A Modern Super Bowl Sunday Is Nothing Without Puffed Cheese-Flavored Snacks
Modernist Cheese Puff Modernist CuisineThe creators of Modernist Cuisine are getting ready to watch the big game just like anybody else: infusing water with cheddar cheese, blending an emulsified...
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Modernist Cuisine at Home Pictured is "our fake home kitchen that we built in our photography studio, just down the hall from our research kitchen at The Cooking Lab," says Scott of Modernist Cuisine...
View ArticleMyhrvold Shows off His Pantry: "All Food Is Made of Chemicals"
The Modernist Cuisine Pantry Paul Adams Nathan Myhrvold knows that the work he and his Modernist Cuisine team do can be a little intimidating or frightening, but he's not going to stand for...
View ArticleMake Any Cheese Melt as Evenly and Perfectly as American Cheese
Perfectly Melty Modernist Cheese Modernist Cuisine We have a soft spot for American cheese, viewed in a hazy glow of nostalgia, but we wouldn't exactly call it "good" cheese. Or "cheese." Still, it...
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Salad cutaway Chris Hoover/ Modernist Cuisine It seems like just the other day that a 40-plus-pound set of books called Modernist Cuisine came out of Bellevue, Wash., and loudly impacted the world of...
View ArticleSciency Super Bowl Snacks: Modernist Seven-Layer Dip
Seven-Layer Dip Modernist Cuisine Johnny Zhu from the Modernist Cuisine kitchen shares a seasonal recipe. The layers are: pressure-cooked pork carnitas; pressure-cooked refried beans; cheese...
View ArticleWeekend Project: PopSci Takes a Home Kitchen Centrifuge For A Spin
As I may have mentioned, I have lately developed a bit of a thing for pea butter. Not some sort of pea-infused dairy butter, but the real deal, the pure green fat of tender…
View Article"Modernist Cuisine" Is Making a Splash
This week, if you've been watching television, you may have seen Dr. Nathan Myhrvold dipping his hand in liquid nitrogen on the Colbert Report or making a striped omelet on…
View ArticleSummer Grilling Tips from the Modernist Cuisine Team
Before Nathan Myhrvold published his six-volume culinary bombshell Modernist Cuisine, he got a doctorate in physics. Which he applies to the details of heat transfer in the…
View ArticleA Batch of Modernist Halloween Candy
For Halloween, Modernist Cuisine's Johnny Zhu and his young son teamed up to make olive-oil-flavored worm-shaped candies that wriggle in mounds of chocolate dirt. The gummy…
View ArticleA Modern Super Bowl Sunday Is Nothing Without Puffed Cheese-Flavored Snacks
The creators of Modernist Cuisine are getting ready to watch the big game just like anybody else: infusing water with cheddar cheese, blending an emulsified sauce with…
View Article"Modernist Cuisine at Home" Brings a Slightly-More-Affordable Version to the...
The groundbreaking Modernist Cuisine isn't exclusively for expert chefs, but the price and heft (~$450, extremely hefty) take it out of reach for most regular people. Enter…
View ArticleMyhrvold Shows off His Pantry: "All Food Is Made of Chemicals"
Nathan Myhrvold knows that the work he and his Modernist Cuisine team do can be a little intimidating or frightening, but he's not going to stand for misconceived…
View ArticleMake Any Cheese Melt as Evenly and Perfectly as American Cheese
We have a soft spot for American cheese, viewed in a hazy glow of nostalgia, but we wouldn't exactly call it "good" cheese. Or "cheese." Still, it has one major advantage…
View ArticleOut Today: 'Modernist Cuisine At Home,' Now Smaller And Cheaper
It seems like just the other day that a 40-plus-pound set of books called Modernist Cuisine came out of Bellevue, Wash., and loudly impacted the world of technically minded…
View ArticleSciency Super Bowl Snacks: Modernist Seven-Layer Dip
Johnny Zhu from the Modernist Cuisine kitchen shares a seasonal recipe. The layers are: pressure-cooked pork carnitas; pressure-cooked refried beans; cheese emulsified with…
View ArticleGravitational Waves Inspire 'Modernist' Chef Myhrvold To Make Soup Bowls
Space The iconic dual-swirl of black holes colliding is also ideal for soup The twin spiral grooves formed by the waves, Myhrvold perceived, could hold two different soups in the same bowl…
View Article"Modernist Cuisine" Is Making a Splash
Technology This week, if you've been watching television, you may have seen Dr. Nathan Myhrvold dipping his hand in liquid nitrogen on the Colbert Report or making a striped omelet on… This week, if...
View ArticleSummer Grilling Tips from the Modernist Cuisine Team
Science Before Nathan Myhrvold published his six-volume culinary bombshell Modernist Cuisine, he got a doctorate in physics. Which he applies to the details of heat transfer in the… Before Nathan...
View ArticleA Batch of Modernist Halloween Candy
Science For Halloween, Modernist Cuisine's Johnny Zhu and his young son teamed up to make olive-oil-flavored worm-shaped candies that wriggle in mounds of chocolate dirt. The gummy… For Halloween,...
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