by Dave Arnold Welcome to my first video post, in which I’ll show you how to make hand-pulled cotton candy (hereafter denoted as HPCC). HPCC is made by stretching and folding cooked sugar while continuously dusting with powder to keep the strands from sticking together. Each time you fold the candy you double the number […]
by Dave Arnold Nils and I recently visited the great state of Kentucky, home to some of the finest country ham producers in the world – including Finchville Farms. While visiting Finchville it dawned on me that I’ve never posted on country ham. The shame! Before I was known for tech many people knew me […]
by Dave Arnold When it comes to lime juice, freshest is best…right? Not so fast! At Tales of the Cocktail one of my co-speakers, Death and Co super-star bartender Thomas Waugh, and I got into an argument about lime juice. He insisted that juice made with a machine –specifically the Sunkist Juicer: is inferior to […]
by Dave Arnold At this year’s Star Chefs conference I whipped up some beaver-flapper puffs for the crowd to munch on (see here for recipe), and Nils and I liquored everyone up with a passel of cocktails. Our 75 minute demo showcased three different techniques at three different attainability levels: rapid N2O infusion (within anyone’s […]
by Dave Arnold For years I have been distilling illegally in my rotary evaporator because the products are delicious. I don’t feel bad about being a scofflaw — our distillation laws are preposterous. Distillation is defined in the United States as any process that separates ethanol from an ethanol-containing mixture. Unless you are licensed, distillation […]
