Sometimes a tweak will give you an obvious win, but sometimes you’ll get a batch that feels like a loss on every front. Texture is wrong, flavor is wrong, and the process notes aren’t giving you much to work with.…
A chaotic practice habit in food technology when your life is busy, is to work for an hour, then wait three or four days to practice again and do just enough to try to recall what you did last time.…
Texture is the first indication that something isn’t going well with your formulation, often before you can say that flavor is perfectly balanced. A sauce can taste great, but still feel too thin. A cake can smell amazing, but crumble…
A good first trial in food tech should feel contained. Most people do the opposite. They select some complex product with a lot of degrees of freedom, change five parameters at once, and then can’t tell if the product fell…