My birthday present

March 9, 2010 – 3:32 am | by admin

I’ve been trying to figure out what I would really like for my birthday and I reckon I’ve come up with the perfect gift for myself, apparently every chef should have one – it’s an infrared spectrometer nuclear magnetic resonance machine. I’ve always liked gadgets but my ice cream machine, pasta maker, apple shaver, turbo blender, tortilla press, home smoker, vacuum machine and in fact all the entire cacaphony of essential gadgets which clutter up my kitchen at home all pale into insignificance before this mighty beast. How could I have lived without it for so long ? Obvious questions spring to mind of course, should I go for the Beckman Model G or the Varian A-60 and where would I be likely to find one ? I certainly hadn’t come across any on my last trip to Makro and even if I had where would I get the 20 ton low loader to transport it ? No, it seems however much I deserve one it’s just not going to happen and I must console myself that I’m never going to be on the leading edge of culinary development, to boldly grill where no man’s grilled before ! So what does this incredible machine …

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So what exactly is Hawaiian butterfish?

November 30, 2009 – 3:17 pm | by admin

Have you heard the one about the marine biologist who walks into a sushi bar and orders some tuna? It’s no joke because he ends up with a fish called escolar, sometimes sold as butterfish, a particularly nasty fish with buttery flesh that can cause bizarre episodes of diarrhoea, accompanied by a waxy intestinal discharge. Well these things happen don’t they, especially in places like the USA ? The sad thing is that it happened 5 times to the same scientists during a brief research project and this in a country that is fairly well regulated in terms of food requirements. Now I’m not too bothered (he said smugly) because I’ve had enough of bloody sushi, in fact I think I’ll go back to eating prawn cocktails garnished with a sprig of parsley because where we live no-one knows how to spell food regulations never mind enforce them and repeated TV exposes simply reinforce the fact that many local producers have no scruples about putting whatever they feel like onto the market. You less enlightened mortals out there however should be very wary because many local suppliers understanding of product knowledge merely means that they…

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Gummy Worm Chromosomes

October 24, 2009 – 12:00 pm | by admin

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[ Original art: Kevin Van Aelt ] Have you ever looked at gummy worms and thought, wow those sure resemble DNA coils? Well, artist Kevin Van Aelt did and made this chromosome chart out of the candy slugs. Check out his portfolio here. Related Photo of the Day: Jellybean Children How to Make Candy Corn Collection of Stuck Tic Tacs

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