Collaborate Disseminate
One of the unexpected side effects of our this pandemic is a sudden growth in the global population of captive colonies of Lactobacillus bacteria and yeast. Also known as sourdough …read more Continue reading E-Ink Equipped Sourdough Starter Jar
When it comes to food packaging, there’s no bigger scam than potato chip bags, right? People complain about the air (nitrogen, actually) inside, but it’s there for a reason — …read more Continue reading Flat-Pack Pasta: Like Ikea Furniture Without the Weird Wrench
Here’s a great picture from [Jelly & Marshmallows] that shows off the wild effects of melted chocolate poured onto a diffraction grating. A diffraction grating is a kind of optical …read more Continue reading Iridescent Rainbow Chocolate, Just Add Diffraction Grating!
Virtually any hobby has an endless series of rabbit holes to fall into, with new details to learn around every corner. This is true for beekeeping, microcontrollers, bicycles, and gardening …read more Continue reading 3D Printing Espresso Parts
Transformers have an obvious use for increasing or decreasing the voltage in AC systems, but they have many other esoteric uses as well. Electric motors and generators are functionally similar …read more Continue reading Keep Coffee Warm Through Induction Heating
[Justin Lam] created a wonderfully-detailed writeup of his Smart Sourdough Lid project, which was created out of a desire to get better data on the progress and health of his sourdough starters, and to do so more efficiently. The result …read more
Continue reading Smart Lid Spies On Sourdough Starter, Sends Data Wirelessly
If you’re anything at all like this writer, you don’t spend a lot of time inspecting brownies past the initial object identification phase, preferring to insert them directly into the mouth post-haste. But those with more of an aesthetic focus …read more
Continue reading How to Bake Brownies With A Perfect Glossy Skin
Some people like spinach in their salads. Others would prefer it if it never gets near their fork. Still, other folks, like [Almudena Romero], use it for printing pictures, and they’re the folks we’ll focus on today.
Anthotypes are positive …read more
A trip to a supermarket is a rare luxury in a pandemic lockdown, but were I to cruise the aisles with my basket today I’d probably come away with a healthy pile of fruit and veg, a bit of meat …read more
Continue reading Would You Like Fries With Your Insect Burger, Ma’am?
What did you do during lockdown? A whole lot of people turned to baking in between trips to the store to search for toilet paper and hand sanitizer. Many of them baked bread for some reason, but like us, [Sarah …read more
Continue reading Machine Learning in the Kitchen Makes for Tasty Mashup Desserts