Food

Video: Meat glue turns cheap cuts of beef into a fake ribeye steak

Meat glue is always going to be totally weird sounding but we’ve all eaten it before (if you eat at fast food restaurants, at least). It’s derived from blood and is a clotting agent that allows different types of meat to stick to each other, hence the name. You can do a lot of weird,…

Sploid Casey Chan Jun 9

What Food Is Your Locale (Justifiably) Famous For?

Today most kinds of foods are available most places — but even so, every place still has something that do just that much better than anywhere else. Tell us in the comments where you are and about a regional dish that you either can’t, or shouldn’t, sample anywhere else. Be sure to tell us what’s…

io9 Ria Misra Jun 9

Cooking chicken and rice in space is always fun to see

Every variation of chicken and rice is great so even though this space version of tumeric chicken and whole red rice looks like the least chicken and rice-y dish ever (for obvious utilitarian reasons), I would totally give it a bite or five. The key to cooking in space (if this can be considered cooking)…

Sploid Casey Chan Jun 5

Chimps Would Totally Cook If Only We Made Ape-Friendly Easy Bake Ovens

For a long time, the only two things that have really separated humans from apes is our ability to make fire and and our propensity towards consuming french fries. Turns out that chimpanzees likely possess both these qualities as well, thanks to a study that claims they have the “desire” to cook. A New York…

Tech News Alissa Walker Jun 3

This Is Where Hunger Is Getting Better In The World — And Where It Isn’t

The world has over 200 million fewer hungry people than it did 25 years ago. So does that mean hunger is decreasing around the world? The answer is yes — but sadly, not everywhere. Overall, world hunger is certainly down. From just over a billion hungry people in 1990, a new report on food insecurity…

io9 Ria Misra Jun 3

Do Mini-Packaged Snacks Really Help You Eat Less Junk?

In recent years countless food manufacturers have been “sub-packaging” their foods into smaller portions in an apparent effort to curb folks from overindulging. You can usually find 100 kcal multi-packs of chips, pretzels, chocolates, and all sorts of junk foods. Despite the very obvious negative environmental impact of all this excess packaging, what, if any,…

Health Peter Janiszewski Jun 2

Scientists Have Worked Out Why Swiss Cheese Has Holes

The holes in Swiss cheese lend it a very distinctive appearance. But new analysis reveals that they’re not a result of gas produced bacteria in the cheese, or cheeky nibbling by mice—but something else entirely. Researchers at Agroscope, a Swiss agricultural research center, have discovered that the holes are in fact a result of tiny…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 29

The magic pizza sauce machine that sauces pizzas at Costco

Imagine a turntable but instead of a needle, you have a pizza sauce spout, and instead of a record, you have pizza crust spinning so the red sauce can cover every inch. Imagine no more. That’s how pizzas get made at Costco. Workers put the dough on the turntable and the pizzas gets expertly covered…

Sploid Casey Chan May 28

This Is Where Every Penny Of Every Dollar You Spend On Food Goes

Right down to the fraction of a cent, here’s the breakdown of where the money you spend on food goes. The USDA regularly analyzes just where all the money we spend on food goes by industry and it’s a good look at just what you’re really buying when you pick up a tomato or a…

io9 Ria Misra May 28

8 Photos That Will Make You Wish You Were Grilling Right Now

This week, you photographed your Memorial Day BBQs. And what can we say other than, is it lunchtime yet? Winner: Premium Real Estate We all understand that in NYC space is a premium. And for those that have grills it also means compromise as we can’t enjoy the behemoths our friends own out in suburbia.…

Tech News Mark Wilson May 27

Lovely illustrations of 25 different types of ramen

Anyone with motor skills and a place on their head to chew food substance loves ramen. It could be fancy, it could be instant, it could be piping hot, it could even be cold, it could be dipped, it could be weird but it is almost always fun to eat (or at least, is food…

Sploid Casey Chan May 27

Why You Crave Tomato Juice on an Airplane

I’m writing this seated on a plane heading to San Francisco. We’ve been in the air for under an hour, and the drink cart is just starting to make its way down the aisle. As the cart rolls nearer I’m forced to decide what drink I’ll be having. Since the cups are miniscule, and the…

Tech News Peter Janiszewski May 27

These Are The Most Distinctive Popular Foods In Every State

What are they eating a lot of in each state, and only there? This map has the answers. Foursquare and Mapbox put together this map of the foods you’re most likely to find in each state, over and above the nation as a whole — and just how much more likely you are to find…

io9 Ria Misra May 22

A map showing each state’s most unique favorite food

Foursquare tracked people’s tastes across America to come up with a very interesting way to determine the uniqueness of taste: they mined their user data to figure out which food or drink was disproportionately popular in each state. So this map doesn’t show what’s the most popular item in each state, but what item is…

Sploid Casey Chan May 21

Here’s What Countries Whose Hunger Problem Is Improving Do Differently

Hunger is a problem all around the world, but in some places,that problem is getting better, and in some places it isn’t. So what are the improvers doing differently than the rest of the world? There’s one big difference. The USDA takes a regular look at the state of countries with hunger problems around the…

io9 Ria Misra May 20

Lobster Used To Be Cheap — Here’s How That Changed

Even if you don’t enjoy lobster (and I don’t, particularly), more than perhaps any other food it’s synonymous with a certain kind of luxury. But it wasn’t always that way. In fact, for a long time it was just the opposite. In response to a piece on surprisingly common things that used to be status…

io9 Ria Misra May 19

A GoPro strapped to chopsticks shows how fun it is to eat exotic foods

I don’t believe that Chinese food should always be eaten with chopsticks but it sure makes it fun. Or at least, strapping a GoPro onto a pair of chopsticks makes it look fun, especially when you delve into some of the funkier looking dishes. Anne-Sophie Bazard filmed her and her friends touring Beijing and eating…

Sploid Casey Chan May 19

This french fry bun cheeseburger flips my stomach inside out

The end is here. The pinnacle has been reached. Gimmicky hamburger buns no longer need to exist. Stop creating. Because nothing will ever top The Vulgar Chef’s French Fry Burger Bomb because it makes a bun out of french fries, the hamburger’s natural mouth slush and womb co-inhabitant. Instead of taking a bite out of…

Sploid Casey Chan May 15

12 delicious and absolutely gorgeous ways to cook an egg

Add an egg to anything and your life instantly gets better. You can eat it on its own after its cooked however which way, you can add it to pasta to make a carbonara, you could make dessert with it and heck, even make drinks with it. It’s the perfect food. Here are 12 things…

Sploid Casey Chan May 15

Of Course Restaurants Are Designing Meals Just to Look Good on Instagram

It was only a matter of time. Though it’s not unusual for eateries to place plenty of importance on presentation (“we eat with our eyes first”, and all that), the rise of amateur food photographers means that one US restaurant chain has now admitted that it actively designs dishes based on how good they will…

Tech News Gerald Lynch - Gizmodo UK May 15

Video: Meat glue turns cheap cuts of beef into a fake ribeye steak

What Food Is Your Locale (Justifiably) Famous For?

Cooking chicken and rice in space is always fun to see

Chimps Would Totally Cook If Only We Made Ape-Friendly Easy Bake Ovens

This Is Where Hunger Is Getting Better In The World — And Where It Isn’t

Do Mini-Packaged Snacks Really Help You Eat Less Junk?

Scientists Have Worked Out Why Swiss Cheese Has Holes

The magic pizza sauce machine that sauces pizzas at Costco

This Is Where Every Penny Of Every Dollar You Spend On Food Goes

8 Photos That Will Make You Wish You Were Grilling Right Now

Lovely illustrations of 25 different types of ramen

Why You Crave Tomato Juice on an Airplane

These Are The Most Distinctive Popular Foods In Every State

A map showing each state’s most unique favorite food

Here’s What Countries Whose Hunger Problem Is Improving Do Differently

Lobster Used To Be Cheap — Here’s How That Changed

A GoPro strapped to chopsticks shows how fun it is to eat exotic foods

This french fry bun cheeseburger flips my stomach inside out

12 delicious and absolutely gorgeous ways to cook an egg

Of Course Restaurants Are Designing Meals Just to Look Good on Instagram

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