Food & Drink

Cooking For Engineers is an interesting shift from the standard recipe site, providing photos to illustrate each major step, and tables to provide a compact format of the recipe (for those who wish to skip the verbose descriptions). Some recipes, like the Lasagna, include additional information like a layer diagram.

Much like Alton Brown, a healthy dose of science and the ‘why’ behind cooking is included within each entry. For example, one post includes a helpful table that breaks down the smoke point of various fats, another explains the USDA beef grading system (Prime, Choice, Select).

It would be nice if his site were categorized, like Red Velvet Cafe, and other sites are, but the search engine helps to make up for it.

Apparently health officials in the U.K. are a wee bit worried about a new food served up by a chip shop in Glasgow. “This type of thing leads to poor health,” said Michael Lean of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. “It doesn’t take a lot of common sense to see that it is a stupid thing to be producing.”According to the UPI story New kebab dubbed most dangerous U.K. food , “‘The Stonner’, a 1,000-calorie, deep fried pork sausage kebab has been dubbed the most dangerous fast food in Britain.” With 46 grams of fat, how could it go wrong?

Apparently, the Ruby Chip Shop will “only supply one Stonner supper per customer per week”. Hell, if the dish was available here in the U.S., we’d have the opportunity to Super Size it.

Link via Boing Boing