The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.
I’m a big fan of nonpareils sprinkles on my cupcakes, but Joel Brochu is taking the treats to a whole new level in this portrait of a pup getting a bath. The piece includes 221,184 nonpareils sprinkles that are painstakingly placed using jewelers tweezers. Only six colors of sprinkles were used in the picture, giving […]
I have a real weakness for cheesecake, and have loved cardamom ever since my mom and I toiled over a bubbling pot of gulab jamon (Indian cardamom dumplings) for a 6th grade project. Here, at long last, are two of my loves married in one scrumptious-looking dessert: cardamom and cream cheese squares.
By Emilee Gettle Growing up I was quite accustomed to the yearly ritual of selecting the largest turkey we could find and babying it through the roasting process. However, once I married my vegan sweetheart, my Thanksgivings would never be the same. As usual, my creative mom came to the rescue and taught me how […]
A group of students competing in PennApps Data Hackathon created a microwave which plays a popular YouTube video that is the length of the time you’ve entered for your food to heat up. They call it the μWave and their hack won them first prize in the competition. Not only does the microwave entertain you while your left over chicken fried rice is reheating, but it also texts you when your food is done and tweets about when you use it. They used an Arduino to read the amount of time on the microwave’s 7-segment display and to communicate that information to a web server with Ruby on Rails.
Whenever the weather starts to get nippy, I convince myself that this will definitely be the year that I finally try my hand at infusing my own extracts and liqueurs. The time always seems to slip away from me, but after seeing the recipes for these lovely infused butterscotch and coffee liqueurs on Wee Folk […]
Jean at The Artful Parent posted a cool idea. Especially timely, as the leaves turn fall colors – leaf-print cookies! She used food coloring to get a bright red, but I bet you could use beet juice to get an equally intense red! Using pecan sandies dough as her canvas, she found that pressing the […]
Back in 2009, my colleague John Park published his Florence Siphon coffee brewing apparatus in MAKE Volume 17. That’s him, above, goggling up before disengaging the safety interlocks on his infernal machine. I have had the pleasure of meeting John Park on several occassions, but even if I only knew him through his hyped-up internet rockstar persona, a few things would still be obvious. For instance, he is irritatingly good-looking. Also, he takes his beverages pretty damn seriously.
