Food

Eggs Shaped Like Golf Balls Mean It’s Finally OK To Play With Your Food

Playing with your food is a real no-no when you’re a kid. But once you’re old enough to head off to college, it suddenly becomes OK—at least if Animal House taught us anything. And OK or not, it’s all but impossible to resist playing around with a boiled egg that’s been molded into the shape…

We’re in a Technological Arms Race with Bears for Our Food

It’s almost impossible to secure yourself against a food raid from bears. That’s because these giant mammals are clever tool users, and they share their tech knowledge with other bears nearby. As a result, bear-proofing technology rarely works for more than a couple of decades before every bear knows how to crack it. Back in…

A Webcomic About A Witch Learning To Bake Without Magic—With Recipes!

Actually, there are two witches at the heart of Victoria Grace Elliott’s webcomic balderdash! One is an elk rancher hoping to apprentice herself to a baker in a town that frowns upon magic. The other is a young sorceress running away from school. And we get to bake along with their adventures. The first witch…

KFC’s Double Down hot dog is a sausage wrapped in a fried chicken bun

Here is proof that there’s always more horrifying Frankenfood left to be invented and more stomachs to destroy with fast food: the Double Down hot dog. It’s KFC’s take on a hot dog only instead of using a regular hot dog bun, KFC is whipping out a bun made with fried chicken. It looks ridiculous.…

Scientists Can Now Unboil Eggs to Hopefully Make Cancer Drugs Cheaper

It sounds like research that doesn’t have much more of a practical application than making people say “neat,” but chemists at UC Irvine have figured out a way to unboil egg whites—turning them from a solid back into a liquid—and the process behind it promises to help lower the production cost of cancer drugs and…

Head over to History Extra to learn how British breakfasts evolved from a privilege to the most important meal of the day. The key was the establishment of regular work hours. [History Extra]

Is There Any Real Cheese in Cheese Whiz?

As America gets ready for their upcoming Super Bowl parties (or Royal Rumble party, if that’s your thing), Cheez Whiz – the yellowish-orange, gooey, bland tasting “cheese” product – will surely make an appearance at some of them. But what is Cheez Whiz? Why did get it invented? And is there really cheese in Cheez…

The Wonut may be the best invention ever since the Cronut

If you go to Chicago, don’t forget to pass by Waffles Café to try this new gem of culinary frankensteining: The Wonut—a cross between a waffle and a donut that, according to some people, “it is indeed pretty good. Not exactly what expected from the taste, but by far some of the best waffling I’ve…

Could the Kool-Aid Man Really Survive Crashing Through a Brick Wall?

It’s a question that every kid has kept in the back of their minds since first seeing that giant jug of sugary liquid come bursting through a wall on those Kool-Aid commercials: could the Kool-Aid Man really survive such an 0ver-the-top entrance? So Vsauce3 has finally taken the time to break down the science and…

Here’s Why More Schools Should Schedule Recess Before Lunch

A study published in the latest issue of Preventive Medicine found that when recess is held right before lunch instead of immediately after, the amount of fruits and vegetables eaten by students increases by more than 50%. The NYT’s KJ Dell’Antonia has more details at Motherlode: Research has long suggested that students who have recess…

One Way That Beer is Healthier Than Carrot Juice

If someone were to put a pint of beer and a pint of carrot juice in front of you, telling you to pick the safer option, you’d go for the carrot juice, right? You fool! Sure, beer is full of alcohol, but compared to carrot juice it’s relatively free of something else — radioactivity. When…

Watching dessert get made is totally pornographic

I don’t know if I’m hungry or turned on right now and it’s such a weird mix of feelings to experience at the same time. The close up shots of this Chocolate Framboise Mille-Feuille is borderline explicit and yet it’s just food being whisked and dolloped, whipped and dripped around. It’s artful pornography you can…

Cholon: Colombia’s Party Island

Like big butts? Just a 45-minute boat ride from Cartagena is an idyllic island paradise that each weekend and holiday turns into the city’s best party scene. Everything in Colombia is difficult and most things don’t turn out how you expect. While visiting Cartagena with the girlfriend’s family over New Year’s we chartered a boat…

Video: Inside the factory that makes Sriracha

Sriracha, the hot sauce God would ask for if he ate on Earth, is still made from the same recipe when it first started decades ago. Only the chilis are hotter now. And the sauce is more popular. And the production is much, much larger. Hypebeast took a tour of the giant factory that makes…

This Ancient Giant Armadillo Is Responsible For Giving Us The Avocado

But not just this giant armadillo. Giant sloths, four-tusked elephants, and a whole bunch of other ancient mammals that roamed the earth over 10,000 years ago also all played a role. Over at National Geographic’s The Plate, they’re looking at the history of how the modern avocado evolved. The history of humans and avocados stretches…

Shake Shack’s new fried shallots burger looks like crunchy deliciousness

Shake Shack, very probably the world’s best burger chain, is introducing a new burger to their vaunted lineup: the ShackMeister Burger. It’s a 100% all-natural Angus beef cheeseburger that is topped with crispy marinated shallots and their famous ShackSauce. It’s like a cheeseburger with fancy onion rings in it. I’m in. The burger—which I’m going…

9 Delicious Christmas Cookie Photos (With Recipes!)

It’s Christmas time. And no matter your faith, you’ll probably agree, it’s the most delicious cookie time of the year. Here are cookies that you baked and photographed. And if you’re so brave as to bake yourself, many have the recipe, too! Winner: Minted White Chocolate Balls My mom participates in a “cookie exchange” every…

Chinese Food On Christmas Is No Longer Solely A Jewish Tradition

This is the time of year when, for American Jews such as myself, visions of Chinese plum sauce dance in my head. It’s a trend that dates back decades—the Chinese food Christmas meal has been whimsically described as a sacred Jewish tradition. But, recent research reveals that it’s become popular among non-Jews as well. The…

Why Do We Eat Spoiled Food?

Not all spoiled food is created equal. Most everyone has an aversion to rotten foods. After all, they taste awful. But what about the foods we spoil intentionally? What separates rancid meet, for example, from moldy cheese, or bacteria-laden Salami? https://gizmodo.com/why-do-rotten-foods-taste-so-awful-1542078946 In the latest episode of MinuteEarth, Henry Reich tackles the question of intentional spoilage…

Gingerbread Enterprise Boldly Goes Where No Biscuit Has Gone Before

Sorry, Gingerbread Serenity – your reign as première gingerbread starship may have come to an end, because this biscuity, holidays-themed U.S.S. Enterprise is pretty damn amazing. The beautiful Constitution Class bit of baking comes from Blackmarket Bakery in CA, who created it to display in their Costa Mesa store window. It’s a spectacular bit of…