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Star Chiefs –The Cocktail Demo with Recipes

September 29th, 2010 · 11 Comments · Chocolate, Clarification, Puffed Snack, Tech Demo, Uncategorized, centrifuge, cocktails, liquid nitrogen, rotovap, vacuum infusion

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 reach); [...]

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Boring but useful technical post: vacuum machines affect the texture of your meat.

June 17th, 2009 · 35 Comments · vacuum infusion

posted by Dave Arnold

Sous-Vide cooking is any cooking that involves a vacuum bag (as opposed to low temperature cooking, which is all about temperature control, and doesn’t necessarily involve a vacuum). For a post on our sous-vide class, see here. Soon (i.e., if we ever get around to it) we hope to post a sous-vide/low [...]

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Vacuum-infusion for the home cook

June 2nd, 2009 · 16 Comments · vacuum infusion

Posted by Mindy Lvoff
Let’s say, like most of us here, you want to vacuum-infuse at home but don’t have a full vacuum. Dave and team have come up with two solutions for you:
1) Syringe-vacuum
Get yourself a 50cc syringe with a cap vs. needle. Place what you want to infuse into the chamber with the liquid [...]

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