6 posts tagged alginate

Wired: Gadget Lab: Maker Faire wasn’t all exploding battlebots and 300,000-volt giraffes. There were food hackers at work, too, like Michael Zbyszynksi, who explains how to make carrot caviar in this video.

Photo by Mel B via flickr.com (CC). Measuring powders by volume has serious limitations (more on this later in an up-coming post), but one great advantage is that for small quantities going by volume can sometimes be more accurate than weighing them. At least when you work in a kitchen and don’t have access to professional lab scales.

Most people who know me know that I love to cook.  A while ago I learned about El Bulli, a restaurant located on Spain’s Costa Brava.  It is repeatedly voted the best and most innovative restaurant in the world and is lead by sort of a mad scientist chef named Ferran Adria who combines the deterministic

Tasting menu Pineapple cous cous, candy ginger, eggplant, coconut Artichoke puree crispy broccoli, parm air Sou-vide tiger shrimp Mandarin orange, puffed rice, avocado Banana Bread, syrup, ice cream Made with liquid nitrogen

We had some visitors from Minnesota over the weekend and one of their favorites is something called a "seafood cancun". Apparently the equivalent to a seafood enchilada with a spicy bechamel.... This is our version..... Corn tortilla roll-ups, diced jalapeno pate, Dungeness crab salad with lime and "pepperjack" ravioli's.....