Ken's blog

the science fiction of the burrito tunnel contains the one big lie of the tunnel existing, and several smaller lies which are satirically f...

honey famously supposedly has extremely long shelf life.  package or repackage honey into very sturdy containers for long-term storage.  wha...

the common type of ice cream sandwich can be completely thawed then refrozen with little or no degradation of texture or flavor.  what is go...

typical sci-fi universe: humans dominate.  (explanation behind the scenes: because prosthetics to make actors into aliens is expensive and t...

Twitter user Phosphatide popularized the cube rule of food identification. the cube rule identifies food with starch forming a tube around...

replace the cornbread around a corn dog with a different quick bread.  surely this has been done already, perhaps by people who don't li...

what would it be like to cook with a microwave oven much more powerful than a normal consumer device? using an electric stove power outlet...

Pasta is starchy so presents an opportunity to induce the tasty Maillard reaction.  What dishes do this? Traditional pasta with sauce does...

There are many types of mushrooms.  Only one type gets commonly used on pizza.  Try others.

Dissolve monosodium glutamate (MSG) (Ajinomoto) powder and table salt into water.  What amounts of each substance should be used to mimic th...

If Worcester is pronounced Wuster (similarly Gloucester, Leicester), Manchester ought to be pronounced Muenster like the cheese. Start an ur...

When drinking wine out of an empty Pringles can , which wines go well with which Pringles flavors?

Mix some banana pieces into ice cream.  (Or cheat further and just mix banana flavor into ice cream.) The traditional banana split has an ...