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From "modernist cuisine at home" which is kind of the diet version of the full $625 set, I have made the pressure cooked carrot soup and it is in fact the best
by VLM 12y ago
From "modernist cuisine at home" which is kind of the diet version of the full $625 set, I have made the pressure cooked carrot soup and it is in fact the best carrot soup I've ever eaten.
So you need a pressure cooker. And probably an immersion blender or at minimum a blender of some kind.
I've also done a variety of extractions. Carotene butter (which I think you need for the soup above anyway). This requires little more than a vegetable or herb with fat soluble flavors (like lots of carrot) and some butter and a saucepan. And a juicer. Maybe I'm a weirdo (oh, who am I kidding, I'm a weirdo) but I like carotene butter on ... everything. Its like butter-ketchup, but tastier.
The recipes are not necessarily oriented around generating the maximum volume of food or quantity of food per unit of raw material input. So it takes a lot of carrots to make a large batch of carotene butter. So it does. And its worth it.
A lot of it is ideas and techniques. So the advice on homemade hamburgers was interesting and informative and I was able to successfully employ it. But I didn't "git clone" the recipe, I just kind of fixed up my technique.
- mitchty 12y agoYep, the biggest takeaway from modernist cuisine is that knowing how food cooks and the chemical reactions therein means you can cook a better meal. Its not necessarily about distilling the flavor of a thing and making it look like something else. Thats more a upscale restaurant thing. The things I found most intriguing were how little we actually knew about the process of cooking. Like barbeque as an example, it boggles my mind that until modernist cuisine came around we didn't really understand how it worked at a fundamental level. Just a bunch of "well we do this and it works and tastes well", aka we hit a local maxima and didn't seem to want to move off that hill to see if there were higher peaks around by using binoculars.
- morsch 12y agoThe carotene butter sounds good, I'll try that. The recipe for the carrot soup seems to available on their web site (no centrifuge necessary!), so maybe that's next: http://modernistcuisine.com/recipes/caramelized-carrot-soup-no-centrifuge-necessary/ http://modernistcuisine.com/recipes/caramelized-carrot-soup-...