A gellification how-to by Lee De Velez

1. What the gels!
A gellification how-to

2. This is Lee De Velez

4. And he’s VERY clumsy in the
kitchen.

5. Lee’s kitchen resume
Prone to breaking glasses and plates
Once broke a mortar with a pestle
Detaches handles of mugs and pots without knowing it
Countless burns
Scorched body hair of a housemate when working with the oven
Caused havoc in TriNoma by dropping a newly bought bottle of balsamic vinegar

6. Lee could be an
entertaining
contestant in
Hell’s Kitchen

7. So why did Lee decide to work
in the kitchen for Tech?

8. Because he brims of
PASSION
🍗🍛🍲

9. And here is his story:

10. Balsamic vinegar pearls
Balsamic vinegar is usually
used in salad dressings
braised dishes, and
marinades.

11. Balsamic vinegar pearls
But with an additional
component, such as agar agar,
you can give the liquid a
whole new texture and
appearance.

12. To make the pearls, bring the balsamic
vinegar and gulaman powder to a boil.
(Lee was not sure if the powder was the
same as agar agar)
Collect the mixture through a syringe
and slowly pump it drop by drop into a
glass of cold plive oil. The balsamic
vinegar will begin to shape.

13. The pearls look good! Lee couldn’t have been
more proud of himself, especially on his first
tries.

14. Lee always gets somehing
wrong the first time,
however.

15. The balsamic vinegar didn’t yield 100% pearls.
This clump right here is a result of piping too
much vinegar in oil at once.

16. The pearls also had leaked when washing them.
Probably because I used gulaman powder instead
of the prescribed agar agar.

17. But because he brims of
PASSION
🍗🍛🍲
He tried four more times

18. Meanwhile, he was tryig out
another recipe...

19. Fruit spaghetti
Do fruits bore you?
Do their textures bother you?
Fear not! With agar agar, you
can make your fruits more
playful. Even kids will love
them!

20. First trial was an apple-mango blend. It looks
green because I accidentally under ripe fruits.

21. To make the spaghetti, collect the mixture in a
syringe and pipe it through a tube to cool in iced
water. Lee didn’t follow instructions, as usual.

22. Blended a can of fruit cocktail for a dominatly
orange blend. Followed the instructions this time.
Once you pipe the tube you get:

23. WOW! Amazing! Looks
like spaghetti.
Until it fell into the sink
before he got to taste. Lee
still is clumsy.

24. After sometime, Lee thought
of a cool idea (or at least, it
was cool in his mind).

25. Why not make a reversed
spaghetti?
Sauce becomes the pasta (thru
gellification)
Pasta becomes the sauce

26. Looking good! Tomatoes seem to hold its shape,
though some strands were too short.

27. Pasta is made out of flour, egg, and salt.
Lee wanted to make white sauce out of
the ingredients stated, plus milk and
pepper.

28. But put Lee and “cook”
together and you get:

29. A weird combination of semi-solid tomato sauce
and a clumpy white sauce. Not for the
fainthearted.

30. After a week of reflection about whether or not he
should really be a cook, he tried to make some
more fruit spaghetti. These are the best ones yet.

31. These are firm, colorful and flavorful enough for
free tastes!

32. So did Lee succeed? Let’s find
out.

33. Caprese salad
Ingredients:
Tomates
-cherry
-salad
-local (pictured)
Cheese
-Kesong puti
-Cream cheese
-Parmesan (pictured)
Balsamic vinegar pearls

34. Fruit salad spaghetti
Ingredients:
Your favorite fruits in
spaghetti form

35. If there is any recipe you want
to try, just try it!

36. Be like Lee.
BeLEEve in yourself!!!