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Kochen Fur Geeks (2011)

by Jeff Potter(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

3868994378 (ISBN13: 9783868994377)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

O'Reilly Verlag

review 1: Okay, this book wasn't exactly what I expected. In some ways, it's almost a textbook for a food science class and a "cooking for dummies" book in one, with some fun geeky things tossed in. To say it's textbook-like is to say that at times it felt long-winded and unnecessarily detailed.But of course, that's just where I'm coming from, as a somewhat-interested-in-food-science person and a knows-plenty-about-cooking-already person. I can imagine people who really want to know so many things about the details of food science who would be thrilled to find it all in one spot.And when the book is fun, it's *really* fun, including awesome ideas about how to make ice cream with liquid nitrogen and cook pizza in 45 seconds. So I'm glad I have it on the shelf, but I should have just ... moreskimmed it when necessary, not gone cover-to-cover.
review 2: Like Marmite, you'll love it or loathe it.' How to become your own Heston Blumenthal ' might be an alternative title.The Tech in the techniques of cooking and cookery with fascinating details of how and why things happen and new ways of preparing food.Full of practical details of how to make DIY versions of professional kitchen equipment, although it appears that it is easier to get certain items in the US than here in the UK.Some bits don't make happy reading. Such as the nice deli ham leg sliced to order which is made up from off cuts ' glued together with an edible bonding wash. The boneless ham!I'm dying to try out the ' fizzy fruit ' seen in one of H.B's TV shows. Slices of fruit, dry ice and a pressure cooker. Trouble is that in the UK you can only get the ice in commercial size bags, far to big for domestic use. less

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