Somewhat off topic (this is certainly not cooking in ten minutes or less) but the English chef Heston Blumenthal is something of a cooking hacker whose work som

Somewhat off topic (this is certainly not cooking in ten minutes or less) but the English chef Heston Blumenthal is something of a cooking hacker whose work some of you might find interesting. There's a whole bunch of his writings here: http://browse.guardian.co.uk/search?search_target=%2Fsearch&fr=cb-guardian&search=heston+blumenthal+appliance+science&N=&sort=relevance http://browse.guardian.co.uk/search?search_target=%2Fsearch&... (look for the links called "The appliance of science" - that's his weekly column)