Farewell to Hydrocolloids

Chef Alex Stupak’s Mexican food dreams.

Planters dry-roasted peanuts come in 3 flavors: unsalted, lightly salted, and salted. The salted has a ton of other junk (spices) added, and even the lightly salted has maltodextrin, cornstarch, and sorn syrup solids added. Why?...

Try processing it in the food processor with tapioca maltodextrin to make a smoked olive oil powder for use on everything from fish fillets to popcorn.

Usually just a mix of 60% olive oil to 40% tapioca maltodextrin. The tapioca malt breaks down fats and turns them into powder. Works with peanut butter, bacon fat (this is really good to sprinkle on eggs or an egg sandwich).

, Turmeric, Ginger, Parsley, Cardamon, Fernel, Chilli, Allspice, Bay, Black Pepper, Cassia, Nutmeg, Clove, Paprika), Dried Onion, Coconut Milk Powder (coconut, Maltodextrin, Milk Proteins), Mustard Flour, Salt, Tomato Powder,...

I’ve purchased from DCDuby; actually cheaper than some other places I’ve seen. Their maltodextrin is corn, not tapioca, so no powdered oils but the rest of it is about the same as others. They do not carry...

a Splenda-alike to me. It’s sucralose and maltodextrin, just like Splenda.

, or preservatives. Ingredients listed on the chicken stock: Chicken stock, natural flavor, maltodextrin (corn), chicken fat, sugar, salt, yeast extract, xanthan gum. Manufactured on equip shared with wheat, milk, eggs, soy,...

You have to dig around on their website to find it, but you can now see that their “tastes so natural” product contains additives including citric acid, maltodextrin, mono and di glycerides, sodium citrate, sodium...

You can also buy tapioca maltodextrin online and puree it in a food processor with any liquid fat such as rendered and clarified cheddar, flavored melted butter, spice infused oil and so on. If you read the ingredients on many...

://www.yum.com/nutrition/documents/tb_ingredient_statement.pdf Chili Beef, Water, Seasoning [Isolated Oat Product, Salt, Chili Pepper, Onion Powder, Tomato Powder, Oats,Lecithin, Toasted Onion Powder, Garlic Powder, Maltodextrin,...

juice, lemon oil, maltodextrin, Vitamin C)

sweetener allowed. I have seen honey powders in the past but they have always been mixed with dextrose or maltodextrin or other things that are not allowed on my diet. For me the benefit would be to use it in baking, both for...

, maltodextrin, natural flavorings and stabilizers, calcium, active yogurt cultures. Two points: 1) yes, I know that whey is derived from milk. It’s used to produce ricotta and other products. But since when is it used for...

I just got the Alinea cookbook and am excited to try some of the recipes, but it calls for some pretty strange ingredients — see http://www.postmodernpantry.com/wiki for a list. I particularly want to find tapioca...