Making candy at home reads like a simple job: boil water and sugar, basically. But in practice, it’s a lot of time standing over a stove. Food science maestro Harold McGee suggests your microwave makes homemade gifts and sweet snacks much easier.
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Duck confit tastes entirely different from duck cooked almost any other way. Cooking it is all about converting tough collagen proteins – pound for pound tougher than steel – into gelatin.
iOS only: If all Cook’s Illustrated offered on the iPhone was recipes, it would easily settle into a very large pile. But the Cook’s app, like the magazine, gives you background knowledge, recommends ingredient brands and walks you through every step.
You can have your 3D glasses and eat them too, if you just follow this easy recipe over at Diamonds for Dessert for stained-glass glasses. It goes without saying, but they cost a lot less than $US150 per pair. [DfD]
The free Epicurious app for the iPad takes the impressive achievement of the iPhone version – packing Gourmet’s Big Yellow Cookbook into a finger-friendly format – and adds some serious garish. Now the cookbook is as delicious as the food itself. [iTunes]
To honour this most culinary holiday, I found a dessert recipe that, in true MacGyver fashion, can be made with equipment found in a hotel room. Here, a hair dryer provides heat—but couldn’t save this disasterpiece.
Look, I may have eaten a whole chocolate Apple tablet, but I think I could still handle devouring one of these flower pot ice creams (by “devouring” I, of course, mean “daintily eating in the most lady-like manner possible”).
