Collaborate Disseminate
The discovery suggests that Natufian hunter-gatherers baked bread from wild grains long before it was cultivated from crops. Continue reading The Oldest Bread Ever Found Dates Back 14,400 Years and Predates Agriculture
Those of you who’ve never had a real sourdough have never had real bread. Good food fights back a little when you eat it, and a proper sourdough, with its crispy crust and tangy center, certainly fits the bill. Sourdough aficionados, your humble writer included, all have recipes that we pretend are ancient family secrets while in reality we’re all just guessing. Sourdough is partly science, partly art, but mostly delicious black magic.
In an effort to demystify his sourdough process, [Justin Lam] has gone digital with this image processing sourdough starter monitor. Sourdough breads are leavened not by the …read more
Continue reading Raspberry Pi Tracks Starter Fermentation For Optimized Sourdough
Just in case you thought your eyes were playing tricks on you, we’d like to confirm right from the start that what you are looking at is a loaf of bread with internal LED lighting. Why has this bread been internally lit? We can’t really say. But what we can do is pass on the fascinating process that took an unremarkable piece of stale bread and turned it into an exceptional piece of stale bread.
As demonstrated by [The Maker Monster], working with stale bread is basically like working with wood. Wood that you can dip in soup, granted, but …read more
Continue reading Illuminated Bread for a Cookie Cutter World
We will be the first to admit, we like to use Git for a lot of things that are probably off the beaten path. But now thanks to [hendricius] you can find out how to make your own bread on GitHub. Let’s get one thing straight. This isn’t the breadmaker fad from a while back, although we are surprised we don’t see more hacked together breadmakers with Internet connectivity. This is old-fashioned bread baking with a bowl, some ingredients, and an oven or another heat source.
You might think this is just using Git as a repository for recipes, but …read more
Continue reading Breadboarding: Git for A/B Testing Actual Bread
Author and activist Tristram Stuart has launched campaigns, new businesses, and community events to stop nations from squandering food. Continue reading This Campaigner Wants to End the Global Food Waste Scandal
A lot of people knew the Space Shuttle had ceramic tiles to protect its nose from reentry heat. That’s mostly because the tiles fell off a lot and each one was a unique shape, so it got a lot of press coverage. However, you didn’t hear as much about the parts of the orbiter that got really hot: the forward part of the wings and the tip of the nose. For those, NASA used an exotic material called RCC or reinforced carbon-carbon. Other uses include missile nose cones and Formula One brakes. A similar material, carbon fiber-reinforced silicon carbide appears …read more
Continue reading Amazing Carbon Foam Doesn’t Take Much Bread