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Announcements
Taste Test: Our Week Of Gluttony
8:20AM Wilson Rothman | Our week-long food special has come to an end, but that doesn’t mean you can’t relish the leftovers… More »
Random Stuff
Alton Brown’s Good Eats: The Early Years Selling Now
10:40AM Wilson Rothman | 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. More »
Gadgets
You’re Doing It Wrong: How To Buy, Maintain And Use A Knife
5:20AM Dan Nosowitz | The knife is the most essential kitchen gadget of all, yet people still buy those 25-in-one Ikea knife blocks. I called up Norman Weinstein, knife guru at New York’s Institute of Culinary Education, to get some straight talk on knives. More »
Design
The Bodum Bistro Toaster Might Actually Bounce
1:20AM Mark Wilson | Bodum’s double-walled glasses are a personal favourite, and their French press is a solid buy, too. But this rubber-skinned toaster? More »
Design
Bad Decisions: Jägermeister 6-Bottle Shot Cooler
12:03AM Mark Wilson | You know that friend of yours who was so excited for college until three weeks in when, suddenly, they packed their bags and moved back home? Just what did they encounter that was so shockingly depraved? This thing. More »
Random Stuff
Caffeine Snack Test: Who Needs Coffee When You Got Cookies And Gum?
4:00PM Danny Allen | I’m lightheaded, twitchy and kinda have the runs. This was never going to end well. The mission: Test if caffeine-infused munchies like cookies, mints, chewing-gum, and lollipops pack the same punch as energy drinks and coffee. (Hint: Most do). More »
Gadgets
The Kitchen Scale, Unsung Hero Of Great Cooking
12:00PM Michael Ruhlman | Food writer and culinary expert Michael Ruhlman didn’t want us to get through a week of celebrating kitchen gadgetry without singing praise of the digital scale. Damn the cups and tablespoons, cooking by weight is the only path to awesomeness. More »
Gadgets
Altoids: Curiously Strong, Curious Hacked
8:30AM Jack Loftus | Let’s get that Taste Test taste out of your mouths with a little after dinner mint, shall we? Then, when we’ve exhausted our supply of Altoids, we can be good little geeks and make zany things from the tins! More »
Science
Bring On The Replicator Already
6:15AM Jack Loftus | A gadget site Taste Test food week wouldn’t be complete without a hat tip to that fictional food-creating staple of the Star Trek universe, the replicator. More »
Gadgets
11:00PM Matt Buchanan | I love coffee. Probably more than you do. But I’m not as obsessed as the people who devote their lives to coffee, forever searching for the perfect cup through practices that mingle science and voodoo. I want to be. More »
Caffeine Dreams: Tasting The Perfect Coffee
11:00PM Matt Buchanan | I love coffee. Probably more than you do. But I’m not as obsessed as the people who devote their lives to coffee, forever searching for the perfect cup through practices that mingle science and voodoo. I want to be. More » 
