Entries tagged with 'weird'
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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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Get ready for tomorrow night's Food Party debut on IFC by watching the show's creator Thu Tran demonstrate how to make Green Screen cookies. All you need is Fantasy Potion! You know...Fantasy Potion, available at your local grocery store or bodega. "Just ask the man very nicely and he will give it to you," Tran says. Watch the video after the jump....
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In the battle between Cakedogg and Presentcat, everyone's a winner. Because you get lots of cake and presents! Puked forth from dogs and cats! Go to Paul Robertson's Livejournal for the full rainbow-spewing animated gif. (Warning: illustration of dogs and cats is SWF, but rest of artist's livejournal is NSWF.) I don't get it, but I like it anyway....
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I didn't know what Shin Bob was when I first came across it, but as a rotund blob with nubs-for-arms and abnormally huge eyes, it was love at first sight. And then Emily Koh told me that the Korean words "shin bob" translated to "old rice" (think of the crusty bits at the bottom of a rice cooker) and it all made sense—the brown gradient, the rice paddle sticking out of its head, the accompanying untainted rice grain buddy. Never before would I have thought that a ball of old, crusty rice could be so cute (although I'll note that burnt bread is also quite adorable); it's a fine example of Unexpected Anthropomorphic Food. Alas, I think I'm living...
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Have you ever wanted some chocolate, but not wanted to deal with that whole chewing thing? Thankfully, someone designed a product for you. Called Le Whif, it is a miniature inhaler that sprays calorie-free chocolate into your mouth. Developed by David Edwards of Harvard, it supposedly fits into the progression of how we eat: Over the centuries we've been eating smaller and smaller quantities at shorter and shorter intervals. It seemed to us that eating was tending toward breathing, so, with a mix of culinary art and aerosol science, we've helped move eating habits to their logical conclusion. We call it whiffing. Le Whif is available in four flavors: mint chocolate, raspberry chocolate, mango chocolate, and plain chocolate. What...
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A man in India eats rocks and bricks. Yeah, not so food-related, but pretty impressive—if it's real. (I have my doubts.)...
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A few weeks ago, we brought you Meat Cards—business cards made of beef jerky, with your information laser-etched in. But Joe Yonan at the Washington Post went ahead and got a batch. The result? Each card is "surprisingly delicate," he writes, and "a little hard to make out in parts." But it looks pretty great in his bacon-patterned wallet....
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Photograph by Tracy O'Connor Ever see a can give birth to a chicken before? Head to I Hate My Message Board for all the gooey photos. Blogger Tracy O'Connor documents the uncanning of a Sweet Sue Canned Whole Chicken and tastes test it so you don't have to. Ingredient-wise it's inoffensive—there's just chicken, water, and salt. Unsurprisingly, it doesn't taste very good ("it all tasted like all the flavor had been cooked out"), despite how delicious the can says it should taste. Full-on chicken goo action, after the jump....
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What's that above? The "face" of a Jenny Haniver, the dried body of a ray or skate that has been modified to look like a grotesque little creature. I've stashed a full photo of two of them after the jump. It's slightly demonic/Texas Chainsaw-looking and possibly horrifying. Click through at your own risk....
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These photos are not from a Costco freezer or secret Lean Cuisine headquarters. They are from someone's basement—the parents of a blogger at Epic Proportions. Apparently they stock up like it's Y2K or something when the frozen dinners are on sale. Impressive. Related: The perks of frozen entrees... [Talk]...
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