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Monthly Archives: July 2015

Tempering chocolate sous vide

Posted on July 29, 2015

After posting about dieting on a food blog, I thought I should make amends – an atonement by way of chocolate. While humans have been drinking chocolate for millennia, they only worked out how to turn it into a block fairly recently (not much more than 100 years). The process involves multiple steps, starting with

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Posted in All posts, Cooking and preparations, Science and information | Tags: Chocolate |

Diets and their traps

Posted on July 17, 2015

My ‘Four Diet Dictums’: 1: All Diets work in the short term. 2: All Diets work equally in the short term. 3: All Diets fail in the long term. 4: All Diets fail equally in the long term. This is my interpretation of the science. It may seem nihilistic, but I think it’s empowering. For example, if you want

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Posted in All posts, Science and information, Thoughts and opinions | Tags: diets |

Melting cheese

Posted on July 9, 2015

The home cook has limited options for melting a non-melty cheese (e.g. cheddar), often resorting instead to a ‘manufactured cheese-like substance’ that has been engineered to melt (something from the Kraft line, for example). What is the problem with melting cheese? It doesn’t melt as an emulsion, it separates into a tough protein lump surrounded by

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Posted in All posts, Science and information, Techniques and equipment | Tags: cheese |

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