Gifts for amateur chefs

Are there piles of dirty dishes in your kitchen? Are creepy noises coming from your sink? And what smells so funny? It almost looks like you have a...

Without a measuring jug, we would be lost in the kitchen! Cooking is always possible without precise measurements, but when it comes to baking, we ...

The Force is a powerful ally, but it attracts a lot of attention when you, like Anakin in the prequels, simply let the food float through the air. ...

Since its first mention in 565 by Abbot Adamnan in the Vitae Columbae, the creature known as Nessie or the Loch Ness Monster has hardly had a momen...

Cooking with friends is so nice. You are handed a questionably discolored plastic board and told to dice something. When asked exactly how big thes...

The Warhammer 40K universe is known for its iconic, often martial weapons. The most famous are probably the bolter rifles and chainswords of the (C...

If there's one place you wouldn't expect to find the giant lizard Godzilla, it would be in the kitchen. After all, the iconic scaly beast has much ...

In the centuries that the so-called Loch Ness monster has spent in the Scottish lake, it must inevitably have acquired one or two British quirks. F...

The halflings are often ridiculed - for their size, their hairy feet or their eating habits. But let's be honest, we actually envy them their seven...

As a nerd store, we don't normally offer religious devotional items. Normally. Because we make an exception for the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the n...

Cookies - the small text files that are stored on your computer - have been around for a while. But we have only had to consent to their use for no...

Many people have long since realized it: Floppy disks are simply no longer an appropriate storage medium. They are very fragile and simply no longe...

Let someone say again that we humans are always interested in our own safety: Our investigative research has revealed that almost all people surrou...

Anyone who thinks that all nerds are the same has never witnessed a heated debate about whether D&D or DSA is the better pen & paper role-playing g...

When the dirty dishes in your kitchen start to pile up so high that you start to expect to see the fiery eye of Sauron enthroned on them, it's actu...

Sure, it's easier to work with natural numbers in everyday life. But the really cool numbers, which have made math history and led to all kinds of ...

While others are still grumbling about the resolution of Fallout 4, we remind ourselves that it doesn't take many pixels to experience truly epic a...

When everything is going wrong again, there are a few ways to get out of the situation. Either you manage to talk yourself out of it somehow, or yo...

The Plantarium Garden Lab lets seeds sprout without you having to water them regularly. Ideal if normal houseplants don't have a long life in your ...

For anyone who comes into contact with chemicals such as sodium chloride and dihydrogen monoxide on a daily basis, handles all kinds of acids and b...

As nerds, we love clever puns that are not immediately understandable to outsiders. We are particularly fond of the number pi, which seems to lurk ...

The stereotypical nerd is known to live on cold pizza and warm cola. This cliché, which has been propagated by countless films, series and books, h...

The legendary hammer Mjölnir helps Thor fight ice giants, red buttons and other monsters. On calmer days, however, he can also conjure up a good pi...

Ever since Heinz Rühmann's comments on alcoholic fermentation in Die Feuerzangenbowle, we have known that chemistry and tipsy fun go hand in hand. ...

The (almost exclusively jokingly used) eighth layer of the OSI model for network protocols is a nice way of saying that the problem lies with the p...

You call it "baking", we call it "experiment on the behavior of various chemicals under constant heating". And of course we don't need "flour", "sa...

With the cassette sponges in a set of 4, your washing up becomes a journey through time. Or when was the last time you held a real cassette in your...

Contrary to their claims, the dwarves' hospitality is rather limited. The events in Moria, for example, show that they have every reason to fear in...

If you believe a well-known advertisement and the resulting meme, the most interesting man in the world drinks beer. We've never heard such nonsens...

Every race in the most famous science fiction series of all time has its strengths: Klingons are the best fighters, Vulcans the brightest minds and...

Deep silence reigns in the office,The nerd roots without emotion,And the userlooks at blue screens all around. This (slightly modified) poem by Goe...

Some science fiction series develop into real cultural assets over the course of decades. And this sometimes leads to some props from such TV produ...

While dogs are considered man's best friend, cats are the soulmates of nerds: introverted loners with a mind of their own who often seem a little c...

Gamers are game kids through and through, not just on the console. If, by contrast, you find chores such as tidying up or cleaning difficult, it ca...

Have you ever thought about how to drink coffee? You're going to say "Sure, fill the cup, brew, drink. Repeat if necessary." But by "drink coffee" ...

The life of a captain on a huge spaceship exploring the infinite expanses of space is not always a relaxed one. In addition to hostile aliens, you ...