Food & Beverage

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.

How-To: Freeze Cookie Dough

I’m always ready to eat a fresh batch of cookies and always end up baking too much for my household to eat. (Either that or I end up gorging myself. You know what I’m talking about here.) Thankfully, Katie Goodman of Good Life Eats shows you how to properly freeze cookie dough. Then you can […]

The Geometry of Pasta

The Geometry of Pasta from Pan Marketing on Vimeo. Are you lacking an Italian in your life? Ever wonder what all those amazing pasta shapes are for, and why choosing a certain shape over another matters? I certainly am, and have. Thankfully there’s a decoder cookbook, full of gorgeous black and white illustrations that appeal […]

How-To: Ninjabread Men

Instructables user Jayefuu writes: After seeing a picture of some similar ninjabread men cutters by Fred & Friends on epicwinftw.com I HAD to have some. Not being one to just buy something, I thought I’d have a go at making my own using strips of 0.5mm stainless steel and a jig to bend it around. […]

How-To: Meat Head

Andy Oakland made this Meat Head project for our DIY Halloween publication, and now this fleshy hors d’œuvre tutorial is online for free on the Make: Projects site. I’ve served a Meat Head at my Halloween parties for at least the last five years. It never fails to impress (and distress!) my guests. Wash it […]