According to a group of like-minded individuals who came together over a love of experimenting with food and drink. Food hacking is about creating tools and new technologies by combining the ancient wisdom of traditional societies with today's technology and scientific understanding. They started the website foodhackingbase.org to promote these concepts and a hands-on workshop to spread the movement, and have since raised money on Indiegogo.com to host these food hacking hubs at major hacker conferences like 30C3. Another website, food-hacks.wonderhowto.com is a collective of "kitchen shortcuts for brilliantly lazy cooks." The site uses a voting system to allow the user to decide and vote for the best methodology or hack. Users can simply show off their hacking ideas or simply ask colleagues for advice online. With tons of solutions even for culinary-challenged chefs who would like a little help speeding things up in the kitchen and still tasting good. Nerd God, VC and former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold said: “Treating food like something to be hacked is not recent.” One of his initiatives, Modernist Cuisine, is about exploring the science of food, using super-expensive cookbooks and creating a lab to do just that. Since all food is made up of chemicals, modernist cuisine seeks to achieve excellent results only with modern alternatives. Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking While researching food hacking and observing Zero Cuisine, we observed a behavior that was familiar with food hacking and that was the need to make and create something new. Founder of Zero Cuisine, Serene was looking for a quick and easy to prepare alternative to the carbohydrate diet, but resources were limited... middle of paper... l, commented: "There are some people who they are self-motivated and do not compete with anyone but themselves. They are fascinated by the "game" - they reach new levels and earn points. Then there are other people who are driven by competition with others watch and judge their performance. They want accountability. Other people like social media. They want to feel supported and they want to feel a sense of community. (The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, 2013) Taping on DIY Diets Consumer Reports Magazine asked. to 9,000 readers to evaluate 13 diet plans and tools. “Below are brief descriptions of the 13 diets in their ratings, listed in alphabetical order. In each case, we describe who the diet is best for, based on our analysis and a description of how it works. (Consumer Reports magazine, 2013a)