SCS 054 | Large Party Entertaining, Creative Flavor Structures, & Learning Food Science - Your Cooking Questions Answered
Release Date: 10/10/2018
SCS 075 | Choosing Knives, Grills, BBQs & Smokers!
Stella Culinary School
Chef Jacob walks you through how to pick out the knives you really need, and what to consider when shopping for a Grill, BBQ or Smoker!
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SCS 074 | Hydrocolloids - A Practical Approach
Stella Culinary School
Chef Jacob breaks down the most common hydrocolloids that cooks can use to solve problems in the home and professional kitchen alike.
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SCS 073 | Greek Salad Challenge, Dissecting A Dish's Flavor Structure, & Searing Scallops
Stella Culinary School
In this episode, I lay out the "Greek Salad Challenge" as a homework assignment. The purpose of this challenge is to drill knife skills, and work on creating baseline seasonings through balancing fat, acid and salt. We then carry this concept over into a lesson on how I would recreate the flavor of a hollandaise sauce if all I had was a recipe and had never tasted hollandaise before. This first principals approach to dissecting a dish through flavor structure will allow you to understand and replicate flavor structures at their most basic level. Then, I walk you through yet un-edited footage...
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SCS 072 | Acing A Chef Tryout & Banquet Style Execution
Stella Culinary School
How to slay it on a chef's exam for a job interview and nailing large parties like a pro.
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SCS 071 | Leaving Your Career for Chefdom, Food Safety, How Fat Affects Bread Dough
Stella Culinary School
Chef Jacob discusses leaving your current career to become a chef, potential safety issues with re-heating & holding food, and how fat affects bread dough.
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SCS 070 | Combi Ovens for Precision Cooking, Execution, and Holding
Stella Culinary School
Chef Jacob walks you through using a combi oven's precision steam control to perfectly cook, hold and execute any number of foods.
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SCS 069 | Prepping for Execution, Designing Balanced Menus, Live Listener Discussion
Stella Culinary School
We discuss prepping for successful execution, how chefs design and balance their menus, and some live listener questions answered.
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SCS 068 | Gnocchi by Feel + Anova Combi-Oven Review
Stella Culinary School
Chef Jacob walks you through how to make gnocchi without a recipe, and reviews the new Anova Combi-Oven.
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SCS 067 | Food Writers Are Parasites + Tender Stir Fried Meats!
Stella Culinary School
This episode goes off the rails quite a bit, but still turned out great, which I know you expect nothing less. We really hit our flow about 28 minutes in, once I figured out that the comments, ONCE AGAIN, were not loading properly! In this episode, we talk: About crypto currencies and how it will affect restaurant profit margins in the future. The biggest mistake people make when designing their home kitchens. How to create juicy, tender meats for stir fries. Why we use oils when sweating aromatics. Why I would never do a cooking competition. And finally, why I think food writers are...
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SCS 066 | Why Grandma's Beef Stroganoff Sucked!
Stella Culinary School
Why grandma's beef stroganoff was never that good, pressure cooked ribs test one, culinary rules you break, and the thermal tenderness curve!
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In this episode, more listener questions and voicemails answered. Some sample questions include:
Crispy Skin question from Philip
"OK, it’s time to squash this once and for all one way or the other. The question is: ‘Does salt draw out moisture from a protein product’? I always hear people saying to rub salt on the skin of a protein product to draw out moisture in order to crisp up the skin. The most recent example was yesterday when I watched a video of a chef cooking pork belly. The skin on pork was quite thick and I began to wonder how exactly the salt can draw out moisture from within the skin. I could see how it would absorb moisture that was already on the surface because the salt would be making contact with it but how could it be possible to draw moisture from within the skin? Is this just a myth (which is widely believed even by some of the best chefs in the world) or is there some truth to is. Unless the salt is acting like some kind of magnet on the water and pulling it out of the skin I really can’t see how it could work. Are there any science food geeks that can explain exactly how the salt works please? Also, I would love to hear your opinion on this Chef Jacob, Thanks"
Creative Flavors from Vicky
"i’d like to know how chefs come up with (especially unusual/modern) flavour combinations… like, i’d never have thought of combining chilies and chocolate, wouldn’t ever even imagine those would go together, if i hadn’t tried chocolate bar with chilies. or, like, the dishes in fancy restaurants (e.g. fat duck, noma) or on tv cooking competition shows (e.g. uk master chef) have like 19 thousand elements (like 5 dots of whatever reduction and half a teaspoon of whatever foam)… how the hell do they come up with the idea of putting all those seemingly unrelated things on the same plate?
My question to you:
in the video i watched, you mentioned that almost all dishes need a bit of acid. and when i think about all the recipes i’ve seen/read, it’s true that a lot of them call for just a tad of vinegar or lemon juice, in such a small amount that one wouldn’t actually taste it when eating the finished product. it’s something i’ve never thought of doing. what does a tiny amount of acid do to the overall taste of a dish? why is it important? what sort of dishes wouldn’t need acid and what sort of dishes benefit the most from it (besides obviously sour tasting dishes)?"
We also answer voicemail questions from Eric, Robert, Andrew, Juan, Shmilie, Leslie & Melva. Thanks to everyone for calling in.