When I first saw this, I scratched my head and wondered … why?
Well, what I’m about to show you may not be at the top of your Christmas list,
but it has a certain novelty all the same.
Take a look:
Photo courtesy of Maya Weinstein via Co.EXIST
Your eyes do not deceive you.
This lovely wooden case indeed contains an undeniably artisan make-your-own high fructose corn syrup kit.
Photo courtesy of Maya Weinstein via Co.EXIST
It includes hard-to-find ingredients such as Yellow Dent #2, glucose isomerase, and sulfuric acid.
Nope, you won’t find those in the baking aisle, girls.
This kit is more “chem lab” than “kitchen.”
You’re wondering, too, aren’t you?
Why on earth would I want to make this sordid sweetener?
As you may have guessed, this is more of a tongue-in-cheek affair, but it doesn’t come without a dose of seriousness.
“The Kit provides the user with a way to directly interact with an ingredient that is typically only produced in large-scale factories behind closed doors,” explains designer Maya Weinstein. “The kit allows everyone to be a citizen food scientist and take control of the mysteries behind industrial food production.”
See what I mean?
Weinstein says that her kits could be used to educate both kids and adults about how processed foods are fabricated, while simultaneously satisfying the mad scientist in us all. “It’s really meant to show you something that you don’t already know—what industrial products are made of.”
It might make a crafty Christmas gift after all!
Weinstein is also contemplating a cookbook with recipes for other industrialized ingredients like food dyes and MSG. Watch her unconventional cooking show below. Do you think it has a chance on the Food Network?
When you see the actual parts of high fructose syrup , it is truly disgusting looking! Can you imagine what a cigarette kit would look like with little vials of arsenic, lead and other heavy metals ? Not to mention carbon and tar in vials too!! It might change a few teenager minds who are among the fastest growing group of new smokers!