FCI Student Demo (April 30, 2009)

Posted by Sophie Brickman Purpose: Demonstrate how to use technology to improve and expand your dishes Techniques: Vacuum-infusion, Distillation, Carbonation, Hydrocolloids, Low-Temperature Cooking, Liquid Nitrogen Menu Deep-fried scrapple w/ maple-infused cabbage, sauerkraut, and 62°C poached quail egg Mokume-gane fish with liquid-nitrogen-powdered dill crème fraîche, pressure-cooked mustard seed, pumpernickel toast, Aleppo oil-infused apple and cabbage salad […]

Sous-Vide Intensive

Posted by Mindy Lvoff Nils and Dave teach three Advanced Studies courses at The FCI: Hydrocolloids, Harold McGee Lecture Series, and the first class of 2009—Sous-Vide. The two-day Sous-Vide Intensive covers the “what” and history of low temperature and sous-vide cooking (read on for more on why they’re not synonymous), and then spends the majority […]

Good Old Rib-Sticking Eggplant Parm–with Tech

Posted by Dave Arnold At the FCI we constantly hammer home that technology isn’t only for cutting-edge food. New techniques are just as helpful with old-style comfort food. My wife wanted eggplant parm for Mother’s Day. Eggplant is notorious for becoming greasy. It is a sponge. I used our vacuum machine to make it better. […]