Awesome Food

Amping up their popular Double Down, KFC Korea has outed this special edition Double Down that sandwiches a hamburger patty, bacon and cheese between two chicken patty “buns.” No word on if we’ll see this heartstopper stateside.

In this documentary to promote cooking community ChefSteps, culinary artists built a massive cooking wall from 30 steel drums to roast whole pigs. The project didn’t exactly go smoothly, but the end result was impressive.

A demonstration of how ultra-realistic food samples are made for display in Japanese restaurants. These fake pieces are handmade using plastic and wax, and look good enough to eat. But don’t. That cabbage sample is insane.

(NSFW: Language) GQ’s series Most Expensivest S**t sees rapper 2 Chainz check out luxury items, such as a $295 burger, a $30,000 pair of headphones and a $2 million rust bucket, and evaluates how many chainz they’re worth.

Prep Pad is a weighing scale that, together with an iPad app, tells you the nutritional values of food that you put on it. You can create or get advice on nutritional goals, save combinations of food and more. Works with iPad 3 and up.

MAD is a Danish not-for-profit organization for restaurateurs. For its 2014 symposium MAD chose the theme, “What is Cooking?” This was the opening talk from Sobatei Rakuichi owners Tatsuru Rai and his wife Midori .

We all kind of know what a sandwich is, but trying to define it formally is like trying to explain what a human being looks like. The Atlantic steps up to the plate and suggests a way to check for a food’s sandwichness.

Michelle Sugar Art worked through the night to create the world’s first cake billboard. Made for Mr. Kipling, the billboard measured 20′ x 10′ and contained 13,360 cakes, many of which were eaten by passersby. More here.

Chef Naomichi Yasuda, owner of Sushi Bar Yasuda, teaches the basics of eating the world famous Japanese food. You can skip to 6:02 for the summary, but then you’d miss the chance to see a master at work.

We’ve seen liquor-infused chocolates and marshmallows. Turns out you can also get a buzz from ice cream. BuzzBar make ice cream bars laden with whiskey, rum, cognac, Irish cream liquor or lemon vodka.

Mantry sends you tasty edibles every month. Unlike other subcription services like LootCrate and Bespoke Post, the cost of the items are probably less than the fee, but Mantry is counting on reeling gourmands in with quality and novelty.

A smart cooking app for iOS. SideChef’s step-by-step recipes are augmented by high quality images and timers for time-sensitive steps. It can also read instructions out loud and respond to voice commands. Android version coming soon.

…aka the best pizza ad of all time. YouTuber haberdashery12 put a GoPro to the pair of tongs that he uses to remove pizzas and other pies where he works. Pizza chains are going to see a spike in orders in the next couple of weeks.

Nathan Shields made a neat little device he calls the Pangraph which he uses to pour pancake batter from a bottle directly to the griddle in spirograph patterns. With it he’s able to produce some awesome looking breakfast treats.

A plate with a cup holder at the bottom. It has two rails that locks most 16oz, 18oz and 20oz disposable cups in place. KuploK is reusable and is made from BPA-free recyclable plastic.

It seems like a simple concept, but its apparently quite tricky to create 1:1 scale edible playthings the way that designer Akihiro Mizuuchi did. We’re guessing that they’d be pretty tricky to build with unless you live in a refrigerator.

If you’re lazy, lack career ambition and scare off the ladies with ease, here’s an amusing parody for you: No Choice microwave meals – TV dinners that punish you for being the slob you are. We think we’d enjoy the shrimpless alfredo.

An iOS app that lets you quickly order pizza. It stores your credit card information and delivery address to make successive orders much easier to place. Also, Hipster Billy Mays cameo alert! He’s like the Nic Cage of online commercials.

(NSFW: Language) Bronsolino travels to England to sample the Barry Bonds of pork buns, the Michael Jackson of lamb grilling, the white trash bruschetta and Nigerian home cooking. Then he makes chicken wings and coleslaw.

When Dan Collins heard that Walmart’s ice cream sandwiches don’t melt even in direct sunlight, he put the suspect snack to the test. Myth confirmed. Heat resistance level: McDonald’s. NASA, you seeing this?

Lay’s turned to its fans to crowdsource a new potato chip flavor. We’ve tasted the four finalists: Bacon Mac & Cheese, Mango Salsa, Wasabi Ginger, and the surprisingly delicious Cappuccino. Sadly, the mango salsa tastes like bath gel.

Munchies’ new series Fuel looks at the food that athletes eat. For its first episode, they enlisted the help of former Sumo World champion Byamba Ulambayar to talk about Chankonabe, a high protein Japanese stew.

Invented by Harvard student John McCallum, Spray Cake is a cake batter mixture that comes in a spray can. You can even microwave the batter to turn it into a cake in as little as 30 seconds. More at The Boston Globe.