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You’ve seen them around—waiting for the elusive email from El Bulli, snatching up tableware designed for Alinea, and ordering food-grade sodium alginate. They’re the fans of molecular gastronomy—mad scientists...

Actually as per Midwest molecular gastronomy, Chef Neal Brown has been incorporating foams and anti-griddle work at L’Explorateur in Indianapolis for several years now. And I loved his sweetbreads with bone marrow ice cream...

some frozen elements where it seems as if Achatz could have used an anti-griddle, but in the book they’re put on sheets and put in the freezer. There’s very little foam and a lot of gelatin. That’s a quick...

Has anyone tried a PolyScience 7306C Thermal Circulator? Expensive ($950) toy but it sure sounds like fun. http://www.chow.com/stories/10145 http://www.cuisinetechnology.com/thermal-circulators.html They’ve also got an "...

plastic tub as a $1 extra. I had the naked steak sandwich with the whiz. I forget if the traditional whiz wit should include cheese too. Anyway, the sandwich was very tasty, hot off the griddle, beefy and oniony and not too grisly...

and some toy work (e.g. smoke gun, anti-griddle) during my last meal a few months back. Guess it depends on what you’re in the mood for, but I wouldn’t say no to either. Better chances for parking at Madre though...

desert course (the chocolate bars). I felt that Cora’s was just slopped together since she was trying to do too much for originality points (liquid nitrogen and an anti-griddle?). Her sous could not handle everything and...