Beer can chicken making gadgets come in all shapes and sizes, but rarely do they double as anything else. Which is usually fine: the idea is to add a flavoring liquid of your choice (that’s right — gasp — it doesn’t have to be beer) and let it bubble up and permeate the meat while it is cooking. Results are tender, delicious and juicy.
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Food-inspired jewelry will never go out of style (as long as we keep eating, that is). However, it’s usually not the lowest rung on the food chain that gets the gold. Usually. In this case, it does get the gold. Literally. The un-fanciest of crackers, the lowly saltine, has now become elevated in status with the Golden Saltine Necklace. The 14 karat gold-plated brass cracker, handmade in New York by Emily Elizabeth Jewelry is stylish, unexpected and fun. I wonder if there is a real saltine under all that gold?
Click on the link and also check out two other food-related items, a turkey wishbone, and a gold-plated fortune cookie. Yes, that’s right: a gold-plated fortune cookie.
Some grill accessories create inspiration simply by existing. Burgers and hotdogs may dominate the grilling landscape, but the proliferation of specialized grill racks means that those old standbys are going to have to give up some space on the grill. We’ve seen the Chile Pepper Grill Rack, we’ve seen the Chicken Rack, and now we have the Fruit Grill Rack to add to the arsenal.
Priced at only twelve bucks, the stainless-steel contraption provides an inexpensive way to secure round fruits and vegetables on the grill. Perfect for apples, peaches, pears or even tomatoes, the no-nonsense design eliminates the balancing act normally required when jostling round food about on the grill. Safely secured in one location there may even be enough room left over for the occasional hamburger and hotdog.
I never thought hot water and penguins mixed particularly well, but — at least when it comes to brewing tea — this particular penguin takes to it like a duck to water. Place a cup of hot water under the beak, attach either the included tea strainer or your favorite bagged tea, and set the timer. The bag lowers into the hot water, and automatically rises when the time is up.
Able to be set for up to twenty minutes, the Penguin Tea Timer
***UPDATE: Flown the coop (do penguins have coops?!?) or left the nest (do penguins have nests?!?) — in any event, this product is no longer available.
There is just something about grill accessories that quite often makes them look like medieval torture devices. The Mr. Bar B Q EZ Legs & Wings Rack is no exception. The commercial-grade stainless-steel rack is designed to hang chicken legs and wings over an open fire. If that doesn’t scream medieval, I don’t know what does. One thing for sure though, is that it won’t be torture finishing off that chicken.
Product Features
— Grill or oven-bake chicken legs and wings without turning, burning or sticking
— Rack hangs up to 13 chicken legs and wings above the grate on a grill or elevated above a pan in the oven
— Legs and wings secure into the circles and slots
— Poultry is cooked uniformly on all sides
— Remove all pieces at the same time
The serving size we see on everyday food products is rarely never an actual serving size. Five crackers is hardly a serving size. (Maybe if stacked high and layered with peanut butter.) Of course, the reason food companies do this is to make it seem like we are eating less calories, but we all know they’re not fooling anybody. When it comes to actually trying to keep track of what we are consuming, those familiar little Nutrition Facts labels are of little help.
