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Odd Cooking

"Oh no! Miss Cellania has completely run out of ideas, if she's down to posting recipes!"

Naw, this is still different. Lately, I've had a lot of fun teaching the kids how to perfectly roast a marshmallow over a bonfire and in the fireplace. We also are trying crystal rock candy, which is a hit-or-miss thing so far. They think that's adventuresome cooking, but they ain't seen nothin yet!

What happens when a bunch of geeks, mechanics, and slackers get hungry? I mean, besides calling Mom. If you don�t have a kitchen, you have to use your imagination, or whatever is lying around. There are some pretty resourceful folks out there!


Poached Salmon in a dishwasher.

Cooking chicken with a volcano.

Recipe for chili using a blowtorch.

Grilled cheese sandwich made with a steam iron.

Prison wine made in a toilet.

Beer in a coffeemaker.

Almost anything made by solar cooker.

How to cook an egg with a cellphone. Since I first published this, I found out it's an urban legend. Don't try it!

Cooking with a car engine is rather well known, thanks to the book Manifold Destiny, but I found an extra recipe thats about as odd as it gets, Manifold Stew.

A chemists recipe for chocolate chip cookies, with a critique from another chemist following. This is funny, IF you can follow it!

Here's a gallery of food that looks like other things.

This one's for the kids: How to make your own marshmallows.

For geeks who can't spare the time to even GO to the kitchen, here's an EZ Bake oven that plugs into your computer.

Recipes of the future, courtesy of the Electric Museum.

This is a great site for anyone who has read this far, Cooking for Engineers.

Recipes that make you afraid to go back in the kitchen.

This link will either scare you off microwaves, or arouse your curiosity. Remember, curiosity killed the cat. Unwise Microwave Oven Experiments.

Top Ten Signs You're at a Bad Barbecue
10. Everything on the grill has a long, thin tail.
9. To avoid burning, chicken breasts are covered in Coppertone.
8. The "cole slaw" is just mayonnaise and lawn trimmings.
7. The three-legged race is won by a three-legged guy.
6. Every couple minutes, the cook drops his pants and flips
himself with the spatula.
5. Host tells you the burgers are 20% beef and 80% critter.
4. The steaks have been sitting in marinade sauce all night,
and so has your Uncle Earl.
3. You have to sign a legal waiver before you eat the potato salad.
2. Things seem tense between your hosts, Frank and Kathie Lee.
1. The guests all have grill marks on their foreheads.

This may seem a little off-topic, but it wouldn't fit anywhere else. These recipes use normal cooking methods, but they might come in handy when you have something really strange to cook, like an alligator or armadillo or kangaroo.

 

Previously at Miss Cellania: Barbecue, Cooking, Cooking Food, Geek Cooking, and Recipes. Also see the Food category.

Thought for today: The worst thing about accidents in the kitchen is having to eat them.

This post was originally published on November 3rd, 2005. Then I posted it again on April 7th, 2006 saying (at the time) "I said I would post reruns on Fridays until I get a date. OK, now I have a date planned. But I have not yet GONE on a date, so there is a possibility that this won't come off. Just bear with me til then. OK?" Now in 2008, I can reveal that the date was fun, nothing lasting came of it, and now I've been dateless for a year and a half. I'm only posting reruns now because I'm busy blogging for money and my inspiration is running low.

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Posted on Thursday, 05.08.08 @ 12:03AM by Registered CommenterMiss Cellania in | Comments15 Comments

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hey, you're the first *real* person to comment on this blog (apart from people I know obviously =)) - I see you write about cooking too. You should try cooking those gnocchi though, I sure will. E will have to eat all the experiments too =). Have a nice day, I'll keep an eye on your blog. Hiya
11.03.05 @ 09:53AM | Unregistered Commenterkyllyan
I like your thought for the day ... We should ask FTS about that one. I understand he has a lot of experience in that field!
04.07.06 @ 10:14AM | Unregistered CommenterPenny
Aw, hell, MissC, if you wanted a date, all you had to do was ask...
04.07.06 @ 12:03PM | Unregistered CommenterCarl
Prison wine made in a toilet? I don't think I need to know that.
04.07.06 @ 12:11PM | Unregistered CommenterJean-Luc Picard
This is hilarious. Great job on the "top ten" list. For a date: go to www.greatboyfriends.com. Women recommend men on the site - some you can write. Men can be bounced from the site if they misbehave...Met my boyfriend that way :)
04.07.06 @ 12:50PM | Unregistered CommenterMamacita
I am seriously going to try the poached salmon. But I'm going to put it in tinfoil AND a freezer baggie, just to be safe. Remember that scene in Benny & Joon (the movie) where he's making toasted cheese sandwiches with an iron?
04.07.06 @ 03:22PM | Unregistered CommenterSaur Kraut
This is new to me since I've only been reading you for a short time. I wouldn't mind anyway, you find the funnest stuff. Good luck on getting the date :-)
04.07.06 @ 04:45PM | Unregistered CommenterKaren
Penny, I remember eating a lot of my accidents, but its been a long time... I DID learn from them!

Carl, last time I checked, you are in Brooklyn.

Captain, I could barely stand to read it myself for research!

Mamacita, thanks for the link, I will probably use it. I mean, in a post!

Saur, good luck! Yeah, I think Benny and Joon was the inspiration for that site.

Karen, thanks!
04.07.06 @ 07:47PM | Unregistered CommenterMiss Cellania
I am definitely going to try to hard boil or soft boil an egg with cell phones. I'll let you know how it worked.
04.07.06 @ 08:48PM | Unregistered CommenterHale McKay
Re Manifold cooking;
They left out the bit about substituting squirrels with whatever other roadkill was available, the cooking time went from 40 minutes in the revue, to 4/5 hours in the recipe, (you can see I studied this one closely.)
I've been to that barbecue too!!!!!!!!!!
04.07.06 @ 09:50PM | Unregistered CommenterPeter
the thing about the phone is bullpoppy, i tried it and you know what it did... a whole lot of nuthin.
04.07.06 @ 11:56PM | Unregistered Commenterel
Hale, Peter, El, I never imagined as many as three people would take these recipes seriously. Try a stove!
04.08.06 @ 03:03AM | Unregistered CommenterMiss Cellania
Carl, last time I checked, you are in Brooklyn.

Queens. For some reason Verizon refuses to recognize us.

Move. I'm worth it! :-D
04.09.06 @ 04:42PM | Unregistered CommenterCarl
You can make more fun custom sign images on http://www.customsigngenerator.com ;)
04.26.06 @ 05:15AM | Unregistered CommenterWHAK'd
With my record of kitchen faux pas, the last thing I need to do is attach an easy-bake oven to my computer, and set IT on fire, too ;-)
05.08.08 @ 05:12AM | Unregistered CommenterCulinaryBarbarianFeathers

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