Purple Haze, All in My Brain
One of the chapters in our book is a collection of drinks one can make with dry ice, including fizzy lemonade, root beer, and martinis. CO2 is a gift to mixology for a couple reasons. At regular atmospheric pressure, it sublimates directly from a solid to a gas when the temperature rises above -109.3 degrees [...]
Swooning from the Fumes
We can hardly see straight we’re so overcome by the New York Times running Julia Moskin’s story and Gabriel Stabile’s gorgeous photos on the cover of the Dining Section today. We entertained the two of them last week at home (Lily’s home; not Patrick’s. We are NOT married!) and nervously demonstrated our geekoid tricks for [...]
C Us on CBS
Mutt and Jeff appeared Tuesday morning on the CBS Early Show.Â
Watch us make fools of ourselves as our gracious host Harry asked us about The Hungry Scientist Handbook. And share our amusement over the comment we elicited from a citizen seemingly equally paranoid about kitchen safety and politics.Â
Ice Cream Glory
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Make cryogenic icecream
Maker Faire 2008
We spent last weekend at the Maker Faire in Austin and made, as our pal Alex Polvi who helped us out a LOT said, a crap-load—as in, five HUNDRED—servings of ice cream with liquid nitrogen.Â
And here is [...]
Edible foil
One of the very first projects that we developed for our book was an electric candle cake. We tried several different materials and methods for creating edible circuitry: gold leaf (from Goldschlager), electrolyte-saturated sports-drink-powder, even nontoxic electrode pad gel (YUCK), then finally, edible silver foil. This atomically thin silver leaf is traditionally used as a [...]
