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After hearing Cooking for Geeks author Jeff Potter talk about the "coolest geek toy ever" in the kitchen (an infrared thermometer) on Science Friday with Ira Flatow (listen to the show or read a trans...
For his recently released book, Cooking for Geeks, author Jeff Potter interviewed prominent researchers, food scientists, knife experts, chefs, writers, and more, including author Harold McGee, TV per...
The following is an excerpt from the book Cooking for Geeks. Below it gives some tips on how to properly calibrate and prepare your oven so that it performs in a reliable manner.
One piece of equipmen...
The excerpt from Cooking for Geeks is part of an interview with Brian Wansink. Brian's book, Mindless Eating (Bantam), examines how we make our choices about how much and what kinds of foods we ea...