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Last Friday’s seminar on Technology for the Home Cook was both inspiring and delicious. Led by French Culinary Institute’s Dave Arnold and Nils Noren, the two responsible for the informative blog Cooking Issues, the class reinforced some theories I’d learned at A Razor A Shiny Knife/Ideas in Food event I went to a while back (that’s my beautiful penmanship in the main photo, BTW), a few of which being:
+Using a pressure cooker can add/alter the flavor and structure of foods. For example, it can desulphurize and hence reduce power of onions, garlic, mustard seeds, horseradish and so on.
+Overcooking and then dehydrating foods into “glasses” or leathers and then deep frying them causes them to puff up: think pork rinds/pirates booty.
+The awesome power of liquid nitrogen instantly freezes foods to achieve completely different textures and effects. Makes quick work of everything from solidifying ice cream to chilling champagne glasses.
+That immersion circulators are the bomb and prices are about to drop significantly in the coming months for anyone interested in making their cooking lives easier.
+That I need a VitaPrep more than ever to make super creamy soup bases out of strained pistachios and stock, among other things.
+That you can carbonate not only the water in your drink, but also the gin and the lime juice, and said super fizzy cocktail goes straight to your head.
+That I want to play with agar agar to make fun edible gels out of coconut milk and nutella.
+And most importantly, that ketchup in chocolate form is a trip.
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