Food

18th Century Pancakes Were Weird and Slightly Racist

The unfortunate truth of peering into our collective past is that eventually, something intolerant rears its head. For example, this pancake recipe found and cooked by 18th century cooking aficionado Jonathan Townsend doesn’t call the griddle treats pancakes at all—they’re “Indian slapjacks.” Their vaguely racist name is derived from the presence of one of the…

Sploid Avery Ellis Jul 18

Wonder Bread Plus Fire Makes a Miraculous Material

Wonder Bread is already semi-miraculous: It’s impossibly soft, sweet, and shelf-stable. But unlocking the true potential inside this fluffy stuff results in a substance nearly impervious to heat and electricity, not dissimilar from what used to cover the exterior of spacecraft. The process for turning Wonder Bread into carbon foam is essentially the same as…

Sploid Avery Ellis Jul 18

Sweep Everything Off Your Desk and Make Room for This Lego Pizza Hut Machine

The latest addition to Astonishing Studio’s line of “sets Lego should really be making” is a miniature Pizza Hut that dispenses personal pan pizzas after you feed it five dollars using a working currency slot. Imagine having pizza on-demand at your desk at all times, suddenly you’ll look forward to going to work. Because it’s…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 15

That Spicy Green Paste Next to Your Sushi Is Probably Not Wasabi

I’ll take an unagi roll, some tuna nigiri, and a side of lies, please. The dab of spicy green paste that accompanies your sushi may go by the name wasabi, but it’s actually something else entirely. What we call wasabi is almost always just a mix of horseradish, mustard, and a bit of green dye.…

Tech News Ria Misra Jul 15

This Post Has Nothing to Do With Pokémon Go, I Promise

It’s been a wild couple of days and we’re not going to talk about it at all here. This is a space for silent reflection—respite from one popular mobile game which will remain nameless, and the viral content encircling it like so much frothy scum on top of a simmering pot of chicken stock. Why…

Sploid Avery Ellis Jul 11

Nobody Wants to Eat Margarine Anymore

The great grudge match of bread spreads—butter vs. margarine—has a new champion. After several decades of inexplicable margarine-dominance, the trend has finally flipped in butter’s favor. The USDA took a look at the last 100 years of per-person American consumption of butter and margarine, including a graph comparing the rise and fall of both through…

Tech News Ria Misra Jul 8

Russian Special Forces Rations Include Brain Pâté, Among Other Things

Steve1989—who we previously watched eat a piece of actual civil war history—has a penchant for consuming rare and obscure military rations. Today he decided to scarf down several meals intended for the Spetsnaz (Russian special forces) for when those troops are traveling through mountains. It’s hearty. It’s weird. And there’s lots of it. Mountaineering is…

Sploid Avery Ellis Jul 7

The World’s Largest Vertical Farm Is Being Built in New Jersey

A huge vertical farm—where crops are planted, grown, and harvested all with neither sun nor soil—is being built in New Jersey. When it’s finished, it will be the largest one in the world. You can see one of the (smaller) existing factories from AeroFarm, on which the new one will be modeled, above in this…

Tech News Ria Misra Jul 5

Why World Hunger Is Going to Fall to Its Lowest Levels Ever This Decade

By 2026, there’s going to be a lot less hunger worldwide—and that’s something to celebrate. The reason is not that we’re growing more food, however. Food is just getting cheaper. The USDA just crunched the numbers on food costs in the world’s low- and middle-income countries, which also have the majority of the world’s hungry…

Tech News Ria Misra Jul 5

Watch This Wacky Automated Breakfast Machine Make Eggs, Toast, and Tea

The most important meal of the day is also the most annoying to make because you’re groggy and in a rush and haven’t had your cup of coffee yet. Genius men Peter Browne and Mervyn Huggett solved that eternal problem of making breakfast by building a machine to, well, make breakfast for them. Yep, like…

Sploid Casey Chan Jul 1

These Two Crops Use More of the World’s Water Than All Other Crops Combined

The world is drying up all around us, but which crops can we use to shift the blame away from our cars, pools, and cartons of almond milk? Cast your eyes hard on these two culprits, right in your very own kitchen cabinet. A new report from Oxfam identifies the crops that are using up…

Tech News Ria Misra Jun 29

Watch a Man Eat Food From the Civil War

Food is one of the pieces of common ground that people of all cultures share. Food is the one language we’re all forced to speak. And then there’s Steve1989 MREinfo. He just likes to eat really old military rations. It’s kind of his thing. Steve has eaten the old-as-hell food of armies from countless wars,…

Sploid Avery Ellis Jun 28

These Coffee-Infused Cocktails Are the Hair of the Dog You’ve Been Looking For

Standard remedies for a hangover are generally limited to greasy food, a strong cup of coffee, or more booze. Order those mozzarella sticks from bed, because we’ve got the other two covered. You can thank us later. Welcome to Gizmodo’s Happy Hour. Substance abuse for nerds. At first blush, coffee cocktails might seem like a…

Tech News Avery Ellis Jun 24

Hungry Scientists Will Soon Eat a Vegetable Grown in Martian Soil

For two years, researchers have been farming a series of crops in Martian and lunar soils. Now, a vegetable from the garden is finally about to get its first taste test. It will be a radish. The radish wasn’t actually grown on Mars or the moon. Researchers in the Netherlands Wageningen University have grown a…

Tech News Ria Misra Jun 24

Make These Salt-Cured Egg Yolks and Impress the Pants Off Your Foodie Friends

Salt preserves food, and we’ve using it in that capacity for thousands of years. But here’s a neat tip: meat and fish aren’t the only things you can keep from going rancid with salt curing. It also works with egg yolks. Your friends (the ones with reservations at Stone Barns anyway) are going to think…

Sploid Avery Ellis Jun 23

“Seven Nation Army” Is Vastly Improved by Mayo Farts

Jack White is divisive musician. Mayo is a divisive condiment. For some people it’s the only thing that ties a sandwich together, while for others it’s a boring, expensive quest to achieve some dated form of rock-and-roll authenticity that totally overshadows its musical talent. …Yup! What I’m trying to say is that they’re a tangy…

Sploid Avery Ellis Jun 23

Who’s Hungry For Some Roach Cake?

NOPE (But it’s just chocolate cake) NOPE (There’s even Boston cream filling!) NOPE (Just a tiny little bite? Pretty please? It took Katherine Dey a long time to make…) NOPE NOPE NOPE [Laughing Squid] SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

Sploid Avery Ellis Jun 23

Carving Milk on a Lathe Nearly Gives This Craftsman a Nervous Breakdown [Update]

No one thinks to use milk as a building material, but it’s possible. It’s also a huge pain in the ass. So much so that trying to carve the stuff nearly drove craftsman Peter Brown insane. Brown’s inspiration to build stuff out of milk came from a Household Hacker tutorial. In that video, it was…

Sploid Avery Ellis Jun 23

The Problem With the New Chocolate Substitute Is the Problem With All Food Substitutes

There’s a new form of chocolate out there that wants to replace candy as we know it. The reason it’s not going to is the same reason all substitute foods keep failing to deliver on their promises: Accurately replicating food is almost impossible. In a study published today in PNAS, physics researchers at Temple University…

Physics & Chemistry Ria Misra Jun 21

Fried Chicken Was Very, Very Different in the 1700s

Fried chicken is pure comfort food, and you can reasonably expect that it will be prepared using similar methods wherever you go. Unless of course you were planning on time traveling to the 18th century. The recipe in question comes from Nathan Bailey’s Dictionarium Domesticum, and is cooked here by Jonathan Townsend whose YouTube channel…

Sploid Avery Ellis Jun 21

18th Century Pancakes Were Weird and Slightly Racist

Wonder Bread Plus Fire Makes a Miraculous Material

Sweep Everything Off Your Desk and Make Room for This Lego Pizza Hut Machine

That Spicy Green Paste Next to Your Sushi Is Probably Not Wasabi

This Post Has Nothing to Do With Pokémon Go, I Promise

Nobody Wants to Eat Margarine Anymore

Russian Special Forces Rations Include Brain Pâté, Among Other Things

The World’s Largest Vertical Farm Is Being Built in New Jersey

Why World Hunger Is Going to Fall to Its Lowest Levels Ever This Decade

Watch This Wacky Automated Breakfast Machine Make Eggs, Toast, and Tea

These Two Crops Use More of the World’s Water Than All Other Crops Combined

Watch a Man Eat Food From the Civil War

These Coffee-Infused Cocktails Are the Hair of the Dog You’ve Been Looking For

Hungry Scientists Will Soon Eat a Vegetable Grown in Martian Soil

Make These Salt-Cured Egg Yolks and Impress the Pants Off Your Foodie Friends

“Seven Nation Army” Is Vastly Improved by Mayo Farts

Who’s Hungry For Some Roach Cake?

Carving Milk on a Lathe Nearly Gives This Craftsman a Nervous Breakdown [Update]

The Problem With the New Chocolate Substitute Is the Problem With All Food Substitutes

Fried Chicken Was Very, Very Different in the 1700s

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