Recipes
Absurdly optimized cinnamon rolls
A cinnamon roll is two problems wrapped into one delicious spiral: a crumb that has to stay soft overnight and a filling that wants to melt and run out the side. We solved both from the food science, settled the family argument over yeast versus baking powder, and built a calculator that sizes the whole batch to your pan.
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Outdoors
The wind eats first
Camp stoves are sold by BTU, a number that explains about a quarter of how long you will actually wait for coffee. The rest is windscreen geometry and valve travel. Here is the data, the manual forensics, and the stove they point to.
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Your ceiling fan is a waste of electricity
Window fans and room circulators solve fundamentally different problems. We tested airflow, noise, motor type, bearing longevity, and cleaning access across 16 fans to find the best of each.
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Buying weight without buying heat
Warmth is thickness and weight is mass, so they can be bought separately. A hot plate, a climate chamber in Wuxi, and thirty-one bed coverings sorted by grams carried per tog.
