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Top 25 food hacks

peltier%20beer%20coolerHere are 25 ways we humans show we can't ever be satisfied with the "usual" ways of preparing, cooking and even eating our food. Make it yourself. Do it yourself. Hack it yourself. There's something for everyone here.
  1. How to avoid crying when chopping onions
  2. Make fire with a can of Coke and a chocolate bar
  3. Peltier beer cooler
  4. Lighting a barbeque with liquid oxygen
  5. Open-source beer
  6. OpenCola
  7. Geek your barbecue
  8. Liquid-nitrogen ice cream
  9. How to process sap from trees and make maple syrup
  10. 43Folders hacks for food, food storage, nutrition, coffee, tea, water, recipes and the kitchen.
  11. Making "bad" vodka "good" using a Brita filter
  12. How to make ginger ale and root beer at home
  13. Do-it-yourself Margarita maker
  14. Make your own marshmallows
  15. Chill a bottle of wine in six minutes
  16. Make your own Peeps
  17. Do-it-yourself brick pizza oven
  18. The big red juicer
  19. Beer can chicken
  20. How to cool the burn of chiles
  21. Cookin' with Google
  22. The Cook's Thesaurus
  23. Thorax cake
  24. Gastronomy for geeks
  25. Aluminum can backpacking stove