Eggs bacon chips beans for the 21st century

21st century eggs, bacon, chips and beans Chris Heathcote interesting2007

Hello.
I like food.
A lot.
I want to make things taste better.
Some of this involves some chemistry.

(Western) food
We’ve conquered pretty much every taste from around the world.
We’ve pushed current techniques, textures and combinations as far as possible.
How can we make things taste more of themselves?

Deconstruction
We can deconstruct ingredients into flavours and textures.
Memories.
Some ingredients are about the idea or preparations behind it.

Reconstruction
Then we can put them together in new combinations.
Food = taste + texture + presentation.

An example

My notes.

Eggs
Eggs are difficult.
Hard to amplify the flavour, often used for texture changes.
(if anything, an egg yolk sauce).
But what about the idea of an egg?

Deconstructing eggs
Yolk, white, shell.
Raw, whipped whites, meringue, boiled, fried, poached, scrambled, omelette.

Cyberegg

El Bulli

Bacon
Bacon: Fat, protein.
Fried.

Bacon
Bacon powder, bacon jelly, bacon grease, bacon jam, bacon toast, bacon leather, bacon air, bacon crisp.

Powders
Fat + maltodextrin.
Ground crispy bacon.

Chips
Taste: potato, fat. Texture: crispy/fluffy.

Potato
Potato bread, pommes puree, potato crisp, fried potato slice, mash, potato foam.

Foams
Dairy + liquid + Nitrous oxide = foam.

Beans
Beans meanz Heinz.
(I don’t really like beans).
Where is the taste? Mainly in the juice. (it tastes of tomato soup).

Spherification
Invented by the food processing industry.
Discovered by Ferran Adria.
Calcium salt + sodium alginate = jelly.

Inverse spherification
Flavoured liquid + calcium gluconate and calcium lactate + xanthan gum.
Bath of water + sodium alginate + sodium citrate.
“ Poach”.

Reconstructed EBCB
Potato “white” + baked bean “yolk”.
Bacon “salt and pepper”.

Forkbot & thanks
Me: chris@ anti-mega .com
Food: forkbot.org (soon, soon)
Chemicals: texturas.com, infusions4chefs.co.uk
Books:
El Bulli cookbooks, Ferran Adria et al
Egg, Lyndsay & Patrick Mikanowski
Websites:
Hungry in Hogtown
Egullet
Ideas in Food

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