Are you a cook who marches to a different drummer -- used to expressing your creativity instead of just following recipes? Interested in the science behind what happens to food while it's cooking? Do you want to learn what makes a recipe work so you can improvise and create your own unique dish?
More than just a cookbook, Cooking for Geeks applies your curiosity to discovery, inspiration, and invention in the kitchen.
Learn how to:
Initialize your kitchen and calibrate your tools
Learn about the important reactions in cooking, such as protein denaturation, Maillard reactions, and caramelization, and how they impact the foods we cook
Play with your food using hydrocolloids and sous vide cooking
Gain first-hand insights from interviews with researchers, food scientists, knife experts, chefs, writers, and more, including author Harold McGee, TV personality Adam Savage, chemist Hervé This, and xkcd
Are you a cook who marches to a different drummer -- used to expressing your creativity instead of just following recipes? Interested in the science behind what happens to food while it's cooking? Do you want to learn what makes a recipe work so you can improvise and create your own unique dish?
More than just a cookbook, Cooking for Geeks applies your curiosity to discovery, inspiration, and invention in the kitchen.
Learn how to:
Initialize your kitchen and calibrate your tools
Learn about the important reactions in cooking, such as protein denaturation, Maillard reactions, and caramelization, and how they impact the foods we cook
Play with your food using hydrocolloids and sous vide cooking
Gain first-hand insights from interviews with researchers, food scientists, knife experts, chefs, writers, and more, including author Harold McGee, TV personality Adam Savage, chemist Hervé This, and xkcd
Much, much more!
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432 Pages
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 0.7 x 9.2 inches
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My mom desperately needs this lol
What are they going to cook? A hard drive? The books? I don't get it...
Love this
I feel like the two pairs of hands in the picture are fighting over the book. Like, "I'm gonna cook." "No, I am!"
So geeks don't eat the same type of food as us normal people do?
No. Oranges. Ef
Try again. Uhh ha. No. Oranged Eggplant with a tofu side.
:winrar! /loop
Makes a good byte.
cool