Chefs As Chemists 266
circletimessquare writes "Using ingredients usually relegated to the lower half of the list of ingredients on a Twinkies wrapper, some professional chefs are turning themselves into magicians with food. Ferran Adrià in Spain and Heston Blumenthal in England have been doing this for years, but the New York Times updates us on the ongoing experiments at WD-50 in New York City. Xanthan Gum, agar-agar, and other hydrocolloids are being used to bring strange effects to your food. Think butter that doesn't melt in the oven, foie gras you can tie into knots, and fried mayonnaise."
You had me at... (Score:2, Funny)
How is this different than a food chemist? (Score:4, Funny)
You know someone read your post (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Old old old (Score:5, Funny)
Food? (Score:0, Funny)
Re:How is this different than a food chemist? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:scam to sell stuff (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Food as Art, Science or chemistry (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Foie Gras is some tasty good (Score:1, Funny)
In fact, I'm going to eat more of it just to spite your tree hugging, faggoty feelings.
What did you think of these "chemists"? (Score:4, Funny)
WD-40 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Two cents worth... (Score:4, Funny)
The whole "molecular gastronomy" trend is simply applying the same strategy to "warm" dishes.
...which is why I included it in quotes as well. Slapping lipstick on a pig does NOT make it Natalie Portman.
Paris Hilton, maybe, but not Portman.
I'm trying not to. (Score:4, Funny)
I don't want to think about butter that doesn't melt in the oven, or foie gras in knots
TV Dinners (Score:4, Funny)
For some reason, this is the first thing that popped into my head when I read TFA.
Re:How is this different than a food chemist? (Score:3, Funny)
And in the south, frying is a religion. Thank you! I'll be here all night.
Re:Foie Gras is some nasty shit... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:You know someone read your post (Score:1, Funny)
Re:How is this different than a food chemist? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Foie Gras is some nasty shit... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Foie Gras is some nasty shit... (Score:2, Funny)
Mmmm... panda-burgers...
I mean... come on people.
Humans have always been eating other animals.
You know... being the top of the food chain has its responsibilities as well.
If we stuck to what fell of the tree... well... lets just say that Marky Mark and Charlton Heston would not call this place their home.
Instead, human ancestors ate meat.
Whenever they could get their greedy little hands on it. And that tasty protein made them stronger, bigger, smarter hunters.
After a while, they became so smart they realised - "Why the fuck should I run after these animals whenever I need food? Lets capture some of them, put them in some kind of a fence and keep them there for later eating."
Tortured? Dude, we used to bash their heads with rocks and sticks.
And we didn't even bother to feed them and take care of them for years before that.
We would just sneak up on them, and then 10-20 of us would start throwing rocks at it.
Many times we would just hurt it a lot, and it would run away to die from the wounds while we went for other, slower pray.
Get the ancestors of today's cows and ask them if they would rather have it the old way, or would they have it like their relatives today?
I already know what they would say.
They would say: MOOOO!!!