A New Blog is Found

I found a great new blog called Playing with Fire and Water. I’m not sure who the blogger is since her about page doesn’t actually say anything about her. No matter. She has been doing some interesting things with methylcellulose and posted a great summary on its uses and properties —

playing with fire and water: methylcellulose primer

Something I have been wanting to try with methocel is making a foam and freezing it. About a year ago when I was graduating from ICE and looking for my externship, I trailed a couple nights with Jordan Kahn when he was at the short-lived restaurant, Varietal. I remember him making a foam, I’m pretty sure he used methocel, and then trying to freeze it. The foam didn’t hold up to freezing and easily collapsed. He was undeterred though and tried adding white chocolate and cocoa butter (either or both, I can’t exactly remember). The addition of this made a foam that was stable upon freezing thanks to the rigidity of the cocoa butter. I haven’t purchased any methocel yet to give this a try myself, though it is definitely on my list.

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