Carbonated foam

Carbonated foam

by | Jul 30, 2012 | Food Industry

Carbonation is weird, and I’ve gotten to where I only seek out carbonated beverages when I eat Mexican food or need a vector for my vodka. Though it’s not ground-breaking, I started exploring carbonating fluid gels, based on Russel Karath’s blog post...
Carbonated foam

Best bread ever

by | Jul 16, 2012 | Food Industry

Well-known baker/chef Charlie Van Over and author/chef Priscilla Martel spent one week at The Lab working on some bread recipes. They were some of the most fun and colorful chefs to spend time in our lab. Chef Charlie had developed a specific mixing blade for the...
Carbonated foam

Spheres

by | Jul 6, 2012 | Food Industry

The technique of spherification is essentially a controlled gelling process. At the point where two different foods meet, a membrane forms. In “direct spherification,” alginate, a seaweed-based hydrocolloid, is blended into Liquid A. It reacts with the...
Carbonated foam

Modernist Cuisine Dinner at Palace Ballroom

by | Jun 30, 2012 | Food Industry

Courtesy of Nathan Crave These last few weeks have been almost as busy as the month of May. We had the joy of cooking for a few charities and sharing our food with children at a Montessori school. While it is awesome to cook for celebrity chefs, there is something...

The Rad Lab

by | Jun 6, 2012 | Food Industry

I work here! OMG! Here’s an introduction to the books that the Modernist Cuisine marketing team put together. Most people wonder why in the world you’d want such a huge-mongous book in the kitchen or on your extra-tall bookshelves, but since starting at...