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I am digging I Spy DIY’s GUY DIY week. We can’t forget our dudes in the craft game, ladies. This leather-covered flask is the perfect way to get a maker dude started on crafting cool stuff or would make a nice Valentine’s Day gift for your honey.
Warm weather is not so far away and that means the outdoor cooking season coming up. With that in mind, I thought it would be interesting to talk about how to build a variety of outdoor ovens. In today’s episode of Food Makers, a Google+ hangout on air at 2pmPST/5pmEST, I’ll be talking to experts Kiko Denzer and Eva and Max Edelson. Kiko is the author Build Your Own Earth Oven and Eva and Max founded Firespeaking, a website about masonry heaters, wood-fired heaters, and natural building.
Zwax demonstrated his Amalettomat robot at Roboexotica 2012, the Vienna-based annual festival of cocktail robotics. One thing I noticed from the lineup is how many aren’t actually cocktail robots! Zwax’s breakfast bot pours batter, cooks it up, then rolls up the crepe when it’s ready. Zwax, a member of Austria’s premiere hackerspace, Metalab, is featured […]
Well! This project definitely takes “playing with your food” to a whole new level.
On this week’s episode of Food Makers, a Google+ hangout on air, I’ll be talking to Tim Burton, not the director, but the man behind Burton’s Maplewood Farm in Indiana In New England and America’s upper Midwest, the sap is flow in maple trees and that means sugaring season is near. Tim will talk about the craft of maple syrup, the tools of the trade, his sought-after barrel aged syrup, and the upcoming National Maple Syrup Festival. Sounds sweet, doesn’t it? Tune in right here at 2pm PST and 5pm EST.
Math is a universal language, so why save the symbols of mathematics just for equations? These clever “Greater Than Drunk” and “Less Than Sober” pint glasses are designed to help you communicate with the precision of a math geek, and of course, to help you consume in style!
It’s citrus season, and I was recently reminded of an interesting way to prepare grapefruit, my favorite citrus fruit: broiling!
