I know this is pathetic to say, but sometimes I want a grilled cheese but don’t want to go to the trouble of making one.  More precisely, I don’t feel like dirtying and then washing the dishes necessary for making a grilled cheese. Enter the Toastabag, reusable bags / sleeves designed by Dutch design company Bosta that allow you to make a grille cheese right inside your toaster.  No mess.  No clean-up.  It’s the lazy...

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This is one I have to try:  take an egg and place it into a bowl / cup full of vinegar and leave for 3-7 days (I found some discrepancies here, some said three days, others said a week), and you will end up with….well you’ll just have to scroll down to see. Basically, eggs contain calcium carbonate, and when it comes into contact with an acetic acid (the vinegar) a chemical reaction occurs creating carbon dioxide.  The reaction...

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If you’re from the United States, chances are you’ve never seen the McKebab, McFalafel, or McCurry Pan on the menu at your local Mickey D’s.  But alas, they exist, as well as some – if you can believe it – more bizarre menu items. Below are some of the weirdest McDonaldss foodstuffs around.  I have put a label above some of the ones that aren’t explicitly labeled, and even typing them out felt weird.  As...

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Vanessa Dualib knows how to make eggs…come to life.  In her series titled Eggbert, Vanessa turns everyday eggs into characters that make you think twice about that morning omelet. And sorry about the terrible pun in the title.  I couldn’t...

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Just in case you thought you’d seen it all, here are some portraits ‘carved’ into Oreos by Judith G. Klausner.  I think I probably could’ve lived 1,000 years on this Earth and this would have never even come close to occurring to me as a possibility. I’m too busy worrying about calories when I’m eating Oreos to think about turning them into portraits, but they’re actually pretty cool.  You have to...

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Words cannot describe how much I love the concept of theydrawandcook.com.  I love cooking, I love drawing, and somehow it never occurred to me to mix the two.  Recipes have always had their own personalities in my mind, and seeing how other people interpret their recipes is a lot of fun. I’d love to try to immortalize some of my grandmother’s recipes this way, but quite frankly it’s a daunting task.  Perhaps I’ll start...

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