I’m not going to lie. I don’t cook a lot. I can, but I just don’t enjoy it. I think it’s more the prep work and cleaning up. I’m fine with the eating part of it. But I CAN cook. It’s not that I can’t, it’s that I don’t.
But then I got Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food by Jeff Potter. Aside from being full of great recipes, it’s a great read. Why? Because it explains cooking to those folks who are, let’s say, geeks.
The book contains the following chapters:
1. Hello, Kitchen!
2. Initializing the Kitchen
3. Choosing your Inputs: Flavors and Ingredients
4. Time and temperature: Cooking’s Primary Variables
5. Air: Baking’s Key Variable
6. Playing with Chemicals
7. Fun With Hardware
Got your attention yet? If these in depth chapters detailing kitchen tools, baking times and temperatures, and food additives don’t grab your attention, then some of the mouth watering recipes definitely will. Each chapter has recipes that relate to the topic of the chapter. Some of my favorites include Slow-Cooked Short Ribs, Grilled Sweet Potato Fries, Gingerbread Cookies, and Buttermilk Pancakes.
The truth of the matter is that I might not be geeky ENOUGH to really appreciate this cookbook. But, if you have someone in your life who is (or if it’s actually YOU!) this would be a perfect gift.
The book retails for $34.99 and is published by O’Reilly.
I received a copy of this book for review purposes.
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I have been wanting this book! I knew I saw it somewhere…must have been VIP. I think it would be cool to learn all the behind the science stuff to cooking because I LOVE to cook but am not good at just throwing things together or experimenting.
It definitely has a TON of science stuff and is really educational! I’m horrible at experimenting, too!
It sounds very Alton Brown!
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