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In Videos: Dog Eats Bean Burrito in 1 Second
Not super food-related, but pretty amazing. The title says it all. The fast action, after the jump....Lebanon Farmer Grows 24.9-Pound Potato
uk.news.yahoo.com "[Khalil] Semhat, 56, said he had not done anything special to cultivate such a super-sized spud. 'I didn't use any chemicals at all,' he insisted, adding that he had to ask a friend to help him haul the huge tuber out of the ground." [Yahoo! News UK]...Rocks for Dinner
A lot of things rock, but eating rocks doesn't always top that list. This spread was featured at the annual Eureka Gem Show at the Redwood Acres fairground in California. From the pork chops to the peas to the buttered baked potato, every part of this meal was made from rocks, gems, and minerals....Apple Apple Pie, Now With More Laser
What's geeky? Making an apple pie with an Apple logo. What's geekier? Cutting the latticed logo with a 45-watt carbon-dioxide laser. Good job, Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories! [via Neatorama] Related Hot Dog Bun Grilling Jig Photo of the Day: Death Star Melon How to Make Edible Googly Eyes for Cupcakes, Cookies, Etc....In Videos: Extreme French-Fry-Making with Pneumatic Spud Bazooka
Make magazine presents a reader-submitted video from Ted Goessling and Zachary Gens, who have created the Uber Tuber, a compressed-air-powered potato bazooka that they use to propel spuds at a grid of wires that slices them into fries. Behind the grid is a backstop that catches the potatoes and funnels them into a waiting fryer below. It's more Rube Goldbergian than it is practical, but it's fun stuff nonetheless....Robot Flips Pancakes
mailonsunday.co.uk Yes, I would like some pancakes, Mr. Robot. The Japanese have done it again with the Motoman robot, a pancake-flipping wonder of circuits and electricity. This awesome machine recently debuted at a three-day exhibition of robots in Osaka. If you could have a robot, what would you want it to cook for you? [via Coldmud]...Take Thanksgiving to the Next Level with a Modular Pecan Pie-Cosahedron
Community-driven tutorial website Instructables is holding a Take Thanksgiving to the Next Level contest featuring some interesting and unconventional Thanksgiving-themed foods. My favorite is the Modular Pecan Pie-Cosahedron made of 20 equilateral triangle-shaped pecan pies whose pans are held together by Amazing Magnets. The pie's creator turkey tek seems to have a penchant for giant pecan pies seeing as they're also behind this Giant Fractal Pecan Pie. [via Metafilter]...Mystery Meat Regularly Turning Up in Park; No One Knows Why
Photograph from MetroWest Daily News An unidentified meat lover in Framingham, Massachusetts, has been regularly leaving butcher-quality cuts of raw meat under a tree in the Town Centre Common since October. While dogs may be excited, people are just confused. After testing the meat, police and town officials have yet to determine its origins, but concluded that the meat doesn't seem to be tainted....Qua-duc-ant (Quail, Duck, Pheasant)
Turduckens and churkeys were so five minutes ago. A quaducant—following the Russian matryoshka nesting doll model of meat—would be quail's breast meat stuffed in duck's breast meat stuffed in a deboned pheasant. Buy a six-pounder on Cajun Grocer for $59.95. Meat multi-tasking like you've never seen it before. Related Are Turduckens Really Good Eating? [Talk] The Best Online Purveyors of Turduckens [Talk] Photo of the Day: Turducken—for Cats!...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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