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* On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee. This is | * [https://a.co/d/8Nw3X5I On Food and Cooking - the Science and Lore of the Kitchen] by Harold McGee. This is a bible of all the science behind every kind of food you can imagine. This is a tour de force that every food hacker should have. | ||
* Modernist Cuisine and Modernist Cuisine at Home by Nathan Myhrvold, et al. A billionaire hires top chefs and a warehouse of top end equipment to figure out how to make the best of every recipe. In the five volume set you find that five star potato salad takes six days to make and involves both a centrifuge and a roto-vap. In the At Home volume they present recipes using techniques you can do at home. | * [https://a.co/d/6mO71ZU Modernist Cuisine] and [https://a.co/d/2jI15nU Modernist Cuisine at Home] by Nathan Myhrvold, et al. A billionaire hires top chefs and a warehouse of top end equipment to figure out how to make the best of every recipe. In the five volume set you find that five star potato salad takes six days to make and involves both a centrifuge and a roto-vap. In the At Home volume they present recipes using techniques you can do at home. | ||
* Harvard | * This lecture with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goP7xlyiJEw José Andrés on gelation] is fascinating. Harvard University has a large number of lectures videos online that cover [https://sciencecooking.seas.harvard.edu/ food and cooking]. | ||
== Bread == | == Bread == | ||
* [https://a.co/d/f90KFB5 How To Bake Bread: The Five Families of Bread] and it's follow on How to Bake More Bread by Michael Kalanty is an engineering approach to bread. The author explains why each step in bread baking is important and what happens in that step. He gives the results of experiments in changing the variables. A must read for a home bread experimenter. | |||
* [https://a.co/d/fq9UVn7 Modernist Bread At Home] covers only bread baking with some excellent tips and how-to. | |||
== Coffee == | == Coffee == | ||
Maker Nexus offers an excellent seminar in roasting coffee at home. | |||
* [https://a.co/d/5BDdin8 Coffee - A guide to buying, brewing, and enjoying] by Kenneth Davids | |||
* [https://a.co/d/848TK3m Home Coffee Roasting, Romance, and Revival] by Kenneth Davids | |||
* [https://a.co/d/gd8ta47 21st Century Coffee: A guide] by Kenneth Davids | |||
* [https://makezine.com/article/home/food-beverage/my-15-year-quest-to-make-the-ultimate-diy-coffee-roaster Make Magazine article on making your own coffee roaster] by Larry Cotton | |||
Latest revision as of 17:09, 2 September 2024
Making can be done in the kitchen as well!
The Science of Cooking
Resources that tell you what's really going on in your pots and pans.
- On Food and Cooking - the Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee. This is a bible of all the science behind every kind of food you can imagine. This is a tour de force that every food hacker should have.
- Modernist Cuisine and Modernist Cuisine at Home by Nathan Myhrvold, et al. A billionaire hires top chefs and a warehouse of top end equipment to figure out how to make the best of every recipe. In the five volume set you find that five star potato salad takes six days to make and involves both a centrifuge and a roto-vap. In the At Home volume they present recipes using techniques you can do at home.
- This lecture with José Andrés on gelation is fascinating. Harvard University has a large number of lectures videos online that cover food and cooking.
Bread
- How To Bake Bread: The Five Families of Bread and it's follow on How to Bake More Bread by Michael Kalanty is an engineering approach to bread. The author explains why each step in bread baking is important and what happens in that step. He gives the results of experiments in changing the variables. A must read for a home bread experimenter.
- Modernist Bread At Home covers only bread baking with some excellent tips and how-to.
Coffee
Maker Nexus offers an excellent seminar in roasting coffee at home.
- Coffee - A guide to buying, brewing, and enjoying by Kenneth Davids
- Home Coffee Roasting, Romance, and Revival by Kenneth Davids
- 21st Century Coffee: A guide by Kenneth Davids
- Make Magazine article on making your own coffee roaster by Larry Cotton
