[ad_1] Juul will stop selling mint-flavored vape products in the US. The company says it’s pulling mint pods from its website, as well as no longer taking new orders from retailers. As of this article, the company only sells three flavors: Classic tobacco, Virginia tobacco and menthol. Juul says it made the decision based on […]
Category: food and drink
Barsys Smart Coaster tells you how to pour the perfect cocktail
[ad_1] Barsys wants to make mixing a cocktail as easy as grabbing a beer or pouring a glass of wine. “Most people don’t realize how many great cocktails they can make from just a few simple ingredients. All they’re missing is the know how to put it together,” Barsys Founder and CEO Akshet Tewari said […]
Wirecutter’s best deals: Dell’s U3419W Ultrawide Monitor drops to $722
[ad_1] Chamberlain MyQ Smart Garage-Door Controller Street price: $45; deal price: $30 Back down to $30, this is a nice discount on the Chamberlain MyQ, one of our smart garage-door controller picks. The street price has dropped in recent months with regular pricing now around $45, but this deal still matches the previous best price […]
Lab cultured ‘steaks’ grown on an artificial gelatin scaffold
[ad_1] In the body, cells don’t just sit there in a pile. They get physical support from water, collagen proteins and nutrients, which help the cells grown and align. “To grow muscle tissues that resembled meat, we needed to find a ‘scaffold’ material that was edible and allowed muscle cells to attach and grow in […]
How a Harvard class project changed barbecue
[ad_1] Desora co-founder and CTO, Yinka Ogunbiyi, knows first-hand the challenges of “low-and-slow” barbecue in the dead of winter. Along with CEO, Michel Maalouly, Ogunbiyi spent hours in the cold every weekend attempting to perfect a grill design as part of an engineering course at Harvard in 2015. The goal was to outperform what many […]
Amazon sellers are shipping long-expired food
[ad_1] Amazon has taken down some listings. A spokesperson also told CNBC that vendors have to honor both the law and Amazon policies, including a guarantee that any item has a shelf life of at least 90 days. The company added that it uses a mix of human reviews and AI to study feedback, helping […]
Le Creuset’s Star Wars cookware is available to pre-order
[ad_1] The collection includes BB-8, C-3PO and R2-D2 cocottes ($30 each or $90 for the set) and Death Star and Millennium Falcon trivets ($20 each). Williams Sonoma doesn’t have pre-orders available for the $900 Tattooine Dutch oven, unfortunately, but Le Creuset’s only offering four of those in the US, so it’ll likely sell those directly. […]
You might want a centrifuge to make this cocktail
[ad_1] Even after discovering that my SodaStream would explode if I placed gin lemonade in it, I still felt that this cocktail would hardly be a challenge. I’d made a cake of pickles, for God’s sake. Surely this was child’s play. I felt the same way when I bought a $90 benchtop centrifuge from Amazon […]
The Pakt Coffee Kit is a nearly perfect pour-over solution for travel
[ad_1] I typically brew coffee with a Chemex at home, and even if I’m making a single cup, pour-over is my preferred method. I use the Aeropress from time to time, but it’s not what I reach for every morning. If I really want a taste of home, I needed a compact pour-over solution that […]
Astronauts bioprint beef in space for the first time
[ad_1] It’s far from ready for mass production. However, Aleph’s Yoav Reisler told Space.com that the company planned to build on the experiment and make synthetic beef steaks available on terra firma using large-scale “bio-farms.” This could be particularly helpful for astronauts. Spacecraft crews don’t have the luxury of raising farm animals — meat-eating astronauts […]