Archive for July, 2008

Do You Know How to Buy a Grill Rotisserie?

Posted on July 17th, 2008.

Anyone can grill a hot dog or hamburger, but can you roast large chunks of meat over a flame? Adding a rotisserie to your grill will take your grilling experience to a whole new level. What do you think your neighbors will say when you serve delicious, juicy, rotisserie chicken, turkey or lamb?
Here’s a rotisserie [...]

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Free The Meat?

Posted on July 16th, 2008.

OK, at first thought, you’d think “freethemeat.org” is seriously NSFW, but as it turns out, it’s hawking the “MariVac“, which is not the ship that fought the Monitor back in the Civil War. Rather, it’s a device which strongly resembles a prop from a bad Irwin Allen mid-60s sci-fi show, but which is actually a [...]

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Dead Lobster Walking….Crawling…Something…

Posted on July 14th, 2008.

Even though I am a fan of “Food Snuff Films”, otherwise known as “Iron Chef”, I find I am quite incapable of actually killing my own food. I grew up in the suburbs, far from farms or even butchers; to me, meat is something that grows inside styrofoam and plastic wrap. (Dear PETA people: I [...]

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Things You Can Do With A Banana

Posted on July 12th, 2008.

(I strongly recommend not typing the above into Google Image Search. I’m just sayin’…)
Anyway…
The humble banana. Rich in both potassium and comedic potential, it is a staple food. Not as trendy or chic as a kiwi, it is an elegant foodstuff from a more civilized time.
This doesn’t mean it can be the subject of useless…or, [...]

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Insert Some Nose Related Pun Here

Posted on July 11th, 2008.

You know, like “That’s SNOT funny!” or “Nobody NOSE about this!” or some other lame, obvious, gag. I prefer to let the facts speak for themselves. Here is advice:If you type “Strange Kitchen Gear” into Google, you will find, in the words of Howard Carter, “wonderful things”. OK, he was talking about giant gold boats [...]

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The Mango Pitter

Posted on July 10th, 2008.

“Honey, let’s have mangos!”
“But how will we ever pit them?”
“I don’t know. Gosh. Let’s have Big Macs instead!”
I’m sure you’ve had this conversation many times around your home. Fortunately, now there is a solution! For centuries, perhaps millennia, Man has confronted the conundrum that is the mango. While trivial issues such as curing polio, landing [...]

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How to Know Which Barbecue Grill is for You

Posted on July 10th, 2008.

Just because there’s fire doesn’t mean it has to come from gas. Do you ever wonder what the difference is between gas, charcoal and electric grills? You may be surprised that what works best for your neighbor isn’t always the best for you.
Here are a few choices for you to consider:

Gas Grill

Charcoal Grill

Electric Smoker/Grill

Once you [...]

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Tally Ho!

Posted on July 8th, 2008.

OK, sometimes I look for weird things on the net just to momentarily bolster my ego by mocking that which I do not understand (the heart and soul of the Internet, once you get past the pr0n), but every so often, there is weirdness that touches my geek soul. The swashbuckler BBQ fork is one [...]

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Evrimeasure

Posted on July 5th, 2008.

Every so often, you stumble on something genuinely useful. Not often, granted, but sometimes, fate smiles, giving you a brief moment of serendipity before hitting you with a truck. In this case, my discovery was the Evrimeasure, a useful gadget which can substitute for a wide range of measuring spoons which have long since become [...]

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The Octodog

Posted on July 4th, 2008.

“I want to feed my child exotic and unique foods like hot dogs, but all he wants is boring, mass-produced ‘kiddie food’ like squid and octopus!” If you’ve made this complaint in the past, the solution is at hand — the Octodog! Convert a boring hot dog into something which can threaten [...]

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