Motorized Wine Squirting Bladder
What is THAT?
So we did a little searchin’ around, found some racy topics associated with the key words, then stumbled upon a terrific blog called Fermentarium. Dude is clearly of the Hungry Scientist tribe: he’s got a degree in computer science, is a software engineer consultant, and writes obsessively about DIY wine, beer, cider, mead, and other [...]
Sneak peek
Take a first sneak peek inside the new, the beautiful, the one and only HUNGRY SCIENTIST HANDBOOK! Hitting bookstore shelves this Tuesday, folks. Get ‘em while they’re hot. (What is not hot, actually, is the fact that they omitted the hotter of the photos from the book from this sneaky peeky thing. So stay excited, [...]
Cell phone agriculture
Search for “risks of dessert farming” on NY Times online Video. First time I’ve seen irrigation systems controlled by cell phones. Anyone know how this technology works and how it could be hacked for “indoor agriculture”…?
First press!
Check it out, y’all—front page (well, not quite) of the LA Times!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2008/09/for-a-dry-ice-m.html
Grape Crush
No, not grape juice… Vino! Made with our very own hands. This past weekend the Hungry Scientist Horde headed to Healdsburg, CA, to crush the fine syrah grapes of that heavenly valley. We filled seven or eight big garbage cans with grapes, fed them through an auger to destem them, and dumped what remained into [...]
Alcoholic Ice Cream
I have been making a lot of liquid nitrogen (LN2) ice cream these days. One of the great things about this technique is that you can load your ice cream with all kinds of tasty booze.
