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Showerthought: I bought a $300 'molecular gastronomy' kit on a whim.
It was a big box of powders and tools that promised to change my plating. After three tries, I made some weird foams and gels that just melted on a warm plate. The whole thing is now in a cabinet, and I'm out the cash. Has anyone actually made those fancy spheres work on a real dinner service?
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wesleyburns2mo ago
Man, the real trick is the temperature of everything. Your plate, the food, even the room. Those gels are basically fancy Jell-O that hates heat. I kept a ceramic plate in the freezer for twenty minutes before trying to plate a sphere, and it bought me maybe ninety seconds before it wept all over the place. The whole process feels less like cooking and more like a lab experiment where you're racing against the clock.
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casey_ward512mo ago
Sounds like you're basically a mad scientist with a freezer full of plates instead of chemicals. Next you'll be plating with tweezers and a stopwatch. All that work for ninety seconds before it turns into a sad puddle on the plate. Might as well just eat it straight out of the mixing bowl and skip the fancy meltdown.
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