posted by Dave Arnold Aki and Alex from Ideas in Food have hit on a major breakthrough on clarification: the use of a vacuum machine to get clarified liquid from agar gels. Occasionally, I see ideas so good I’m pissed I didn’t think of them myself. This is one of those. Everyone who reads our […]
posted by Dave Arnold Here is a post on no-tech food—the quest for wild sea urchins. I’ve spent the last couple of days on a remote island in Maine’s Penobscot Bay. Bear Island is 40 some-odd acres of rocky bluffs, beaches, freshwater marshes, meadows, and spruce forest. With the exception of a couple of photovoltaic […]
posted by Dave Arnold As readers of this blog might know, I’m building my own rotovap. I think I can improve on the laboratory rotovap (I know I can). For the reasons to make a new one, see here. If you don’t know rotovaps, see here. Here is the condenser section of the new rotovap. […]
posted by Dave Arnold In response to a rotovap post, Asbel Reyes wrote: What’s your thoughts on marrying a microwave, a superfreezer, a cold trap, and vacuum for instant freeze drying? Well, I haven’t tried that exactly; but I have dabbled with microwave vacuum dehydration (MVD). In October 2006, Johnny Iuzzini and I were working on […]
posted by Dave Arnold Nils and I finished teaching a two-day intensive hydrocolloid class today so we hadn’t managed to get any posts together. At the end of the class the perfect Friday evening post presented itself. One of the people in the class said how much he liked to use agave nectar in his tequila drinks. Nils and […]
