Entries tagged with 'technology'
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"What about your bubbe's borscht recipe? Didn't she probably squeeze it onto an index card in roughly 140 characters?" Twitter user @cookbook condenses recipes to 140 characters or fewer. Recipe from a 1950s Gourmet cookbook, for sale on etsy.com, is definitely more than 140 characters. Can a recipe be only 140 characters long? Sure, you could cram in short-hand terms for liter (l) and olive oil (olvoil), but is it truly a recipe? Many people, including the entire cookbook industry, would argue no. Using Twitter as a platform to share shrunken recipes—which @cookbook has proven can attract over 15,000 followers—strips the recipe of its headnote, its hand-holding instructions, and its soul, some would argue. It's like showing the credits to...
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In England, Heinz has unveiled the world's smallest microwave—and it plugs into a USB port so you can nuke some grub at the desk or on the go. Called the Beanzawave, it's obviously a ploy to increase brand awareness for Heinz baked beans, but you could also warm some coffee, tea, or maybe a meatball or two. Don't get your wallet out yet, though. The 7.4-by-6.2-by-5.9-inch device is still in prototype stage, and who knows if it'll ever see the inside of stores. Apart from its size, the key breakthrough is the use of a combination of mobile phone radio frequencies to create the heat to cook both on the outside and within in under a minute...."It is possible...
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Photograph by Windell H. Oskay of evilmadscientist.com Evil Mad Scientist just relaunched their CandyFab project with a new machine: the CandyFab 6000. What can the CandyFab 6000 do for you? It can "print" 3-D objects out of sugar, like that drilled sphere you've always wanted! And while it can technically melt other substances that have a low melting point and come in granular form, sugar is preferable since it smells good, isn't toxic, and doesn't cost much. Evil Mad Scientist plans to sell CandyFab kits and share building plans later this year. To learn more about how this machine works, read about the making of the previous incarnation, the CandyFab 4000. Related Hot Dog Bun Grilling Jig Fractal Snowflake...
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One of the more interesting and useful trends sparked by Twitter is
the way street-food vendors have flocked to it. What better way for a roving kitchen to relay info to customers? We've compiled a list of street vendors on Twitter, divided by region.
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Word of Mouth The British supermarket chain Tesco started selling a special breed of non-soggy tomato on Tuesday—the result of a breeding program that began in 1986. The new tomato is supposedly just as juicy as a regular supermarket tomato but has an internal structure that holds onto the juices rather than letting them spill out on slicing. Susan Smillie of the Guardian's Word of Mouth blog grabs one and does a taste test with her colleagues: Overall, the Tesco tomato sandwich scored higher than the original canteen sandwich. While Tony, the chef, prepped up our sandwich, I noticed that Abdul, one of the guys who works alongside him, was reminiscing about eating tomatoes on a mountain in North...
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The South By Southwest Interactive panel "The Secrets of Successful Food Blogging" wrapped up less than an hour ago. We hear from panelist Zach Brooks that it wasn't recorded, and until someone blogs it, we'll have to rely on the pointillist picture emerging from Twitteronia. Searching the hashtag #foodsxsw gives you the tweets of folks in attendance (those who bothered to hashtag their tweets, anyway). We've excerpted the most interesting ones. Panelists were Zach Brooks (Midtown Lunch), Cathy Erway (Not Eating Out in New York), Kalyn Denny (Kalyn's Kitchen), and Addie Broyles (Relish Austin)—moderated by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Cupcakes Take the Cake). Tweets below occur roughly in order. On Post Frequency and Traffic kittygutz: Don't get wrapped up in...
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Maybe I'm not caught up on my cookie-cutter technology. I just hadn't seen a three-part, 3-D cookie cutter before. Japan = SO TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED. $6.20, from Jbox.com...
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Photograph by Eric Shin from Flickr From a Newsweek story on L.A.'s Kogi BBQ Taco Truck: In many ways, Kogi's rapid rise reflects the same cultural moment that produced Barack Obama; youthful, urban, multiethnic, wired and communal, both brands resonate with a grassroots generation that distrusts top-down messaging and prefers to learn from peers, often online. The question now is whether L.A.'s Twitter-fueled Korean taco truck is merely a fad (more like, say, Howard Dean)—or, as the Kogi copycats are hoping, a model for the future of fast food. Related A Typical Day on the Kogi BBQ Taco Truck Meet & Eat: Kogi Korean BBQ Taco Truck...
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Got an antediluvian VHS player lying around? That you haven't tossed out in the last decade? Pull out the slices of room-temp bread for this one. The passionate how-to site Instructables has an eight-step guide on constructing a VHS toaster. But first watch the contraption in action, which involves toast flying in slow-mo. The video, after the jump....
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Do you ever have a hankering for a nice, moist, vanilla cupcake with blue frosting and chocolate hearts on it? Or maybe a green tea flavored one with butter cream and sprinkles? Well, too bad you're stuck at work or tied down by one of those crazy cupcakeless diet fads. But wait, yet another iPhone app comes to the rescue. iCupcake is a new, 99¢ time-waster. It's pretty useless, sure, but you might be able to brighten someone's day by sending your sweet creation to them. If only it transported the real thing, though. [via Cupcakes Take the Cake]...
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