posted by Dave Arnold High alcohol fluids can’t normally be clarified with gelatin because they can’t normally be adequately frozen. A couple of years ago, the guys over at Tailor at the time (Sam Mason and Fran Derby) had the idea to freeze the gelatin laced liquor with LN; when it thawed, it clarified. Brilliant. They […]
posted by Dave Arnold Upshot: Anyone with a packet of agar and a whisk can clarify fragile fresh juices, or anything else for that matter, in under an hour with zero pieces of special equipment. The yield on the technique is high—as good as gelatin clarification. Read more for details. Long Story: Yesterday I wrote […]
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 Nils Noren I was fortunate enough to have dinner at Masa, here in New York, the other night. And I was also very fortunate in not having to pick up the check (thank you so much, Christian and Andrea). Chef Masa and his team sure know how to put on a great show. We didn’t […]
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 […]
