If you don't want to invest in buying a full-blown smoker, consider creating one of your own out of a cardboard box with Alton Brown's tutorial.

This March in Minnesota, our solar oven got hot enough to bake a killer batch of scones—and in the summer, it can whip up brownies in a brownout. The project makes use of scraps (or full 4 x 8 ...

The project took him several months, a timeline that impresses many. “I built it in 12 weeks, and although everyone gasps when I tell them that, I worked on it tirelessly for 15 hours a day ...

Hot Box: How Minnesota ... They’ve been following the 612 Sauna Society project from afar and hope to build a Finnish sauna in their neighborhood in Bushwick, Brooklyn.