Cooking

These Cabinets Hide an Incredible Stealth Kitchen

When you live in a closet-sized city apartment, it’s no fun to cook in a teeny, tiny cramped kitchen. But a kitchen completely hidden behind lovely wood cabinets when not in use? That’s kind of ingenious. Stealth Kitchen is the latest creation of Resource Furniture, the same folks behind many of the designs in the…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Feb 25

The Untold History of the Easy-Bake Oven

I have a confession: My brother and I destroyed my Easy-Bake Oven. I had the 1981 Mini-Wave model, the boxy, yellow microwave style, which was, in my 7-year-old mind, the only kind of Easy-Bake there was. One day, my 4-year-old brother had a brilliant idea—to “cook” a green plastic steak from our 1972 Mattel Tuff…

Tech News Lisa Hix - Collectors Weekly Feb 13

How a Pressure Cooker Can Turn Up the Heat on Your Valentine’s Dinner

Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to make a restaurant-caliber meal at home—especially if you just realized it’s on Friday and there are no good dinner reservations left. Modernist cooking enlists techniques that require less active time cooking, while still producing rich flavors—just the sort of thing needed to create a memorable dinner that you…

Tech News Modernist Cuisine Feb 12

You can bake cookies from the cookie dough of cookie dough ice cream

Well, well, well. Isn’t this good to know? Turns out, you can strain all the ice cream out of cookie dough ice cream and use its dough to bake cookies. Surprise! It’s actually cookie dough! It’s not just factory made cookie flavoring made to make you crave ice cream more (even if it still is…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 7

How To Deep Fry Without A Deep Fryer (And Make 5 Super Bowl Treats)

For a lot of us, just thinking about the Super Bowl elicits a craving for deep-fried goodness. If you’re without a dedicated fryer, don’t fear. Modernist Cuisine at Home will show you how to achieve the same effect with a handful of conventional kitchen tools you just might have lying around. Modernist Cuisine at Home,…

Tech News Modernist Cuisine Feb 1

A Spice Rack Full of Cylindrical Shakers That Let You Grab a Pinch

Cooking is rarely about using perfectly precise portions—so Umbra designed this clever spice rack with a set of six cylindrical containers, each with its own adjustable ring that lets you shake out as much seasoning as you need. Or, you can simply remove the cap to grab a tried-and-true pinch of whatever spice the recipe…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 27

The Science of Why Your Pasta Boils Over

We’ve all done it: you put the pasta on to boil, turn your back for a few minutes to wipe off the counter or read the newest Today I Found Out article, and suddenly you hear that foreboding hissing sound of water boiling over. (Perhaps if you simply subscribed to our Daily Knowledge podcast and…

Physics & Chemistry Emily Upton - TodayIFoundOut.com Jan 10

The Physics Behind Why Sausages Split Lengthwise

I like sausages. I like grilled sausages. I like fried sausages. I like beef, pork and chicken sausages. I even like vegetarian sausages. Sometimes when you cook sausages, they burst. This occasionally happens if you try and cook them too fast. It can also happen if the brand of sausage you are cooking is overly…

Physics & Chemistry Nick Berry - Data Genetics Jan 9

Science Finds the Universe’s Best French Fries Would Come From Jupiter

Just because we can’t fry food in the vacuum of space doesn’t mean that the entire universe has to be devoid of its greasy wonder. In fact, turns out us Earthlings live in an environment damned to produce subpar french fries without even realizing it. According to a new study, if you’re really jonesing for…

Space & Spaceflight Ashley Feinberg Jan 8

A Beginner’s Guide to Buying Custom Kitchen Knives

When selecting a set of knives for your kitchen, you can certainly go to any retail store and purchase an inexpensive set of knives made with plastic handles and low-grade steel. But, when you want something of higher quality, specialized design or materials, or you just want something a bit more personalized, custom is the…

Tech News Dan Bergevin Dec 17

How Many D Batteries Does It Take to Cook a Turkey?

Sometimes, when the holidays roll around, things go wrong and you need to get creative. How creative? Well, that’s up to your family and their own zany ways. Wired’s Rhett Allain imagined the zaniest of scenarios for Thanksgiving Day. What if you had no oven—but an unlimited number of D batteries? How many would it…

Physics & Chemistry Adam Clark Estes Nov 28

The Best Turkey Frying Disasters on the Internet

It’s Thanksgiving — which means it’s time to be thankful for morons who attempt to fry their own turkeys. Here it is: The very best of the biggest Turkey Fryer Fails we found on the internet. Be safe! The Homemade Turkey Fryer: “Homemade turkey fryer,” or pot with oil over an open flame? Either way,…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 27

Ask a Chef All of Your Pre-Thanksgiving Food Questions!

Merrill Stubbs is a chef and food writer, and she’s here today to answer all of our Thanksgiving questions about food, recipes, and the all the best things to fill your table up with this year. Merrill is the co-founder of Food52, a cooking and cooks’ website. She graduated from both Le Cordon Bleu and…

io9 Ria Misra Nov 27

A Handheld Broiler Lets You Guarantee a Perfect Sear

It’s hard to keep tabs on the sear on a steak when it’s buried in your oven under the broiler. So Dave Arnold, a man known for his innovations in the field of culinary technology, has created a handheld broiler called the Searzall that lets chefs guarantee an absolutely perfect sear on a piece of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Nov 22

You can use your cheapo coffee machine to cook after the apocalypse

Here’s a clever piece of post-apocalyptic kit. You know that clunky drip-coffee maker you scored for like five bucks at your neighbor’s yard sale? Turns out it’s actually a pretty serious all-in-one culinary wonder machine – provided you know how to use it. NPR’s Michaeleen Doucleff lists the three basic cooking techniques afforded by your…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Nov 18

A Rechargeable Sous Chef Whose Only Job Is To Stir

When you’re racing to get dinner on the table, the last thing you need is to get stuck at the stove stirring the gravy. And while few of us can afford our own dedicated sous chef, the $80 Stirio makes for a far more affordable kitchen assistant. With adjustable arms that clamp on to the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Nov 14

The World’s Most Beautiful Cookbook Is Now a Beautiful App

Nathan Myhrvold’s Modernist Cuisine keeps getting more accessible to home chefs. First it was a six-volume, 50-pound, $500 culinary encyclopedia. Then came the two-volume, $115 Modernist Cuisine at Home. Now it’s an app—a gorgeously designed and far more practical way to learn molecular gastronomy techniques. https://gizmodo.com/the-long-wait-for-the-iliad-of-modern-cooking-modernis-5647451 According to Co.Design, Myhrvold was against producing any kind…

Tech News Alissa Walker Nov 13

This Oil and Vinegar Dispenser Stores One Inside of the Other

Why waste counter space with separate bottles of both olive oil and balsamic vinegar when the talented folks at XD Design have come up with a better all-in-one solution? Their Orbit features a pair of mouth blown glass globes sitting inside each other, keeping the two liquids separate—while also playing up the fact that oil…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Nov 12

Five Pumpkin Carving Tools Everybody Should Own

You want a jack-o-lantern that looks like it was carved by a 6-year-old, by all means stick with the spoon and kitchen knife combo that you’ve been using since you were a kid. But if you want a jack-o-lantern that will terrify the neighbors until mid-November, you’re going to need a better tool set. Scrapers…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Oct 28

Clever Numbered Spoons Guarantee You’ll Never Forget a Measurement

When you’re working your way through all the ingredients in a complex recipe, you can easily lose track of how much of this or that you’ve measured. Or at least Japanese designer Atsuhiro Hayashi does, which inspired him to create a set of measuring spoons with numbers in relief that leave no question as to…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 15

These Cabinets Hide an Incredible Stealth Kitchen

The Untold History of the Easy-Bake Oven

How a Pressure Cooker Can Turn Up the Heat on Your Valentine’s Dinner

You can bake cookies from the cookie dough of cookie dough ice cream

How To Deep Fry Without A Deep Fryer (And Make 5 Super Bowl Treats)

A Spice Rack Full of Cylindrical Shakers That Let You Grab a Pinch

The Science of Why Your Pasta Boils Over

The Physics Behind Why Sausages Split Lengthwise

Science Finds the Universe’s Best French Fries Would Come From Jupiter

A Beginner’s Guide to Buying Custom Kitchen Knives

How Many D Batteries Does It Take to Cook a Turkey?

The Best Turkey Frying Disasters on the Internet

Ask a Chef All of Your Pre-Thanksgiving Food Questions!

A Handheld Broiler Lets You Guarantee a Perfect Sear

You can use your cheapo coffee machine to cook after the apocalypse

A Rechargeable Sous Chef Whose Only Job Is To Stir

The World’s Most Beautiful Cookbook Is Now a Beautiful App

This Oil and Vinegar Dispenser Stores One Inside of the Other

Five Pumpkin Carving Tools Everybody Should Own

Clever Numbered Spoons Guarantee You’ll Never Forget a Measurement

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