In the world of competition barbecue, there's a saying: “It's not the cooker, it's the cook.” That means that in a blind tasting, you can't tell if the end result was cooked in a modern ...

(CBS) - Let's have a little fun and see what this group of young students can do with a 55-gallon steel drum using a little - wait for it - science! The payoff after a long build-up kicks in at about ...

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Six large drums filled with toxic chemicals encased in concrete were discovered buried under a Long Island park in a community long plagued by cancer concerns, officials revealed this week. The ...

Last spring, the world’s first 55-gallon steel drum to be lithographed in full color flashed down the line at Rheem Manufacturing Company’s New Orleans plant. Rheem had begun in earnest to cash in on ...

“Toxic Waste,” the label reads in bold letters. A ring of fluorescent green oozes from under the lid. Go ahead, try one, it beckons. How long can you stand it? A full minute? Then rate yourself a ...

On a blustery March afternoon, Jon Rygiel was outside his family's business in Cadott, cutting the lid off a 55-gallon steel drum to make a trash barrel. The 24-year-old mechanic was tidying up the ...

They’re often presumed to be safe because they’re empty, but steel drums with only a small amount of flammable residue or vapor inside have exploded, injuring and killing scores of people, a Milwaukee ...