Recipe: Whiskey Sugar Rocks
It might be a bit early in the day to talk about adding booze to your coffee, but it’s Friday, so I’m doing it anyway.
Food & Beverage
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.
DIY Microwave Popcorn
Here’s a money saver: Stop buying those boxes of prepackaged microwave popcorn, and do it yourself, cheaper and healthier. All you need is a brown paper bag and some popping-corn kernels, which you can purchase cheaply in bulk. Self-proclaimed tinkerer Wardie discovered this a few months ago, and shares the details on his blog, Wardie’s World. He also figured out how to successfully salt air-popped popcorn without oil or butter!
How-To: Checkerboard Birthday Cake
Banish boring sweets from your next party! Impress your guests with a checkerboard birthday cake.
Escher Cookies (with 3D-Printed Rollers)
Create awesome, sweet Escher cookies using 3D printed rollers with MC Escher art on them.
Today on Food Makers: Reskilling
The Buckeye Gathering is an annual event in Northern California aimed at teaching and reviving lost arts and primitive skills. Here’s how the organizers described reskilling or primitive living skills:
“Primitive living skills are our original technologies. All of us, every human, has ancestors who made fire and tools from plant, stone, & bone. Because reconnecting with traditional living requires knowledge of the local ecosystems, of the bioregion and its resources, we emphasize local flora and fauna. Although all of our forebears lived earth-based cultures at some point, California Indians tended this land for millennia before European arrival, so we at Buckeye place their particular technology and history at the forefront. We cannot roll back time to a pristine past, but we may learn fundamental lessons from the people who have come before, teachings integral to our healthy survival.”
Today on Food Makers, a Google+ hangout on air at 2pm PST/5EST, I’ll be talking food and food making with some of the organizers behind the Buckeye Gathering about what skills we’ve lost and how we can go about relearning them.
How-To: LED Gummy Candies
The good folks over at adafruit industries have put together an amazing tutorial on making gummy candies that look just like 10 mm LEDs!
Make Your Own Cheap and Efficient Rocket Stove
Keith Levy of New Zealand whipped up this neat little rocket stove out of two small cans cut and fit together inside of a larger can. He says, “If I don’t get back to basics at least once a day, then it hasn’t been a good day.”
