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Scientists use yeast from body of "tzi the Iceman to make "very very good" sourdough
1+ hour, 21+ min ago (370+ words) Yeast survived for millenia inside a mummy, and can still be used to make bread. About 5300 years ago, a Tyrolean man died after being shot in the shoulder with an arrow. His body was so well-preserved in the Alpine ice…...
"Tiny Grandma" cooks with "a lot of heart and a side of kimchi"
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (314+ words) And here's Tiny Grandma making a'Korean breakfast sandwich,'Totoro onigiri, and'cucumber kimchi. The food looks amazingly delicious, and it's all super cute, too! Tiny Grandma doesn't just cook all the time, though. She also relaxes and spends time with her…...
Incels found a new hobby, and the results are as unsettling as you'd imagine
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (18+ words) Kitchencels is a forum documenting the culinary culture of the incel community. Spoiler alert: it's pretty uniformly horrific....
15 honey-drizzled bananas appear on a plate every month on a street corner
3+ week, 20+ hour ago (373+ words) The case is documented in a Wikipedia entry called Beeston bananas, a small monument to one town's patient weirdness. The plate sits there in the same condition every month: peeled, whole, untouched by squirrels or foxes or magpies, which is…...
A burr grinder beats a $2, 000 espresso machine
3+ week, 2+ day ago (263+ words) Software engineer Rupaj Soni spent months chasing inconsistent espresso shots from his Breville Bambino before a visit to a friend in Amsterdam cracked the problem. His friend had the same machine and the same beans, but his shots were predictable…...
Tilly the Friendly Loaf will make you smile, I promise!
3+ week, 6+ day ago (307+ words) If you need a break from doom-scrolling, take a few minutes of your day to enjoy some videos featuring my new favorite internet doggo, a cute Tibetan Spaniel named Tilly who goes by the nickname "the friendly loaf." On Tilly's…...
How To Basic goes vegan with extremely cursed burger recipe
4+ week, 2+ day ago (265+ words) Rent must be due at the Basic estate, however, because he's finally branched out, presumably in an attempt to rope a wider unsuspecting audience into the culinary chaos he unleashes. To make his special vegan burger, all you need is…...
This daily perpetual stew vlog feels like what the Internet was made for
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (336+ words) If you're at all familiar with culinary history, you've likely heard of the medieval practice of "perpetual stew", wherein taverns or common houses would keep a pot of stew on the fire, well, perpetually. As guests ate the stew, fresh…...