Forget guns, here's a 3D printing development that can't be overhyped and pretty much anyone with the munchies can get behind. NASA's sinking a chunk of change into 3D printing food, starting with the humble pizza, in a new project aimed at evolving the future of food for both space and back here on Earth. It's not quite a replicator, but it's a start. Read More >>

After being strapped onto the front of a 15-story controlled explosion and launched clear out of the atmosphere to live in an experimental laboratory orbiting around the Earth at thousands of miles an hour, the least NASA can do is give you a good meal. Read More >>

How's this for a brilliant marketing campaign? To help sell the notion that there's no better way to spend an evening than with a pizza and a movie, Dominos in Brazil created custom DVDs with a heat-reactive flavoured varnish that actually smelled like pizza once they were played. Read More >>

Following the news that Morrisons is going to start delivering food direct to your door courtesy of Ocado, it begs the question, how many of you actually do your food shopping online? Read More >>

Ironically, coming from the land of the tiny, Japan has beaten the rest of the world with the biggest McDonald's fries you've ever seen. It's not just super-sized anymore, it's simply humongous. Meet the epically-named "Mega Potato". Now you're making me hungry. Read More >>

What has your calendar done for you lately? Just reminding you of the day isn't going to cut it any more—that's why god gave us smartphones. So if traditional calendars want any hope of staying relevant, it's time to start pulling double-duty. Which is exactly why we love this ingenious—if perhaps mildly unsanitary—drinkable tea calendar from Hälssen & Lyon. Read More >>

Probably the most expensive piece of meat ever to exist is about to go under the grill in an undisclosed location in London. The £210,000-plus burger, made in a lab without ever seeing a real cow, is slightly bigger than a BK whopper and apparently tastes "reasonably good". If someone slapped one of these puppies on your plate, would you gorge yourself? Or is test tube-grown meat too much to stomach? Read More >>

If you've ever wondered what your pre-prepared food looks like while it's still sat in the tin, these pictures are probably enough to halt your curiosity — because the answer is: kinda gross. Read More >>

Most of us just accept that fact that food left in the freezer too long will eventually become covered in ice and almost inedible. But have you ever stopped to think about why that happens exactly? After all, it's not like everything in your freezer is completely thawing and refreezing every day. Read More >>

You know what's a turn on? Oysters. You know what's a turn off? Vomit. Oysters might be a delicious aphrodisiac, but they have a tendency to be pretty unsanitary and they can make you sick. But researchers at Texas A&M University have found a way pasteurise the bivalves using electron beams, getting rid of some of the stuff that causes you to upchuck. Read More >>

We all love pasta, right? Of course we do -- ever since the Italians brought it over to the UK in 1983, we've all of us been stark staring pasta daft. Now, instead of buying it in bags, you can make your own! Read More >>

The BBC has a wonderful dive into the history of canning, tracing its origins from a technology designed to help expand and sustain the British Empire, to a miracle commodity of modern capitalism. And it almost failed before it ever got going. Read More >>

Resisting the temptation to dig into your french fries after leaving the drive through at McDonald's takes discipline that only a handful of monks on Earth possess. And McDonald's Japan just wants you to stop fighting the urge altogether with the introduction of the potato holder that makes it easy to perch your large fries in your vehicle's cup holders. Read More >>

If you like to be as physically involved with your cooking as possible, swap your electric spice grinder for this beautiful alternative that puts a unique spin — or shake — on the traditional mortar and pestle. Inside the Paprikum is a polished metal ball bearing that can turn any dried spice into a powder in no time. Read More >>

A staggering quantity of suspicious meat has been pulled from the food chain by standards agencies in the Netherlands, with 50,000 tonnes of processed protein earmarked for human consumption recalled. Read More >>