Our latest video for Slate puts us in a competition to create three meals using only products from the Slate vending machines and kitchen, judged by some of Slate's finest journalists. Watch to see how we use highly unorthodox ingredients and techniques to create gazpacho, achieve molecular gastronomy and formulate salad dressing. Also, you'll learn how to filet a Fig Newton.

As first published in Slate Magazine (www.Slate.com).