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africanmeat
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gonefishin
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Cool Ahron!
I was going to post some instruction for some FOTW Flavor Bombs Next Week, can't wait to hear your contributions! Dan |
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gonefishin
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Balsamic Vinegar "Bombs"
Supplies
Directions
Tips:
What shapes can I make:
What can I use for a liquid?
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Margi Cintrano
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Dan.
Vanguard ... pheonomenal.
Thanks for posting.
Margaux.
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africanmeat
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Dan this looks great. it will surprise your Guests if you sprinkle it on a salad . or one Pearl on a smoked salmon and creme cheese . Thanks.
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gonefishin
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Thanks for the compliments. It was actually more difficult than I thought to slowly push the plunger, of the syringe, with one hand...while taking a picture with my other hand. It's much easier using two hands to control the rate.
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gracoman
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I have been dipping my toe into the fine art of molecular gastronomy and find it fascinating. To me, the entire concept is about surprise and delight. Dishes that are not visibly recognizable are instantly understood the moment they hit the palate. Conversely, dishes that are immediately recognizable change dramatically as soon as they are tasted.
Hot ice cream that melts when it cools, carbonated fruit, deconstructed classic dishes that amuse and levitate. Don't think for a minute these dishes are somehow falsified or lacking in any way. They are delicious and made from the finest, freshest ingredients. But they are presented with flair, playfulness and a healthy dose of magic. Reverse seared chuck eye steaks. Served with veggies, a sauted mushroom cap, blue cheese foam and port wine fluid gel. The blue cheese foam has a large advantage over a sauce. Cheese sauces are notoriously heavy while the foam is light, airy, and packed with blue cheese flavor. The port wine fluid gel has the properties of a liquid and a gel. It is also almost 100% port wine. A very fine port wine. A complete about face from the cheese foam. I've only begun to experiment in this area. It is fun and exciting. |
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Wow, thanks for sharing your adventures in gastronomy, graco! I agree with your statement that these dishes aren't lacking in flavor. Do you have any other input, or instruction on some of the methods that you have used? Love to see them!
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The blue cheese foam and port wine fluid gel were my first experiments because they are easy. The foam was just blue cheese mixed into hot cream and sieved into a whipper. The fluid gel was just port wine heated with agar agar, left to set, cut into small cubes, blasted with an immersion blender and passed through a fine mesh sieve. I added more wine before serving to make it more fluid than gel.
I took the free edX Harvard cooking course that was posted here which is what got me interested in molecular gastronomy. I just never did anything with it until now. I plan on playing around with this stuff quite a bit and would be happy to post my results. Good or bad |
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gracoman
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Here's a neat little excursion into the art of molecular gastronomy that uses products that are available in any grocery store.
Glass Potato Chips Seasoned With Smoked Maldon Salt Served with onion soup foam These are beyond awesome. Everybody served was laughing and could speak of nothing else. How cool is that. The original recipe as posted in The Vancouver Sun Hamid Salimian, Diva at the Met chef, serves the ‘glass’ potato chip as part of an amuse bouche. He puts a dab of creme fraiche on a plate or stone, tops it with chopped chives and finishes with a heap of rasped truffles and the glass potato. Baked Potato Stock 8 Yukon gold potatoes ½ cup of olive oil 1 tablespoon kosher salt 1 liter of hot water (95 C, not boiling) Wash the potatoes under cold water and dry with paper towel. Cut into the skin of each potato 1 cm. Toss the potatoes with ½ cup of olive and season with the salt. Bake for 25 minutes at 450 F. Remove from oven and place the baked potatoes in a bowl with 1 litre of hot water (95 C, slightly cooler than boiling temperature), cover it and let it sit at room temperature for 2 hours. Strain the mixture with a fine strainer, reserving the baked potato stock. Chill stock in preparation for next step. Baked Potato Gel 4 tablespoons potato starch 2 cups of baked potato stock Put chilled baked potato stock into a pot and whisk in the potato starch. Continue whisking the starch and stock together and bring it to boil, forming a gel. Remove from heat. Drying: Spread the potato gel on a sheet of parchment paper. The gel should be about 3 mm thick. Dry in the oven at 135 F for 2 hours until fully dry. Frying: Break the dried sheet into irregular pieces about the size of playing card. Fry these potato chips at 350 F until clear and crisp. Remove and place on paper towel, then season with kosher salt. I used a combination of the original recipe and this one. I dried these chips in my dehydrator set at 135°F overnight. 2 hours was a joke. Do not fry the chips in oil over 350°F or they will turn opaque. Some may find it difficult to find potato starch so I tried corn starch as a thickener. A corn starch thickened glass potato chip Served with the same onion soup foam The corn starch chips had less potato flavor and a bit of a popcorny thing going on which nobody noticed until I mentioned it. These chips make people smile |
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gonefishin
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that is very odd indeed! I'll have to try it this summer!
thanks for sharing! |
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I did a take on Heston Bleumanthal's famous egg and bacon ice cream served at his restaurant The Fat Duck.
Caramelized brioche, candied bacon, and bacon and egg ice cream, sided with strawberry caviar, coffee with cream jelly, and extra dry champagne. This is a very rich dessert disguised as a breakfast of scrambled eggs, toast, and bacon. It takes 24 egg yolks and 1/2 pound of bacon to make 1 qt of this ice cream. It looks like scrambled eggs, smells and tastes just like bacon and eggs but it is sweet. "It takes all expectations and turns them completely on their heads". This is very true. It is also one of the most memorable dishes of any sort that I have had the pleasure of sitting down to. The most important thing I took away from making this dish is the method of freezing ice cream which is far superior to any home ice cream freezer available. I used powdered dry ice to freeze the ice cream. It freezes so quickly ice crystals do not have a chance to form. The result is the smoothest, creamiest ice cream I have ever produced. I may never use my two different ice cream freezers again. |
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Really interesting...looks and sounds delicious! Wonderful photo too!
What do you have in the bottom left and right corners to go with the bacon and eggs? Stunning...I've got to give this a try
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At the bottom left is the strawberry caviar. I wanted to add some freshness in a more dramatic way than sliced fruit. This one was a mistake. Not because the strawberry caviar was bad, it was lost to all of the strong flavors in the rest of the dish.
At the bottom right is coffee with cream jelly. The original English recipe is served with tea jelly but we are on the coffee side of the pond. The cream layer is made with half and half mixed with coconut cream. The coffee layer is strong instant coffee. Both are sweetened then thickened with agar agar. The different layers are kept simmering while one is poured, left to set, and so on. The entire thing sets in the fridge in 4 hours. |
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Margi Cintrano
Master Chef Joined: 03 February 2012 Location: Spain Status: Offline Points: 6357 |
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Gentlemen.
Very fascinating posts indeed. I had eaten in El Bulli and at Heston´s Restaurant in Bray in 2010. Absolutely, impeccably spectacular experiences. I am a profesional restaurant reporter based now in Southern France and have recently translated a French author photographer´s book PDF in English. Paco Roncero is also quite a fascinating culinary artist involved with molecular cuisine. During 2010, Heston had done a Candyland dessert that was absolutely amazingly memorable as Chef Achatz and several others. Just fascinating - each & every post !! Thank you all .. Have a wonderful September .. |
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I've been meaning to try this one. I have all the stuff...I just have to follow through with putting it together. The recipe is from oilab.info Olive Oil Gummies Ingredients150g Extra virgin olive oil Directions
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I finally got around to making the Olive Oil Gummies. I used some really nice Spanish Olive Oil. These gummies conveyed a real nice flavor that was true to the Picual Olive Oil.
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I ran across this site some time ago. Apparently, making a food or foods with the appearance of another goes back at least as far as the Middle Ages. They were called illusion foods.
"Illusion Foods filled the niche between everyday food & extravagant creations, and, quite importantly, usually with a touch of humor. In the Middle Ages they provided both needed sustenance & entertainment, which, just like today, is always a very good thing indeed." Serving a dish with the appearance of rotted meat isn't quite how we handle this today but it was a "thing" when real rotted meat was also a thing among other things Illusion Foods |
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Margi Cintrano
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The El Bulli Foundation ( Fundación El Bulli, now located in Barcelona ) has many kits available for sale .. Amazing concoctions .. You are quite an adventurer and conqueror ! All my best wishes ..
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