Traditional kimchi gets its flavor from fermenting for days, preferably buried in a pot in the yard, but if you need some of the pungent, spicy cabbage right now , ChefSteps has a way to make it in mere hours. Read more…
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Cheat Your Way to Kimchi in Two Hours
An anonymous reader writes: In response to the rising minimum wage, the fast-food chain Wendy’s plans to start automating all of its restaurants. The company said it will have self-service ordering kiosks available to its 6, 000-plus restaurants in the second half of the year. Wendy’s President Todd Penegor said it will be up to franchisees to decide whether or not to adopt the kiosks in their stores, noting that many franchise locations have had to raise prices to offset wage increases. California’s decision to gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2022 will impact Wendy’s 258 restaurants, all of which are franchise-operated. About 75% of 200-plus Wendy’s restaurants are run by franchisees in New York, a state that is also on its way to $15. Penegor said, wage pressures have been manageable both because of falling commodity prices and better operating leverage due to an increase in customer counts. The company is still “working so hard to find efficiencies” so it can deliver “a new QSR experience but at traditional QSR prices.” The CEO of Carl’s Jr., Andy Puzder, is also looking into replacing many of its workers with machines to save money. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Wendy’s Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks
The world’s oldest axe—dating back at least 46, 000 years—has been uncovered in Australia. And, already, there’s a mystery surrounding it. Read more…
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This Mysterious 46,000 Year Old Object Is the World’s Oldest Axe
Quaker Oats is being sued over the big “100% Natural” label on the front of its box. What else is in that big bucket o’ oats that makes the label a lie? Nothing, say the plantiffs—it is, indeed, just oats. Their complaint is that the oats were grown using pesticides. That, they claim, should be sufficient to keep the natural label off it. Read more…
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Quaker Oats Is Being Sued Because People Still Don’t Know What ‘Natural’ Means
An anonymous reader writes: For the first time data may show that a human being has been successfully rejuvenated by gene therapy, claims Bioviva USA. “In September 2015, then 44 year-old CEO of Bioviva USA Inc. Elizabeth Parrish received two of her own company’s experimental gene therapies: one to protect against loss of muscle mass with age, another to battle stem cell depletion responsible for diverse age-related diseases and infirmities.” Bypassing America’s FDA, the controversial therapies were described by the MIT Technology Review as “do-it-yourself medicine, ” saying it “raises ethical questions about how quickly such treatments should be tested in people and whether they ought to be developed outside the scrutiny of regulators.” “The treatment was originally intended to demonstrate the safety of the latest generation of the therapies, ” reports Bioviva’s web site. “But if early data is accurate, it is already the world’s first successful example of telomere lengthening via gene therapy in a human individual.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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First Successful Gene Therapy Against Human Aging?
Food labels are notoriously confusing—but what if they simply told you how long it might take to burn off the calories you’re about to consume? Read more…
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New Food Labels Would Tell You How Long It Takes to Burn Off Calories
Modding a Game Boy to add a retro game console is nothing new . However, one modder took it to the next level with a working cartridge and removable battery pack. Read more…
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Add a Working Cartridge to Your Raspberry Pi Powered Game Boy Console
Whisky. Wine. Vodka. Coffee. Olives. Sugar. Milk. Parmesan. Salmon. The list of counterfeit foods and drinks to be wary of is long—and growing. Read more…
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The Largest Food Sting Ever Snagged a Boatload of Fake Booze
Do you know where chocolate comes from? Apparently, not from the checkout line at grocery stores! How to Make Everything shows how to make chocolate from scratch, from the fruit of the cacao tree to the fermentation to the sun drying process to making sugar and cocoa butter to the grinding and tempering and molding of the chocolate bar. There are so many steps, it’s a wonder how we ever figured it out. Read more…
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How to Make Chocolate from the Fruit to the Candy Bar
Wasabi, strawberry cheesecake, green tea, dark chocolate, sweet potato. What do these flavors have in common? They’re all KitKat varieties exclusive to Japan. but how did the crispy, break-associated candy get so popular overseas? Read more…
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Why All the Best Kit Kat Flavors Are Only in Japan