August 26, 2012
Here's a neat kitchen tip for the next time you're whipping up an egg white omelet or lemon meringue pie.
Did you know? An empty plastic water bottle can be used to easily separate egg yolks from the whites. All you have to do is slightly squeeze the bottle, hold it over the yolk and it will magically suck up into the bottle.
I must try this immediately. As soon as I stop replaying this video.
(via GITK)
August 22, 2012
Sometimes
Amazon reviews are extremely helpful. Other times they're just amusing. Such is the case for
Victorio Kitchen Products 571B Banana Slicer.
What's so entertaining about a simple kitchen tool that evenly slices bananas? Nothing at all. Which is why reviewers are having a little fun with the product. (Truthfully, I kind of want to buy one now.)
Here are a couple of the better ones thus far:
No More Hard Work! August 19, 2012
By
Wustaf
No longer do I have to get out a ruler to make sure I slice the banana in to equal pieces. Every time I am a centimeter off I would have to throw away the whole banana and start over! I spent an average of $1.00 a week on banana because of this. Thanks to this amazing invention I can save so much time and money now!
No more winning for you, Mr. Banana! March 3, 2011
By SW3K
For decades I have been trying to come up with an ideal way to slice a banana. "Use a knife!" they say. Well...my parole officer won't allow me to be around knives. "Shoot it with a gun!" Background check...HELLO! I had to resort to carefully attempt to slice those bananas with my bare hands. 99.9% of the time, I would get so frustrated that I just ended up squishing the fruit in my hands and throwing it against the wall in anger. Then, after a fit of banana-induced rage, my parole officer introduced me to this kitchen marvel and my life was changed. No longer consumed by seething anger and animosity towards thick-skinned yellow fruit, I was able to concentrate on my love of theatre and am writing a musical play about
two lovers from rival gangs that just try to make it in the world. I think I'll call it South Side Story.
Banana slicer...thanks to you, I see greatness on the horizon.
> Read many more reviews and/or buy your own slicer here
(via Neatorama)
August 16, 2012
"Oh my goodness, oh my DAYUM!" Hide yo' ketchup, hide yo' fries — The Gregory Brothers have done it again. (And I'm not even a Five Guys gal, however this video is 5-star.)
Here's the original video that inspired this work of genius.
> Previously, in humorous restaurant reviews
Know anyone who's homesick? Luckily, there's a new cure:
Canned Air. For just $9.99 you can purchase a tin can filled with air collected from various cities like Paris, New York City and Singapore.
Here's the
AIR from PARIS description, for example:
The "AIR from PARIS" is a middle-sized can filled with the spirit of the city, a
piece of world heritage. The can is 88 mm (3,46 in) high and 86mm (3,38 in) in
diameter.
We have established a direct contact to a supplier in Paris, France. Each week we receive a few hundreds of gallons of fresh air from Paris.
The Air Formula is:
20% The Louvre
20% Notre Dame
25% Eiffel
Tower
15% Musée d'Orsay
10% Champs-Elysées
10% Sacre Coeur
ATTENTION! May contain traces of liberté, égalité and fraternité.
The product is 100% bio. Fresh air from Paris relieves stress, cures homesickness
and helps fighting nostalgia.
I'm not exactly sure how Detroit would "smell," nor am I really sure whether I'd actually want to know. But air from various other cities is currently being canned, so perhaps we'll soon find out.
(via Etsy)
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Merit Winner: "Looking into Another World"
"This is the great Japanese maple tree in the Portland Japanese Gardens. I tried to bring a
different perspective of this frequently photographed tree." —Fred An, Photographer |
National Geographic Traveler has announced the winners of its 24th annual photo contest. This year, the magazine received more than 12,000 images from 6,615 photographers in 152 countries around the globe.
As the winning images exhibit,
Instagram is a revolutionary tool, but it can only bring amateur photos so far. There's still something to be said for a keen eye and the ability to design an interesting composition with unique perspective.
> View all of the stunning NatGeo contest photos here
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| Photos: EPA/Julien Warnan |
Every two years, since 1971, the
Grand Place of Brussels is transformed by thousands of locally-grown begonias.
The flowers are intricately arranged into
the famous Tapis de Fleurs (or "carpet of flowers").
This week, more than 120 volunteers painstakingly laid 600,000 flowers across the Belgian capital's square. The theme of the 2012 carpet was a tribute to African tapestry weavers.
(via HuffPo)
August 14, 2012
"What makes a great chef? Well... training and technique of course,
plus a great love of food, a generous personality and the ability to invent
Hot Chocolate Truffles." —JULIA CHILD (Aug. 15, 1912 – Aug. 13, 2004)
PBS is going all out to celebrate
Julia Child's 100th Birthday because, in their words, "Julia Child was a beloved American icon who pioneered an entire genre of cooking shows and taught a generation of food lovers that cooking can be easy and enjoyable."
The best part of their
#CookForJulia celebration may just be this "Keep On Cooking" remix, from the same folks who brought us
Bob Ross "Happy Little Clouds."
Warning: Do not watch while under the influence of hunger.
The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution broke major food news yesterday:
Cinnabon is broadening its menu, and metro Atlantans will be the first to have a taste.
The Atlanta-based company has created a bakery-cafe at its Cumberland Mall location that will be used as a test kitchen for new products, said Cinnabon president Kat Cole. They include a new croissant, an apple danish, cupcakes, breakfast sandwiches and iced coffees.
...and the
Pizzabon. It's constructed like a cinnamon roll, but made with cheese, pepperoni and tomato sauce. Speaking of over-sized buns, airplane seats may need enlarging if this actually becomes a reality, as being at the airport with limited food resources is the only time it's semi-excusable to patronize Cinnabon. At least that's what I tell myself.
(via Eater)
August 13, 2012
"Ball" by Everynone is bouncing its way around the web. The film is a simple, well-constructed montage of results compiled mostly from a Google Images Search.
(via Flavorwire)
It's just another maniacal Monday. This will either make you laugh... or cry. Or maybe a little bit of both. Mwahahahaha.
(via Mashable)
August 10, 2012
All of us have built things with
LEGO toys, and most of us have
experienced stepping on LEGO bricks while barefoot, but how familiar are you with the LEGO company's unique history?
On August 10, 1932, Danish toymaker
Ole Kirk Christiansen founded LEGO company in the city of Bellund, Denmark. The LEGO brand name itself emerged later, in 1934, from an abbreviation of the Danish phrase "LEG GODT," meaning "Play Well."
According to LEGO, "the bricks can be combined in an endless variety of combinations in continuously new ways." For example, "For six bricks of the same color with 2 X 4 studs alone, there are 915 million combination possibilities. The imagination has therefore no boundaries."
Watch this cute animated video created for LEGO's 80th birthday to learn more:
(via LEGO)
August 6, 2012
Oreo/Nabisco is cleverly milking the Mars rover landing. Those smart cookies.
Note: The red creme is currently unavailable. Photoshop, folks.
(via Daily Twist)
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| "Six Self-Portraits" (1986), Andy Warhol |
“Don’t think about making art, just get it done.
Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it.
While they are deciding, make even more art.”
—Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987)
> More: A Fan Letter for Warhol's Birthday
August 2, 2012
Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Frosted Flakes and Lucky Charms filled
my cereal bowl once in a while as a kid, but for the most part I was a non-sugar cereal girl — Kix, mostly. But that doesn't mean I don't know my
cereal mascots. How many can you identify?
Answer Key:
King Ayummayumma (Fruit Islands), Boo Berry, Cap'n Crunch, Dig 'Em (Honey
Smacks), Eet (Kellogg's Eet and Ern), Frankenberry, Sir Grapefellow, Honey Nut
Cheerios' Buzz Bee, Ice Cream Jones (Ice Cream Cones), Jean LaFoote (Cinnamon
Crunch), King Vitaman, L.C. Leprechaun (Lucky Charms), Mr. Mini-Wheat
(Mini-Wheats), Newton Owl (Cocoa Hoots), Officer Krum (Cookie Crisp), Pop (Rice
Krispies), Quisp, Trix Rabbit, Toucan Sam (Froot Loops), Tony the Tiger (Frosted
Flakes), Undercover Bears (Undercover Bears Instant Oatmeal), Baron Von
Redberry, Wendell (Cinnamon Toast Crunch), Extreme Creme Taste Oreo's mascot,
Yummy Mummy, Zuco Bear (Nestle Snow Flakes / Zucosos)
(via Mike BaBoon)
August 1, 2012
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| Image credit: Subway |
NBC is playing the you-know-what out of Olympics commercials,
like this one for Subway.
Aside from Olympian speed skater Apolo
Yoko Ohno, the ad features an informative bar graph showing the "super food" avocado and how it compares to... you know, how it relates to... well, something to do with avocados and some sort of growth of some other factor over time. Nobody can quite figure it out.
Luckily,
Gawker decided to investigate this very pressing matter; Subway provided an official response:
Given the sports science nature of the spot, the graph was designed to draw the eye upward in trend - a trait we typically perceive as positive. In this case, we thought of the upward (positive) trend as related to taste, as in Avocado increasing the taste factor of said sandwich.
In other words, the x-axis = avocado and the y-axis = taste factor. Makes sense.
The slope of knowing > a good night's sleep = tonight.
Today is
World Middle Finger Day: "A global day to celebrate the freedom to object, using the most universal gesture of discontent or protest: The Middle Finger."
A very happy F U to all!
(via The Atlantic)
Even if you don't watch
"Project Runway" (who does anymore?), the honest critiques spewed out by designer/judge
Michael Kors are completely fantastic. They're like the opposite of "wallpaper and curtains at a really tacky catering hall."
> Many more gems at Kors' Metaphors
(via Buzzfeed)
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