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Gadgets

Kitchen Gifts For Amateur Chefs Who Yearn To Be Iron

Geeks love cooking and there’s no mystery why: it’s science you can eat! We spent a week salivating over food gadgets, gathering tips and wisdom along the way. From that experience comes our list of best (and worst) gift ideas:

September 1, 2009
Geek Out

Alton Brown’s Good Eats: The Early Years Selling Now

Taste Test food week wouldn’t have been complete without our fun Q&As with Alton Brown, but his hot-out-of-the-oven book Good Eats: The Early Years is the real news peg.

August 29, 2009
Science

MacGyver Chef: Box Fan Beef Jerky

Since Alton Brown is pretty much nerd-dom’s representative on food TV, I figured I’d have to tackle one of his recipes for MacGyver Chef. I chose a classic: Beef jerky made with a box fan.

August 28, 2009
Gadgets

Alton Brown: Kitchen Unitasker Lightning Round – Yea Or Nay?

You know the deal: Alton hates single-purpose kitchen gadgets. So I read him a list of unitaskers that I thought might make the cut. Here’s what did—and what didn’t—meet the maestro’s approval, along with his colour commentary:

August 26, 2009
Gadgets

Alton Brown: Safe And Scary Kitchen Hacks

Alton Brown famously disdains spending money on “unitaskers” and other kitchen gadgets, when you can just as easily (and far more cheaply) get by with what’s around the house. Here’s what happened when I asked about his favourite hacks.

August 25, 2009
News

Taste Test

From the fires that blessed and cursed primitive man to that replicator in Picard’s quarters that always delivers tea Earl Grey hot, food and innovation are bound eternally.

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