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Lasers… They’re not just for your fancy science fiction movies anymore. The future is now, people, and that future is cooking bacon with a laser.
Science professor, Kentaro Fukuchi, is here to show us how. The video by Munchies takes us into a laser lab, while Fukuchi programs a laser printer to cook the bacon’s fatty parts.
The result… A product that “smells like the dentist.” And, there’s no eggs to be found anywhere. Don’t throw out your cast iron pan just yet.
We’ve all been there… spotting a piece of produce that strongly resembles a friend or random cartoon character, only to dismiss it as unbuyable. But when 19-year-old Brazilian student, Roberta Bernardo, spots a root vegetable with a potential face, she seizes the opportunity.
Roberta found a potato that, let’s face it, most of us would’ve walked past giggling. But what she did was take that malformed potato home, bathed it, gave it some eyes, and named it Batata (Potato in Portuguese).
She also set Batata on a series of adventures, most of which you can find on the potato’s Facebook page. Yes, an anthropomorphic potato has a Facebook page. One that you know you want to follow.
[link, via Lost At E Minor]
When boring old slices of cucumbers and zucchini just won’t do, there’s the Cucumbo Spiral Slicer. Designed to look like a large colorful bolt, simply impale a tubular vegetable in the Cucumbo and twist.
The result… a continuous slice that will add a little something to your salad, or any other dishes that could use an edible slinky.
The Cucumbo is available in green at The Foodiggity Shop.
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At the time of this writing, there are no fewer than 37,000 OREO flavors. However, it’s no matter, because OREO Churros now exist in various forms, and the sandwich cookie is dead.
Introduced last year, this latest version of the dessert stick offers a convenient “grab-and-go” option. They even save you the trouble of having to dip them, as they’re already filled with creamy-goodness. Sorry, cookies.
We’d like to think that artists, regardless of their level of fame or cultural status, would still play with their food. Artist, Hannah Rothstein, showed us what this might look like last year, and now she’s back for seconds.
Thanksgiving Special: Seconds focuses on a few more modern artists plating Thanksgiving dinner — including Keith Haring, Gustav Klimt, Joan Miro and Salvador Dali.
Check out more of the project below. There are also prints of each available, with a portion of the proceeds donated to the SF Food Bank to help feed families in need this Thanksgiving.
[link, via Mental Floss]