The Future runs completely on roasted coffee granules. A team from the BBC science show Bang Goes The Theory built the coffeemobile and calculated that it can run three miles per kilo of ground coffee, or about 56 espressos per mile.Serious Cheese: Why Goat Cheese Pizza Lacks Stretch
The step in cheese-making that turns boring milk into fantastic cheese is curdling, the process which gave Little Miss Muffett her favorite pastime. As I believe I've mentioned before, not counting the unusual properties of some thistles, there are essentially two ways to set curd: rennet, and acid. And right there is the critical choice for whether your cheese is going to melt or not.Come on in 'The Kitchn'
Each week we round up our favorite posts and recipes from our friends at The Kitchn. This week, the Kitchn combines baking and nerdism to make cookies in the shapes of atoms, lab mice, petri dishes, and the always delicious gel electrophoresis. Also on the Kitchn: Ingredient Spotlight: Chioggia Beet: Also known as the candy cane beet, this pretty striped vegetable can be prepared just like any other beet. Ultimate Cheater Pulled Pork from The Splendid Table: First published a few years ago, this recipe is a snap—a true "dump and cook" slow-cooker recipe. How To Make Sauerkraut: Basically you just slice up some cabbage, salt it, pack it in a jar, and leave it out for a while. How...Carl Sagan's Apple Pie Recipe
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." —Carl Sagan [via Reddit, where "horsey" says, "I think you're going to have to make the universe first, then preheat the oven."]...Video: How a Slush Machine Works
File this under "Things I Never Wondered About Until I Randomly Came Across This Related Video on YouTube." Learn how a slush machine retains that even icy-bits-in-liquid composition at -3°C with the right percentage of sugar and horizontal and vertical mixers after the jump....Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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8 Delicious Chocolate Cakes and Pies for Valentine's Day
Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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