Phew! Finally Friday and time to get a proper meal…

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Tags: art, TGIF, what is it?

Give the gift of steak (paper)!

Gift Couture Steak Wrapping Paper is a project currently funded on Kickstarter. This isn’t the company’s first time at the butcher (paper) shop either. Previously, Sarah Fay and Justin Colt, the brain trust behind the idea, has given the world…

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Tags: Cheap Gifts

Phew, TGIF! Time to tie one on!
Sorry.

Get it:
Wine Tasting Hands Free Vintage Neck Tie Necktie Wineglass Holder Lanyard (Item #23907)

Tags: apparel, bad puns, Cheap Gifts, TGIF, wine

Behold the Jupiter Structural Layer Cake from Cakecrumbs! The spherical cake was constructed using two hemispheres complete with delicious representations of rock, ice and liquid metallic hydrogen that are thought to inhabit the planet’s core.

In cake speak, this translates to a core made of mudcake, surrounded by almond butter cake, surrounded by a tinted vanilla Madeira sponge. There’s a crumb coat of vanilla buttercream underneath the fondant.

Mmm, The Great Red Spot never tasted so goo.

(Via Boing Boing)

Tags: cake, geometry, science

Oh those wacky minds over at ThinkGeek. The good news: the Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise Spatula is less than 25 bucks. The bad news: it’s not available yet. The better news? They made a video to promote it. Check it out in all its Star Trekesque glory after the jump and “get ready to beam up that food from a hot pan to a hungry tummy.”

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Tags: Cheap Gifts, fun, spatula, Star Trek, ThinkGeek

How cheese gets from the cow to the plate is a journey that many may be interested in. Not surprisingly, to get there involves a lot of things that start with the letter ‘c.’ That would include: cheese wax, cheese shaping mold, cheese cultures, cheesecloth, cheese salt, and a cheese brush.

And that doesn’t even take into account all the things that don’t start with ‘cheese!’ For example, where would someone get the other necessary ingredients and tools? Well, if after all that one still needs: rennet, calcium chloride, coloring, thermometer and a wax melting pot, they most certainly did not pick up the Complete Artisan Cheese Making Kit from Grow and Make.

Everything listed above is included in the DIY cheese-making kit. That is, everything but the cow and the milk.

Product Description:
A complete cheese making kit for the culinary artisan (does not include milk). Includes ingredients and instructions for making gouda, colby, monterey jack, mozzarella and ricotta cheese. Includes cheese wax, cheese shaping mold, rennet, cheese cultures, cheesecloth, cheese salt, calcium chloride, cheese brush & coloring, thermometer, wax melting pot

Tags: Better Gifts, cheese, DIY