Session 1 from the Chef's Roll Anti-Convention: Catalyst 2019Inside any piece of food, there's eight "mother" Ingredients (proteins, water, minerals, etc), and each of them has a personality of things it does and doesn't do. That handful of patterns explains everything that happens in any dish, regardless of style or skill level. With an understanding of an ingredient's core components (Ingredients with a capital "I"), chefs can get more mileage out of everything from a knife or spoon to the newest cutting-edge equipment.Rather than address every recipe and technique individually, chasing details around forever, we can simplify, connecting the dots between techniques and stripping them down to a couple of basic patterns. This session is meant to give you heightened intuition and reflexes rather than equations and stuff to memorize.Ali Bouzari, culinary scientist, author, and educator will turn European butter into a Swiss army knife to walk us through the ultimate Catalyst: understanding the science of how Ingredients work. He will be aided by Chefs Jamie Simpson and David Skinner.
