Domestic science: A recipe for modernist cooking

Modernist Cuisine at Home, released this week, is the sixth culinary volume from the former chief technology officer of Microsoft, and brings modernist techniques to a wider audience of amateur cooks.

Equipment once available only to professional chefs or scientists is now being manufactured for the home kitchen. The 456-page book is designed to educate readers about cooking technologies as well as helping them to recreate everyday dishes using equipment such as a regular picnic cooler, oven grill tray or blow torch.

Recipes include striped mushroom omelette, poached salmon cooked in a kitchen sink and the Modernist hamburger, created sous-vide and served with a pressure-cooked, caramelised tomato sauce.

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