Geek your cook on
Posted on 16. Oct, 2009 by Nick the Geek in All, Geek
Hey, if I’m going to be talking about all things geek then I need to make a few things clear right up front. Geek culture is vast. I am generally a techno-geek but I’m also a language geek, a comic geek, a film geek, and several other categories of geek. Generally you can be a geek in almost every niche of culture by fully investing in that niche. However, for the purpose of this blog I will be using a more mainstream version of the term, so geekiness is measured by the technology invested or referenced as well as the potential for science. Science Fiction would fit in this category as well even if there is no basis in real science because I am not so concerned about real science, just potential for science. Now that we are all on the same page, how does a geek cook? There are the old standby geek meals, which include pizza (frozen or delivered), microwave burritos, ramen noodles, and energy drinks, but many geeks want more. I, for one, believe that geek food can be good food. To that end I am gracious for Good Eats with Alton Brown. He brings geek chique to the Food Network. You can tell the difference between standard cooking and geek cooking because of the science and the tools used. In most episodes processes are described in science terms as well as anthropology and other useless information for actually making the meal. Useless to any non-geek but for the geek elite it is as precious as the food that nourishes us. Beyond that the tools used are impressive and diverse. It is nice enough that there are plenty of standard tools, but the geek code holds that if you can make something better to do a job then don’t buy something to do the job. Alton often builds pretty amazing devices to do his cooking and also finds ways to incorporate power tools, which is a win. Of course, geek cooking doesn’t end with a single show. There are a multitude of gadgets out there for the geek in us all. There are fridges with tvs in the door and amazing new technology like the anti-griddle. These might be a bit out of the budget for your average geek, but that doesn’t mean we have to go without. The nice thing about being a geek is the sheer volume of useful but no longer used gadgetry in the world. For example, I have a dead laptop with a perfectly good LCD screen. A little bit of dremel work, soldering, and hacking can result in a refrigerator with a TV in the door. If I have a serious need for an anti-griddle I could rig of something pretty quickly with an aluminum plate, and a modified window air conditioner. Geek cooking is about the technology but also about making things happen and that is why I’m proud to be a geek. I’m feeling inspired to turn my fridge into a tv right now, I wonder if my wife will let me?
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Peter_P
Oct 16th, 2009
lol I have a love-hate relationship with Intense Debate. I kind of love it but I'm fairly sure it hates me!
joanna
Oct 16th, 2009
I quite like it. The email notifications save me the effort of checking to see if someone has replied to me Now i've just gotta work out how to make it work on my few blogs
Nick the Geek
Oct 16th, 2009
I like that I can now reply inline to everyone instead of listing them all out. I also like some of their add ons like the top blog posts and top commenters
Nick the Geek
Oct 16th, 2009
It was really easy to setup for blogger. I'm not sure about other blog types though.
joanna
Oct 16th, 2009
Cool. I'm using blogger so hopefully it will all work. I'll have another look when my brain is less fried from writing sociology and international relations essays
Nick the Geek
Oct 16th, 2009
From Intense Debate click "add to blog" and then there is an option to add to blogger or word pad. There are 2 options for blogger, a widget or a template. The template is easier than they make it sound. Click template and then click to open your control panel in the frame. You will then go to edit the html on your template and save that file. There is a place to upload the file in the directions and it will reload the rest of the directions with how to finish. Go back to edit html and then copy and paste the entire code they provide. Save and you are finished.
joanna
Oct 16th, 2009
Thanks
Greg
Oct 16th, 2009
Alton Brown FTW!
Helen
Oct 19th, 2009
You know, I always thought my husband would be able to cook if he could do it with a computer…
Helen
Oct 19th, 2009
I don't know if it would make sense for my blog….. I don't debate people intensely…it seems like I would be spreading a falsehood about my blog if I used it…
Nick the Geek
Oct 20th, 2009
you already claim your musings are random but so often they seem much less random than I was lead to believe. Also I've seen you debate rather intensely so …
Nick the Geek
Oct 20th, 2009
AB is one of my heroes. I'd love to meet him.
Nick the Geek
Oct 20th, 2009
I bet I could work out a way to cook with a computer.