Events/Food Hacking

Who

• Tom Wyatt
• Monty
• Heather
• martind -- I'll just watch while you people get your hands full of meat glue.
• People.

What

Toys

• Vacuum chamber
  • Cold coffee vacuum extraction
  • Vacuum infusion - lime juice, sugar, and gin into cucumbers Dave Arnold (1h 18m 50s)
• Whipped cream whipper + N20
• Carbonator
• Liquid nitrogen
• Dry ice
• Sou Vide cooker
• Make a Handheld Smoker? http://www.russums-shop.co.uk/equipment-c98/pans-cookware-c153/polyscience-the-smoking-gun-hand-held-food-smoker-p4278 I have apple trees that need trimming if we need applewood for smoking chips.

Food

• mobius pizza
  • i've got plans for this - tomw
• Freeze dried icecream
• Michelangelo’s Pizza Taste Test
• Miracle Fruit Party
• Bacon Cupcakes
• Cucumber flavoured taffy/chewy candy like starburst/opal fruits
• Dragons Beard Candy
  • Dave Arnold's video tutorial
• FIZZY FRUIT! (dry ice inna box with some fruit. Should probably look this up a bit more...)
• Homemade Aero Chocolate (Vac Bag + shallow food container with pinhole in it + nitrous whipper prewarmed + melted chocolate and work quickly)
• oils + maltodextrin = Flavour Powders http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/10/pepperoni-powder-recipe.html
• Fancy Pretty Chocolate colouring with natural stuff http://eyecandy.nanakaze.net/?p=385&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eyecandyfoodblog+%28Eye+Candy+Food+Blog%29

Drinks

• Dry Lemonade Powder http://chestofbooks.com/food/beverages/Liquors-Wines-Cordials/Bottling-Fermented-Liquids-Continued.html
  • We could technically make ANY weird-ass beverage if we used drops of organic food-grade essential oils like this http://www.nhrorganicoils.com/products.php?category_id=754
• OpenCola

Cocktails

• infuse gin into cucumbers
• Bloody Mary Tomatoes (vodka tomatoes) Clare's mentioned she's made these before? Also recipe in one of the Stefan Gates books
• make carbonated gin
• infuse coffee and vodka
• trial run tomw's creation?
  • the software is pretty much ready, we'd need about 10 ingredients to run it at the moment.

Sites

• Historical Context and Demos Illustrating the Relationship of Food and Science | Lecture 1
• Cooking Issues - Dave Arnold's blog.

Inspirations

• Stefan Gates does cool stuff. http://www.thegastronaut.com/ (and http://www.thegastronaut.com/index/Shop_2.html for "food kits") He's also vaguely local to the area and we might be able to convince him to come around and do some cool demos? Or help us source things at the very least...
• Heston Blumenthal

When

Sometime.

Where

Hackspace.