The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.
Love the looks of this wooden espresso machine model. Created at Oslo School of Architecture and Design by student Oystein Husby as an expression of the Nordic connection to coffee. An interesting part of the process was their moving from CAD model to wooden cross-sections: CATIA was next. Considering we were to make the machine […]
Eric Weinhoffer submitted these photos of his cool laser cut gear coasters to the MAKE Flickr pool. He designed the coasters in AutoCAD and made the file available to all of us over at Thingiverse. Thanks for sharing, Eric!
From the MAKE Flickr pool: Flickr user usopyon and friends created this internet-enabled cotton candy machine. It consists of an Arduino-powered colored sugar mixer, which dispenses measured amounts of pink, green, and blue sugar to create a uniquely colored puff of cotton candy for each user. Yum!
John Park @ MAKE writes: “I enjoy making my own cocktail bitters, which involves steeping things like herbs, roots, barks, rinds, and more in high-proof alcohol for a few weeks, and then straining the mixture.”
Roasted asparagus, wrapped in prosciutto with bubbly cheese on top? Yes, please. Get the simple recipe over on Small Notebook.
One of the projects in the new issue of MAKE (Volume 26, on sale April 26th) is on how to create your own Spirulina tank. Spirulina is an edible algae that’s well-known for its health benefits. The project in MAKE teaches you how to make a home algae tank you can build in just a […]
Today we posted up Katie Goodman’s beautiful recipe for Quiche Lorraine. Now take a look at her worst kitchen disaster posted on her food blog, Good Life Eats. So many of us are used to her amazing recipes and mouth-watering photos that we probably she’s impervious to something like this. I like these humbling stories […]
