Dan and Mark explore ideal chocolate chip cookie size, grip, chip structure, dunking and even grilling cookies. Dan tells the story of a long-running cookie mystery that ends in about eight visits to a bakery in two days, delicious chocolate chip cookies, and a stomach ache. Photo: Flickr CC / jarrodlombardo
I joined Dan from Germany during Oktoberfest for our latest appearance on Madeleine Brand's show, talking beer and sausage. As I say often, there's a lot more to German food and drink culture than these two things. And there's a lot more to Germany than Munich, the theme of my recent Slate article on great beers beyond Oktoberfest. But sausage,
Lynn Chen in Los Angeles sends along this photo, which she describes as "lunch on a really hot day in LA -- two scoops of cookie dough ice cream and a caramel apple lollipop." I wonder if she dipped the lollipop in the ice cream, or used the lollipop as an ice cream spoon. Seems like a no brainer! /dan
One-sided came up in our recent BLT episode as a possible toasting technique especially suited for BLT deployment. One sided toast can be made using a broiler, a tool I used before I had a toaster. (Yes, I'm aware it's a phenomenally wasteful way to toast bread, but hey, I needed toast here and there.) Adam in Boston, who was
Photo: Flickr CC / jeffreyww
Part of our vision for The Sporkful has always been to create a clearinghouse for innovations in the field of eating. Some day we hope to bring all this collective knowledge together to found Sporkful University, motto: Ruminate, Masticate, Promulgate. With these lofty aspirations, you can imagine that it's especially fulfilling when we get emails like the one we received recently
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2qxhWmdIrs?wmode=transparent Our next episode is on BLTs. We examine the ingredients and construction and explain which ingredient is most like Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects. Sculptor Claes Oldenburg comes up too. That's his work "Giant BLT" in the video here. Interestingly, the sculpture comes in several parts, so whenever it's installed for display, the curator must make a BLT sandwich,