Cocoa butter can set in several different ways, and only one of them produces chocolate that behaves the way people expect. Almost everything below follows from that. Here are fifteen.…
Dry heat does two things to spices, nuts and seeds: it releases what was locked inside them and it creates compounds that were never there. Here are fifteen.
1. Moisture…
There is a useful question to ask about any everyday object: what did people do before it, and did they think they had a problem?
For most tools the answer…
The problem is almost never a lack of good places. It is deciding between them while hungry, which is the worst possible condition for the task. Here are ten.
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Texture is not a minor component of eating. It is perceived through an entirely different set of senses from flavour, and it decides more about whether something is acceptable than…
The number on the dial describes the air. What actually cooks the food is a combination of that air, the surfaces radiating at it and whatever it is sitting on…