{"id":7792,"date":"2012-12-19T08:34:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T15:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=7792"},"modified":"2013-02-08T18:24:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T01:24:38","slug":"the-science-of-good-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/the-science-of-good-cooking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Good Cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve learned more about cooking from this hefty volume than from reading or watching anything else.<\/p>\n<p>There are other fine books about the science of cooking, including Harold McGee&#8217;s previously reviewed classic <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/on-food-and-coo\/\">On Food and Cooking<\/a>, but this big book is by far the most practical and helpful. While McGee&#8217;s is authoritative and complete, this one is better organized for your average cook. The science is condensed into 50 principles, and each easy-to-remember principle is illustrated by half a dozen tested recipes. If you can master these 50 you&#8217;ll have the equivalent of a culinary degree.<\/p>\n<p>An example of a principle would be: Salting vegetables removes liquid. You&#8217;ll hear the evidence why this is true, what difference it makes in dishes, and how to apply it to any recipe in the future. Every claim is tested by experiments run by the nerd chefs at Cook&#8217;s Illustrated, so that you have full command of the idea and its exceptions. Although this book is jam packed with &#8220;best recipes&#8221; this is not a traditional cookbook: it is more of a cooking course. The teaching is a model of clarity and insight.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basic principles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[176],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7792"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9993,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions\/9993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}