Food

Using the power of the sun, the SolSource can grill, boil, steam, fry and bake food as fast as or even faster than conventional stoves and grills. Under maximum sunlight, its highly reflective plastic panels can heat food up to 1,000ºC.

This is Sparkfun’s Semi-Horned Oblong Versatile Eating Ladle, or the SHOVEL. It has a spork, a serrated knife, a bottle cap opener and 6ft. of red paracord in its titanium body. It’s also open source. Skip to 1:28 in the video.

The Kitchen Safe will help you fight your cravings and curtail your bad habits. Store food, gadgets, cigarettes and more then keep the lid locked for up to 10 days. The clear container is rubbing it in though. It’s like it’s mocking you.

There’s a great debate at the TA offices as to whether one would rather drink Girl Scout cookies everyday with this new Coffeemate product or simply eat them. We place this deliberation in your hands, beloved readers.

Twice The Vice are booze-infused chocolates. They come in packs with different themes, including ones that have whiskey-filled chocolates, ones with scotch, tequila and bourbon as well as sweet chick drinks.

Universal Orlando recently opened real world equivalents of the restaurants and shops in the cartoon, such as Krusty Burger, Kwik-E-Mart and Moe’s Tavern. We hope someone prank calls Moe’s every day. More here.

Dunkin Donuts gives us one more reason to stop at their drive-thru after going out on a bender, with this fried egg and bacon sandwich, stuffed inside glazed donut. Surprisingly, it has only 360 calories, thanks to its lack of cheese.

There’s nothing quite like foods that make you sweat. With the help of this manual, you’ll be creating homemade versions of popular hot sauces and salsas, as well as cooking meals with about 50 recipes you can make with them.

We always thought that baguettes were made for sandwiches, but we’ve underestimated the power of the skinny French loaves. Prepare to be schooled by Baguette-Me-Nots. And this, friends, is why Yahoo! bought Tumblr.

The Perennial Plate visited with a family in Sri Lanka to learn of the numerous uses for the mighty and versatile coconut tree, which provides food, hydration, shelter, rope, oils – and even booze.

With Summer fast approaching, you might be thinking about grilling up some corn. But leave it to our pals at Foodbeast to point out another food we’ve been doing wrong all of these years. We think we’d miss the charred kernels though.

Three lucky readers will each win two boxes of awesome stuff, Cue – the perfect BBQ companion, and Shave – for keeping your facial hair in check. Both from Bespoke Post’s men’s “lifestyle upgrade” service. (Ends 5/28/13)

New York pastry chef Dominique Ansel has invented this epic new breakfast treat which combines the flakiness of a croissant with the sugary toppings, fillings and shape of a donut. One bakers dozen now, please!

It’s always nice to have a business card that stands out from the crowd, but we’re giving extra points for creativity to this Brazilian cheese shop for having their cards made up as tiny, functional cheese graters.

“I think the slogan of Katz’s should be, ‘There Has to Be a Better Way.’” David Manheim wants to become a talk show host. But he’s just a waiter, albeit at New York’s famous Katz’s Deli. So he combined his dream with his nightmare.

The square body of the Scion xB is a bit of an acquired taste, but there’s no question about its flexibility. The guys from LA’s Seoul Sausage Co. have had theirs converted into a mobile grill truck. Oh, and their sausages rock too.

Does simply folding food in half make it a taco? If you’re Taco Bell, it does. And besides, the idea of a waffle with sausage, egg and maple syrup sounds good to us. Currently only in test markets, but you can always make your own.

A tribute to both Brooklyn and bagels, this 16mm film was shot back in 1979 and is both a cool bit of nostalgia and good for a chuckle as we listen to its passionate narrator. What else is there in life? Hot bagels that taste beautifully!

After Foodbeast schooled us on how to devour a cupcake, they’re back to make us unlearn the way we’ve been chomping on apples all our lives. Apparently, if you eat ‘em top-to-bottom, you do away with all of those wasted cores.