Modernist Cooking Made Easy

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Explore Our Modernist Recipes
We have you covered with all your molecular gastronomy recipe needs, from complete dishes to individual components. We are always adding new modernist recipes for many techniques and ingredients.
Modernist Ingredients Explained
Over 20 in-depth guides to modernist ingredients and how they are used.

Modernist Ingredients Explained
In-depth guides to many of the most popular modernist ingredients including soy lecithin, agar agar, xanthan gum, methylcellulose, carrageenan, and many more! Learn when to use them and how much!
Modernist Equipment Reviews
Become familiar with the tools used in modernist cooking.

Modernist Equipment Reviews and Guides
We cover the most popular modernist equipment used, from whisks and scales to whipping siphons and juicers. Learn what tools are required and which are just "nice to have."
Learn Modernist Techniques
We've got you covered from spherification to creating foams.

Learning Modernist Techniques is Easy
Our easy-to-follow articles explain how the most popular techniques work, what ingredients and equipment is used, and has links to sample recipes so you can start cooking right away!
Getting Started
Interested in modernist cooking but don't know where to start?

Modernist Cooking Made Easy: Getting Started
Our book provides all the information you need to get to get started with modernist cooking. It is presented in an easy to follow format, with more than 80 recipes, that can be applied immediately in your kitchen.

New to Modernist Cooking?

Here are some items to get you started with modernist cooking and molecular gastronomy.

Our comprehensive guide to getting started with modernist cooking. It comes as a paperback or Kindle book and contains more than 80 modernist recipes and an in-depth look at many modernist techniques and ingredients.

Modernist Techniques and Ingredients

If you are just starting out you can read our in-depth modernist technique guides to learn the basics. We also have extensive modernist ingredient guides that explore the individual ingredients.

Modernist Cooking Forums

If you have questions about getting started you can ask them in our forums and have other passionate cooks answer them.

Modernist Recipes and Dishes

We have you covered with all your molecular gastronomy recipe needs, from complete dishes to individual components. We are also adding more modernist recipes all the time covering a wide range of techniques and ingredients.

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How-To Answer: Cooking times in recipes

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How-To Answer: Grill Marks

Observation: fading of grill marks occurs during a sous vide water bath. Observation: the loss of flavor and aroma from grilling is more profound than the visual appearance. T...

How-To Answer: Brine, cook then freeze? Or brine, freeze then cook?

At the molecular level, freezing creates water crystals that penetrate cell walls. Depending on the cut of meat this might result in serious tenderizing or serious drying of th...

How-To Answer: Imparting Flavor

Hmmmmm. I've had small cooking bags overpowered by a clove of fresh garlic only once -- because I am a quick learner. Once you've had a cut of meat overpowered by a single leaf...

How-To Answer: Ziploc® Brand Vacuum Freezer Bags

I used to use ZipLok sandwich bags for chicken breasts, hamburger patties, and pork chops (boneless) but I had a few that failed to hold a seal and filled with water from the wa...

How-To Answer: Starting Sous Vide with Pork Belly

For me, pork belly means crispy bacon, which isn't exactly a sous vide technique. But I'd expect many hours at 71C would essentially melt away most of the fat leaving a leaner ...

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Modernist Cooking and Molecular Gastronomy Tips and Tricks for Home Cooks

Modernist Techniques

In modernist cooking and molecular gastronomy there are several techniques that are commonly used. We go into them here and show you how to use them to make modernist cooking easy for you.

Photo Gallery from Modernist Cooking Made Easy

Here are full color copies of all the images from our Modernist Cooking Made Easy: Getting Started book. They should give you a good idea of what we cover in the book.

Modernist Ingredients

There are many modernist ingredients and we will try to cover how many of them work.

Modernist Equipment

Modernist cooking can use a wide variety of equipment and tools. Many of them have very specific uses and are only used for advanced techniques. We want to focus on the more accessible equipment, most of which can be used in traditional cooking as well.

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Modernist Cooking Made Easy: Getting Started

We have put together a 240 page book that covers many of the modernist techniques and ingredients needed to get started with modernist cooking and molecular gastronomy.

Learn all about spherification, gelling, emulsions, sous vide, and thickening as well as many popular modernist ingredients like agar agar, xanthan gum, sodium alginate, tapioca maltodextrin and more in our easy to understand guide!

Charcuterie

Charcuterie might be a very old technique but fully understanding it and the products it can produce can help even the most modern of cooks.

Media and News

If you are interested in what Modernist Cooking Made Easy is up to then you can check out our media and press releases.

Molecular Gastronomy Glossary

When learning modernist cooking there are many words that you can come across that are new to you. Our glossary can help you figure out the meaning of many of them.

Modernist Recipes

Here is our collection of modernist recipes. They will teach you a wide variety of modernist cooking methods. If you have any recipes you would like us to add please contact us and we will see what we can do.

Modernist Dishes

Sometimes it is easy to take a recipe for a foam, gel, or sphere and create a dish around it. Other times it can be helpful to see them used in completed dishes. Here are some of our favorite complete modernist dishes.

Modernist Cooking Forums

We know there is a large demand in the modernist cooking and molecular gastronomy communities for a place to get together and exchange ideas and expertise with other people passionate about modernist cooking. We've created these forums as a way to address that need.