https://youtu.be/nORRgU8sGdE Teapots pour. Laptops slide. Apples roll. Ping pong balls hover. Mushrooms and carrots rotate into place. An amazing amount of intricate food-themed contraptions come together to Pass the Salt in this collaboration between quirky Rube Goldberg machine creator Joseph’s Machines and chain reaction YouTuber Sprice Machines. How did the screen-linked machine come together? A lot of fails and adjustments. Joseph…… Continue reading How to Pass the Salt While Social Distancing
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LEGOs Waffle and Coffee Stop-Motion Video
https://youtu.be/5dbljVr7CrQ Created with 3,200 photos, YouTuber Bebop cooks up some LEGO waffles and coffee in this stop-motion cooking short film. Have you ever put melted cheese on your waffles? Or is that butter? Also: Don’t eat your LEGO.
OSU Master Gardener Program’s Vegetable Gardening Course is FREE
A lot of folks are suddenly interested in learning how to grow their own food. So, through the end of April, Oregon State’s Master Gardener Program is making OSU’s online Vegetable Gardening course FREE.Sign up HERE
Kitchen Gadgets Improved by Design Experience Expert – Epicurious & Dan Formosa
Just how effective is the Slap Chop? Can it be improved? Design and usability expert Dan Formosa takes a look at some common kitchen gadgets, rates them, and attempts to improve their designs. I really enjoyed watching this with an eye to the accessibility of everyday products. Many of the “unitaskers” Alton Brown is against…… Continue reading Kitchen Gadgets Improved by Design Experience Expert – Epicurious & Dan Formosa
Debunking 5 Minute Crafts – Ann Reardon
Ann Reardon exposes the dangerous fake-news of food and craft videos.
Fancy Sprinkles, Ridiculous and Amazing
A Sampling of SprinklesI ScreamBig Vegan BirthdayAnimal CrackersBanana SplitBirthday BalloonLittle PrinceHop ScotchComic BookSplendidString BikiniFirecrackerGrinchmasPony Party Purple
Hip-Hop Produces Funky Cheese/Music Affects Aging Cheese Flavor – Smithsonian
From the Smithsonian Magazine:The creation of good cheese involves a complex dance between milk and bacteria. In a quite literal sense, playing the right tune while this dance unfolds changes the final product’s taste, a new study shows. Denis Balibouse and Cecile Mantovani at Reuters report that hip-hop, for example, gave the cheese an especially funky flavor,…… Continue reading Hip-Hop Produces Funky Cheese/Music Affects Aging Cheese Flavor – Smithsonian
Milk Bar’s Cake Truffles – Washington Post
How does the team at the award-winning bakery Milk Bar make their delicious cake truffles? Milk Bar founder Christina Tosi demonstrates how you can make them at home with her strawberry-lemon cake truffles recipe. And she makes it look easy: Cake + binder + scooping + coating + crumbs.Tosi says kids especially enjoy making these, although it can be a…… Continue reading Milk Bar’s Cake Truffles – Washington Post
How Do They Do It? Making Rock Candy – Discovery UK
How are hard candies created with messages written within their cores? See how this sugary treat, called ‘rock candy’ in the UK, is poured, pulled, assembled, rolled, stretched, hardened, and cut into pieces in this Discovery UK visit to Spun Candy in London. It’s a clip from the series How Do They Do It?The magic of this ‘conversation…… Continue reading How Do They Do It? Making Rock Candy – Discovery UK
How is Victorian Nectar Drop Candy Made?
…and why are lemon drops, cough drops, and fruit drops all called drops?In this video by Tallahassee, Florida’s Lofty Pursuits artisanal candy makers, we get an up close look at how their restored candy equipment, circa 1848, made (and makes) Victorian era nectar candy drops. Watch the hot sugar roll through the pairs of brass drop rollers into sheets of molded…… Continue reading How is Victorian Nectar Drop Candy Made?
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