Cooks Forum

Welcome to the cook­ing sup­port forum for Modernist Cuisine. This should be your first place to come for assistance–or to share your suc­cesses and insights–when try­ing recipes and tech­niques from the book. The MC culi­nary team, as well as hun­dreds of fel­low read­ers, are here to help. Anyone may search and read the dis­cus­sions here, but you must reg­is­ter and login to post. The MC team will give pri­or­ity assis­tance to con­firmed MC own­ers, but will do their best to answer as many ques­tions as time per­mits. If you run into a prob­lem with the forum, please email us so that we can fix it.

 
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Home Cooks Forum

Help with the Recipes

Get answers from the MC culi­nary team and other mem­bers to ques­tions about the recipes in MC, and share your tips

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Discussions in this area are orga­nized into top­ics labeled by the recipe name and page num­bers, e.g. “Mac and Cheese (3−387 and 6–192)” or “Strawberry Gazpacho (5−277)”. For ease of nav­i­ga­tion, top­ics are grouped alpha­bet­i­cally into four forums. To post a ques­tion, first open the appro­pri­ate recipe topic, or cre­ate it if it does not yet exist. General posts that are not spe­cific to a recipe should be made in the “Help with Ingredients,” “Help with Equipment,” or “General Comments and Questions” areas.

Forums Topics Posts

A-F

1 2 3

Recipes from Abalone through Frozen White “Truffle”

 26 121

G-M

1 2

Recipes from Garlic Confit through Mustard Vinaigrette

 14 52

N-R

1 2

Recipes from Navel Orange Salad through Rye Bread

 21 62

S-Z

Recipes from Saffron Honey Foam through Zucchini Blossom Beignet

 5 30

Help with Ingredients

Tips on where to find Modernist ingre­di­ents and how to use them effectively

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If your ques­tion has to do with a spe­cific recipe, add it to the appro­pri­ate topic in the “Help with the Recipes” sec­tion. Use this area for more gen­eral ques­tions and com­ments about ingredients.

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Sources for Modernist ingre­di­ents

1 2

Where to find mod­ern thick­en­ers, gelling agents, liq­uid nitro­gen, and the like

 22 95

Sources for unusual foods

Where to find exotic spices, sauces, pro­duce, etc.

 3 13

Using ingre­di­ents

Discussions about prepar­ing, cook­ing, and stor­ing ingredients

 10 25

Help with Equipment

Discussion about cook­ing gear of all kinds

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Sous Vide Cooking Gear

1 2

Water baths, vac­uum seal­ers, and sous vide bags and containers

 15 83

Ovens

Conventional ovens, combi ovens, and water-vapor ovens

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Countertop Tools

1 2

Scales, ther­mome­ters, mix­ers, sieves, and other gadgets

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Other Appliances

1 2

Centrifuges, homog­e­niz­ers, vac­uum fil­ters, and so on

 14 58

Help with Techniques

Discussion about all the ways to pre­pare, cook, freeze, and store food

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Modernist Techniques

1 2 3

From gelling and foam­ing to cryosear­ing, cook­ing sous vide, and so on

 25 91

Traditional Techniques

From air-drying to wet-curing, and every­thing in between

 11 36

General Questions and Comments

Post queries or thoughts about the book itself, the sci­ence of cook­ing, the pho­tog­ra­phy, and other gen­eral top­ics here

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This area is for top­ics that don’t fall into the cat­e­gories above. For com­ments or ques­tions about recipes in MC, use the appro­pri­ate topic in the “Help with the Recipes” section.

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The Science of Cooking

How cook­ing works

 6 21

Food Photography

The imagery of MC, and how to make great food photos

 3 7

Cookbooks

Discussion about MC and other cookbooks

 8 22

Restaurants

Discussions about great places to eat

 10 31

General Discussion

1 2

If your topic doesn’t fit into any of the forums above, post it here

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