Seattle Food Geek

08/25/2022

I had a blast talking with Rachel Belle and playing with a little Modernist technique to make a culinary Rickroll!

🍤New Episode🍤

Rick Astley is 🎶 Never gonna give 🍤 up, 🍤 is never gonna let him down, 🍤 will never run around and desert him! 🎶

Listen in to hear more on ^^ Rick's last meal!

On this episode, we test this theory: Molecular gastronomy is the culinary equivalent of getting Rickrolled — you think you’re getting one thing and P**F! you get another!

Culinary technologist Seattle Food Geek is an expert at using modernist cooking techniques to make jokes using food. I hang out in his kitchen as he creates surprise & delight — check out my latest REEL on Instagram () to watch him make a watermelon sushi Rick Roll…with a delightful surprise at the end!

Listen where ever you get podcasts or at www.yourlastmealpodcast.com

12/07/2021

Making my morning latte in thermal vision

10/27/2021

01/31/2021

This is what happens when I get bored in quarantine.

10/11/2020

Thanks so much for having me on, Darrin! Fire & Water Cooking - The Fusion of Sous Vide and Barbecue

04/25/2020

Seen yesterday driving through Pioneer Square. Up and down First Ave businesses are boarded up. But many have been painted over with vibrant, heart wrenching murals. These pieces of public art will tell a vivid story to future generations.

04/20/2020

Tomorrow I'm presenting a live webcast with The Spoon. If you've had a product idea that you want to prototype but never new where to start, I've got some practical advice!
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/building-the-future/register

Register now for The Spoon's event on Crowdcast, scheduled to go live on Tuesday April 21, 2020 at 10:00 am PDT.

04/05/2020

, . That crumb, tho.

Dough by . Baked in the

03/29/2020

My baguette shaping skills leave room for improvement, but I'm pretty thrilled with this crumb structure.

Baked in the Precision Oven, steam + convection, on a .

Dough is my spin on 's variation on the Lahey no-knead. Mix everything together, put it in a sealed container in the fridge for 3 days. Divide, initial shape, 90 minutes counter proof, final shape, 30mins, bake.

The federal government is waiving all carbs for the next 90 days, so eat up.

03/20/2020

Our living room is alive with the sounds of ! Go to canlis.com/piano to follow their live stream and please tip the performers generously if you're able.

03/19/2020

02/12/2020

One time we built a Kingfisher camera trap.

This was one of the strangest projects I've worked on. The goal was to capture underwater photos of Blue Heron fishing. But we never got that picture. Instead, we captured hundreds of photos and hours of 1000fps video of Belted Kingfishers dive-bombing our automatic camera trap and escaping with fish.

We used a very sensitive light curtain to trigger the action. When the bird's beak crossed the plane of the water, we triggered the camera on a precise delay. To help see the action more clearly, we added a pair of high speed cameras on a circular buffer.

The project was a mix of engineering, luck, and battling the unforeseen complications of putting technology outside. But know I will recognize the hunting call of the Kingfisher forever.

02/11/2020

Q: How do you log data from tethered probes when your subject is constantly rotating?

A: Spin the computer!

Throwback to the time I built a data-logging vertical rotisserie from a patio heater and some 80/20 aluminum framing for w/ . I evaluated wireless thermocouple loggers, but they were expensive and had major limitations in sampling rate (they were too slow).

Instead, for $100, you can buy a full Windows PC on a stick and run it off a battery for hours! The top tray, shielded from the heat with a special coating, contains the data logger and a teeny little computer that spun around with the whole rig.

It revealed what we expected to see: the probe near the surface oscillated in temperature with the same period as the rotation speed. The middle probe had a similar pattern, but lower amplitude, and a gradual increase over time. The inner probe plots a slow, steady rise as the heat makes its way to the core of the meat.

01/31/2020

I'm still amazed by how the world looks at 12,000 frames per second.

W/ for

01/26/2020

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01/26/2020

Sous vide didn't just change my cooking, it changed the course of my professional life.

To celebrate International Sous Vide Day, here's a pic of one my most surreal sous vide moment: when my DIY machine appeared on The Simpsons!

(Top: still frame from the episode. Bottom: my DIY design)

01/26/2020

This is love right here. knows how to speak directly to my heart.

01/23/2020

Heading to at to speak for about technology as an artist's tool.

In this video, we used a scanning electron microscope to reveal the smallest structures within a tomato. Then, inspired by 's Woodswimmer, we shot a stop-motion sequence, cutting away a thin slice with every frame.

The video is just a concept exploration, but none of it would be possible without the technologies available to us at the lab.

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