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more about #cooking more comments → egrondorf: If you still want to sharpen your own knives, despite what Alton has to say on the subject, take a look at the Spyderco Sharpmaker. But please, do sta... more » ☆Giroro G66☆: The edges of brownies are the worst part. Why ruin a perfectly good pan of brownies? more » Xagest: Everyone needs a stick blender. You'll make the most awesome single-serving smoothie/milkshake ever, with like zero cleanup. more » fastm3driver: sous vide cooking is dangerous so don't even attempt it. more » Curves: Its not on the list, but one of my most valued pieces of kitchen equipment is my very well used crock pot. For a working person, its a life saver. ... more » abates25: Wait, wait, wait....first thing any aspiring chef should have is the Volcano vaporizer. For the good, um, vapors. more » mnerd: I am not sure Alton Brown is the end all be all for nerd food prep. For my money, I would take the combine nerdiness of the America's Test Kitchen fol... more » mnerd: I forget the name, but if you are in LA, the knife shop in the Brabury Building downtown is basically the go to place for professional knife sharpenin... more » Log1c: I didn't realize an induction cooktop could be that cheap... Its also worth pointing out that stainless steel and copper are also not magnetic. You'l... more » Phil Kmetz: Immersion blenders are some of the most useful tools in a kitchen. Props to gizmodo for referencing Alinea. more » Homerjay is utterly alone.: Can somebody tell me why I'd want a single induction burner like this when I have a very nice non-induction cooktop already? I'm not being snarky, I r... more » drewls: Alton Brown is full of crap with his irrational knife sharpener hatred. America's Test Kitchen is fine with them and I'm quite happy with my Chef's C... more » Covertghost: I need an immersion blender badly. Thanks for reminding me, off to amazon! more » Nathan Obbards: I would kill for an induction cooktop and a nice set of pans. My current pans are hand me down pain in the neck ridged Calphalons.Good to know you lea... more » gr8wayn: nobody likes the edge brownies! everyone knows that the center brownies are the best. I'm going to invent and "All Centers Brownie Pan!" I know wha... more » -
#iphoneapps
Michael Ruhlman's Ratio iPhone App May Actually Get You Into the Kitchen
"When you know a ratio, you don't know a recipe, you know 1,000." Ruhlman's upcoming Ratio iPhone app looks like an excellent way to spread his theory of ratio-based cookery. Scared of sauce-making or baking? This is for you. More » -
#giftguide
Kitchen Gifts for Amateur Chefs Who Yearn To Be Iron
Geeks love cooking and there's no mystery why: it's science you can eat! We spent a week salivating over food gadgets, gathering tips and wisdom along the way. From that experience comes our list of best (and worst) gift ideas: More » -
#art
Judge How Cooked Your Steak Is Based on Video Transmission
Noah Feehan looked at his raw steak one day and thought "What if I plug some composite video into that hunk o' meat?" So he did just that. Turns out that it lets him judge when the steak's perfectly cooked. More » -
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Stuff We Didn't Post Today (and Why)
Esquire Sells the Space Beneath Downey's Iron Nuts...No Joy for TomTom's $120 iPhone Car Dock...Amtrak Gets "Free" Wi-Fi, But You Still Have to Pay for the Subsidy, Er Ticket...Voulez Vouz QOOQez Avec Moi? More » -
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10 Gadgets That Harness Fire In Your Home
Few things are more relaxing than sitting in front of a fire on a cold fall day. These 10 products will help you harness the awesome power of fire in your home. More » -
#appliances
Kenwood Cooking Chef Makes Risottos and Meringues Automagically
I love to cook. I enjoy going to the market, and cooking all kinds of meat, seafood, and rice for lunch and dinner parties with my dearester friends at home. That's why I'd never get the Kenwood Cooking Chef. More » -
#food
The Secret Ingredient Is
The confections look innocent enough—slightly geometric renditions of Vanilla Refrigerator Cookies from The Joy of Cooking. But hold these cookie markers under a webcam with some accompanying software, and you get this: More »LoveAugmented Reality -
#food
Mini-Woks Bastardize Culture with Unrelenting, Unapologetic Cuteness
Sliders have been popular for a while, and people have been doing the fondue forever. What's the next big thing? Mini-woks. You heard it here first, foodie hipsters. More » -
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#cooking
Bellings Media Chef Addresses Unmet, Imaginary Demand for More Digital Recipe Displays
The Bellings Media Chef digitally displays recipe videos while you cook. Now, I'm not saying you could do this with your laptop and save money, but I am totally telling you could do this with your laptop and save money. More » -
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Siemens discControl Stove Top System Is Ingeniously Childproof
Siemens discControl knobs are perfect for the iPod generation in that they're completely touch based sliders, as the product's name suggests. But beyond that they hide a very cool, very safe little feature for households with small children. More » -
#tastetest
The Kitchen Scale, Unsung Hero of Great Cooking
Food writer and culinary expert Michael Ruhlman didn't want us to get through a week of celebrating kitchen gadgetry without singing praise of the digital scale. Damn the cups and tablespoons, cooking by weight is the only path to awesomeness. More » -
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Cooking with Magnets: An Intro to Induction
Induction stoves may be making their way into restaurant kitchens, but for home cooks they're still a mystery. Fortunately, Wired product editor (and food geek) Mark McClusky volunteered to enlighten us: More » -
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Mad Scientist Chef Grant Achatz Anti-Griddlin' at Alinea
You may not be able to spend hundreds on a meal at foodie mecca Alinea. But you can watch Grant Achatz pulverize, vaporize and atomize other people's plates—streamed live last night... Update: Recorded video embedded below More » -
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Why Video Games Might Be The Best Way To Learn How To Cook
My father would die of starvation if it wasn't for my mother. I mean, even if you're too lazy to cook, you should still know how—it's about self-reliance. Fortunately, video games make it easy to learn. More » -
#tastetest
Alinea's Chef Grant Achatz Preps Dinner LIVE on Giz: Tonight 9:45PM ET/6:45PM PT
Want to see the inside of a four-star kitchen at primetime? Come back tonight to watch Alinea's Chef Grant Achatz prepping dinner, live on camera 9:45P ET/6:45PM PT. Hit the Taste Test link for the video. [Taste Test: Alinea Files] -
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What Is This?
The temperature readout is a hint, but here's another: This science-y box will cook meat fully (and deliciously), but it probably won't burn you.
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#tastetest
All-Edges Brownie Pan Makes My Inner Child Want to Die
Attention, gross chewy-edge brownie people: You're wrong. You always have been, and you always will be. But that hasn't stopped you from getting your very own brownie pan, to help you indulge your vice in the purest way possible. More » -
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Fancy Fast Food Is Pure Deep Fried, Greasy, Glazed Culinary Genius
Brilliant. That's the only way to describe the epicurial madness that takes place at Fancy Fast Food, which completely deconstructs real, everyday fast food and rebuilds it into something completely different. And delicious. You'll never guess what this was. More » -
#cooking
Kitchen Timer Follows Recipes To a Tee
I have never understood how people can claim that they can't cook. I mean, how hard is it to follow a recipe? Still, there are ways to make things even easier—like this unique kitchen timer concept. More »
