Method
camping
Foil packets
One sealed pouch, one heat source: cut each ingredient to the speed it cooks, so everything finishes together and shares one sauce.
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Methods
A method is the pattern behind many dishes. A recipe is one specific dish; a method explains how that kind of food works, which variables matter, why each step is there, and how it fails, so you can cook something that isn’t written down anywhere on this site. A blueprint breaks one kind of food into its parts, each with its own method, and the builds that combine them.
Blueprints2
Burgers
5 parts · 11 builds
A burger is one or more patties, a bun, and toppings. These are the burgers I love.
One-pan pasta
4 parts · 2 builds
Pasta cooked in the pan it's sauced in, in just enough water to cover, so the water turns starchy and finishes the sauce the way a restaurant's pasta water does.
Techniques and ratios4
Method
stocks
Stock
One method for every stock: roast, extract, lift out the solids, reduce, strain. Only the extraction time changes, and the bones set it.
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Method
temperature
Reverse cooking: reverse sear and water frying
Most recipes brown first and cook through second. Reverse methods swap the order: cook gently first, then brown at the end. The gentle phase controls doneness; the hot phase is only for crust. Doing them in this order gives more even …
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Food ratios for creating your own recipes
Most recipes can be boiled down to a ratio of their ingredients. There is an interesting range for many ingredients, and in the tables below a tilde (~) denotes a moderate difference, and explicit ranges are given for ingredients that …
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