Eggs dismayed at own fate

A long time ago I discovered that sous vide hard-boiled eggs are always perfect — but they take a while. In about a quarter the time I can make hard-boiled eggs for peeling and eating in a quarter the time with this method and my Instant Pot. READ THE REST

Alex French Guy Cooking, our favorite French chef and nerd in the kitchen, has been running a series on his YouTube channel on mother sauces, those sauces which are the basis of French cooking. The whole series is fascinating, funny, and educational. In the two above videos, he makes hollandaise sauce and eggs benedict, and… READ THE REST

Lan Guangping is a street performer from China. He has figured out how to jump almost a meter off the ground onto raw eggs without breaking them. Here's a little background on how that's possible: Image: YouTube / CCTV English READ THE REST

Add another piece of bad news to COVID's destructive fallout: it might be further wrecking your eyesight. With so many of us working from home, the time many now spent in front of a screen is on a drastic rise, now reaching up to 13 hours a day or more. All those device screens just… READ THE REST

Sometimes, you run across an item that's so functional and necessary that you've gotta have it. Other times, you find something that's so wonderfully geeky that you've gotta have it. The sweet spot is when you can find something that scratches both of those distinct itches. These Star Trek edition KeySmart Pro Key Organizers with… READ THE REST

With so many different protocols, competing frameworks, and differences of opinion floating around, it's often tough for the text industry to come together and agree on virtually anything. However, time and circumstance can occasionally come together to codify a certain app, tool, or technique as the one true way to get things done. When it… READ THE REST