Awesome Food

The Flavor Bible is a must for cooking and cocktail mixologists with an alphabetical listing of flavors and ingredients; it also includes short essays on regional tastes and from chefs.

Combining two vices into one, Perky Jerky is Beef Jerky with a kick: each piece packs a 150 mg dose of caffeine thanks to Guarana, equivalent to twice the content of a coffee bean.

You’re essentially guaranteed hands and paws off this Mousetrap Cheese Board and Cutter; it looks ready to take off tails and fingers, but it’s really just a stainless steel cheese slicer.

Prepare for the ultimate sugar high: this Five Pound Gummy Bear is equal to 1,400 regular bears and tips the scales at 12,600 calories; available in raspberry, cherry or apple.

Whether you’re surviving zombies, aliens or financial collapse, Tactical Canned Bacon has your back: each includes approx. 54 slices of delicious bacon with a 10+ year shelf life.

If you put more than cars in their garage, the Diamond Plate BBQ is a steel and aluminum cabinet with 4 burners, 6,000 lb of capacity, welded 6″ phenolic casters and optional HDTV.

Light My Fire’s SpiceBox is a modern version of the classic traveler’s spice box; it’s airtight, shockproof and waterproof with three compartments for carrying your favorite spices abroad.

So hot we had to bleep them, The Hottest F***ing Nuts will put “No pain, No gain” to the test at any sports party: it’s packed with salted peanuts, habanero chiles and jalapenos.

These Digital BBQ Tongs do triple duty: first, as a thermometer with backlit LCD display, second as an LED flashlight, and third as a memory aid with 7 preset temps for meats.

Julius Tarng’s Chef’s Tool bag lets up-and-coming culinary masters look the part of students and keep their hands free; it includes a detachable knife compartment and first-aid pouch.

It’s not exactly the kind of exercise couch potatoes need, but this Popcorn Basketball Bowl lets hard core sports junkies get in a game of hoops in between gorging on butter and salt.

After a one-year absence, Chris Cardinal’s Threadcakes is back for 2009 with a new contest; you’ll have until August 3, 2009 to submit a 2D or 3D cake based on a Threadless tee.

Packed with quick-draw pockets for your tong, spatula and even a brewskie, the Grillslinger Sport is a belt for BBQ cowboys that conveniently puts all your tools at waist level.

Adding even more charred mammal flesh to those summer picnics, this Meatball Grill Basket satisfies a need we didn’t know we had, but now do–the drool on our keyboard says it all.

The Beanzawave brings us one buttprint closer to never leaving our cubicles again: it’s a USB-powered microwave that uses finely tuned cellphone radio frequencies to cook food.

V9 of ThinkGeek’s vaunted Mega Caffeine Candy Sampler is a grab bag of pick-me-ups, with names that sound like sound effects: Foosh Mints, Jolt Gum, and Chargers Espresso Beans.

With stomach-turning foods such as BBQ Worm Crisps, Scorpion Vodka and Oven-Baked Tarantula, Edible.com seems anything but; still, it’s the perfect shop for culinary adventurers.

This Pac-Man Sour Set combines two geek loves with pellet- and ghost-shaped sour candies; we particularly like the Pac-Man tin, which dispenses pellets like an 8-bit pharmacist.

We frankly want these PSP Sours simply for the PSP-shaped cool metal tin; they’ll come in blue screen (raspberry) or red screen (cherry) and can be preordered by the dozen for $32.

Essentially an ice cream maker on steroids, the NitroCream N2-G4 is hand-built and capable of making gelato, frozen yogurt and sorbet (in addition to ice cream); it uses liquid nitrogen.

Omaha Steaks is bucking the recession, bull rider style: for $10,000, they’ll fly out a chef and culinary staff to serve up to eight of your guests a five course meal fit for an cattle baron.

Baconnaise’s concept just seems so wrong that we can’t help but love it: it’s mayonnaise that is flavored to taste like bacon; the spread comes from the makers of Bacon Salt.

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