In today’s episode of BBtv, MAKE Editor at Large David Pescovitz and Xeni Jardin of BBtv get a tour of the TCHO chocolate factory. David also did a piece on TCHO for the Proto column of MAKE Volume 14. In part one of BBtv’s multi-part exploration of Tcho, we begin in the lab, and learn […]
Want to make the best dang chicken you’ve ever eaten? Try a beer can chicken on the grill. It’s pretty simple. You first cover the chicken with your favorite spice rub. I use Steven Raichlen’s basic BBQ rub of brown sugar (1/4c), sweet paprika (1/4c), pepper (3tbs), sea salt (3tbs), garlic powder (2tsp), onion powder […]
Here’s an idea I got from Alton Brown on Good Eats that I sketched up in my Maker’s Notebook. It’s for throwing a self-serve shish kabob party using a temporary fire pit made from bricks, sand, and charcoal. You make the width of the pit so that your skewers fit over it and the handles […]
We’ve mentioned making plastic with milk before; Coffeebot has a great Instructable on the subject. The plastic is moldable, and has a consistency of soggy cheese (I certainly hope I never encounter cheese that’s anything like this!). When all is said and done, it should take you about 10-15 minutes to make the plastic (less […]
It’s always nice to see ‘darn cute’ & ‘genuinely interesting’ join forces – especially when it demonstrates autonomous extraction of task constraints (to the Benny Hill theme) – The Chief Cook Robot learning to cook an omelet by whipping eggs, cutting ham and grating cheese. Through the use of a probabilistic model using Gaussian Mixture […]
Drew has reached an important milestone in DIY food reconstitution/tube-steak fabrication – Shown in this video is a lab-scale thermal depolymerization unit. It uses steam to break up food waste, and reconstitutes it into hot dogs. The finished product is nearly indistinguishable from a store-bought hot dog, and hey… at least you know what it’s […]
Kindle may not be exactly the killer e-book app we were hoping for, but it makes a lovely sugary confection. Mr. Bezos got such a geeky snortle out of it that he put it on the front page of Amazon. To eat a piece, you have to pay for each slice that you want, and […]
