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For the hockey-loving grill master who has everything, there’s the Hockey Stick BBQ Set. Made from genuine repurposed hockey sticks, the set includes a spatula, fork and tongs.
Just don’t burn the burgers again, or you go to the box for two minutes and feel shame. Available here.
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If you don’t know a colander from a cookie sheet, or what a box grater is for… Then first, step away from the kitchen. Second, grab a copy of The Cartography of Kitchenware by Pop Chart Lab, and hang it on your wall, pronto.
The 24″ x 36″ poster is beautifully printed on 100lb archival recycled stock, and is “the world’s most thorough mapping of kitchenware” which includes over 200 tools, machines, and manipulators. Now, get back in there and put that spatula and meat tenderizer to good use.
[get a closer look here]
XKCD and their weekly “What If?” column answers the burning question, “From what height would you need to drop a steak for it to be cooked when it hit the ground?”
So, measuring steak speed against steak altitude, along with some NASA-level geekdom, we get an answer — sort of. Hopefully you like your steak Pittsburgh-style and partially frozen.
“For much of those 25 kilometers, the air temperature is below freezing—which means the steak will spend six or seven minutes subjected to a relentless blast of subzero, hurricane-force winds. Even if it is cooked by the fall, you’ll probably have to defrost it when it lands.”
“If dropped from 70 kilometers, the steak will go fast enough to be briefly blasted by 350°F air. Unfortunately, this blast of thin, wispy air barely lasts a minute—and anyone with some basic kitchen experience can tell you that a steak placed in the oven at 350 for 60 seconds isn’t going to be cooked.”
[full explanation here, via BoingBoing]
Something called Hipster Dust exists, and it’s as magically pretentious as it sounds. The ‘dust’ is a mixture of various spices “to flavor vegetables, soups, noodles and everything else.” So, let’s review its hipsterness, shall we? Created in Williamburg, Brooklyn — check. Vegan — obvs. Monochromatic minimalist packaging — done and done. Seems pretty legit.
Hipster Dust is available for $5 per 2oz. tin. Sprinkle some on your vegan brunch or random kale-based dish. Then wash it down with a PBR, or whatever you’ve been drinking since before it was cool.
[link, via Design Taxi]
If you’ve ever cooked in front of a television camera, and now have a schtick that’s run its course — then the next logical step is your own line of cookware. Epic Meal Time, the culinary equivalent of Jackass, has been grossing us out for some time now — becoming the most popular internet food show in the process.
Now, the Epic Meal Time Cooking Arsenal is here to help breath some life into the franchise, and help you step up your game in the kitchen. If that ‘game’ includes making meals that exceed 100,000 calories using questionable kitchen tools.
The Arsenal includes a Non-Stick Bacon Sizzler (fry pan), the Sauceboss Sauce Pot, the ‘Get Sauced’ Pan, Epic Shanks (knives), some other random tools, cutting board, and baking tray.
[link, via Tasteologie]