Thank you thank you thank you! I was in Cambridge over the Thanksgiving break, and saw a sign for the talk, and was cross-eyed with envy at the thought of hearing him lecture about all this!
It's funny that he said he's been saying "chemistry" and they corrected him and said "physics" today at Harvard -- of course much of it is chemistry! But there's a lot of physics playing, too.
Really so much of the information came through videos, I feel the transcription isn't worth much, but I did try to get just about everything in that I could! Glad you enjoyed reading it.
Thank you! My computer wasn't equipped to handle the simulcast.
I wish I'd had access to liquid nitrogen at cooking school. I'm now imagining two sizes of ladle, and making a caramel cage over the bowl of the bigger one, and having it be a filigree holder for a coconut milk frozen cup.
It sounds like the alginate pearls are the same process as bath beads.
Yeah, he said the original process of spherification he learned after a trip to a factory, but he didn't say what the factory made. It had to be something like that?
I wish I had been able to catch the talk. I do not do much cooking any more, it's hard to cook well for one person. But I do wish I could do more cooking.
*You* know that it's possible for a normal home cook to use LN2.
Well, a "normal home cook" who is willing to buy a couple hundred dollars worth of LN2 at one shot (which will only last a few days at most), plus rent a truck or vehicle large enough to move the big doer, since the supply places won't sell in a smaller quantity than that, plus leave a hefty deposit for the doer itself, which one then has to truck back to the supply depot later... No, I'd say your normal home cook isn't going to find any of that doable.
You and me? Sure. But I don't think the word "normal" applies to you or me...! :-)
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It's funny that he said he's been saying "chemistry" and they corrected him and said "physics" today at Harvard -- of course much of it is chemistry! But there's a lot of physics playing, too.
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I wish I'd had access to liquid nitrogen at cooking school. I'm now imagining two sizes of ladle, and making a caramel cage over the bowl of the bigger one, and having it be a filigree holder for a coconut milk frozen cup.
It sounds like the alginate pearls are the same process as bath beads.
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Well, a "normal home cook" who is willing to buy a couple hundred dollars worth of LN2 at one shot (which will only last a few days at most), plus rent a truck or vehicle large enough to move the big doer, since the supply places won't sell in a smaller quantity than that, plus leave a hefty deposit for the doer itself, which one then has to truck back to the supply depot later... No, I'd say your normal home cook isn't going to find any of that doable.
You and me? Sure. But I don't think the word "normal" applies to you or me...! :-)
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