The Molecular Cocktails Starter Kit is the perfect gift for the mad-scientist mixologist in your life. It comes with the tools, chemical compounds, and information needed to create gels, liquid-filled spheres, foams, and UV-reactive glowing drinks. The included book contains chapters on foundational techniques derived from molecular gastronomy, as well as 50 recipes.
The Brew It Yourself Ginger Ale kit isย a great weekend project for the whole family. It comes with easy-to-follow instructions, ginger ale flavor extract, yeast, a funnel, and two blank labels. My kids enjoyed measuring, mixing, and heating ingredients, proofing the yeast, and bottling in two 2-liter bottles, adorned with their custom-made labels. After fermenting […]
Iced coffee is refreshing and delicious, but Iโve never been able to make it as well as Iโd like. As it turns out, I was doing it wrong. Rather than prepare it with a traditional hot brew method, I should have been cold brewing it. This reduces acidity and produces a concentrated flavor that stands […]
Czech maker Michal Zahradnรญk built this steam engine entirely out of blown glass. The crankshaft is glass. The piston is glass. The counterweight that makes the wheel spin evenly is glass. Imagine that everything is made out of glass. * There are no sealants used. All is accomplished by a perfectly snug fit. The gap […]
You donโt have to depend on commercial growers or expensive powders to get your spirulina fix. With this kit, you can have it fresh and alive, anytime. I made a few modifications to help mine grow faster and prevent clogging, like replacing the intake line with rubber tubing and swapping the bubble wand for a […]
Whoโd believe a sawdust log in a plastic bag could turn into a magical mushroom forest before your eyes! My first harvest was bounteous and the shiitakes delectable, but careful attention to growing conditions was required to yield multiple crops of mushrooms rather than mold. If you get 3โ5 harvests, the kit is a bargain; […]
As this post goes live, we are eleven hours and eleven minutes into the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the eleventh year of the twenty-first century. 11/11/11 is being hailed, variously, as “Elevensday,” the Last Binary Day of the Century, and Nigel Tufnel Day, and we here at MAKE would like to invite you to celebrate by joining us in building something, perhaps this weekend, that goes to eleven. Just be careful not to confuse feet (‘) and inches (“).
