The How Not To Cookbook — Lessons learned the hard way
Alexandra Mill - The How Not To Cookbook
Lessons learned the hard way
Publisher: Collective Gallery, Edinburgh | Number Of Pages: 321 | Publication Date: autumn 2009 | ISBN-10: 978-3-86895-032-8 | PDF | 15 Mb
Lessons learned the hard way
Publisher: Collective Gallery, Edinburgh | Number Of Pages: 321 | Publication Date: autumn 2009 | ISBN-10: 978-3-86895-032-8 | PDF | 15 Mb
While the typical cookbook format gives you a recipe for obvious success it does not take into account the many ways in which its execution can fail due to the cook's lack of experience. Based on Aleksandra's personal history of cooking disasters, the project invites 1000 people from all around the world to give their advice of how NOT to cook. With this volume, any reader will be more than well equipped to avoid making the same mistakes in their kitchen.
Aleksandra is interested in how we are taught or teach ourselves through trial and error. By making our guilty failures public we may even be creating an original and subversive form of art, rather than simply be aspiring to obvious and repetitive results.
When you have accidentally added washing-up
liquid to your salad instead of oil, do not attempt to
wash it out and serve it to your children. They will
be able to tell the difference. Even the teenagers.
When making coconut cake, do not leave
out the coconut.
If you have got a shockingly short attention span,
do not think that burning things has to be the norm.
Buy a timer, one that you cannot accidentally turn off
when you put it in your pocket.
If you need to taste something that is caramelizing,
think twice before you dip your finger into it.
If you pyrolyse oils, you have just created a goopy black carcinogen.
Do not try to save it. Throw the whole thing away
or pay later on down the line.
If you stir something with a metal implement,
never leave it in the pot while it is on the heat.
If you do, make sure you use oven gloves to touch it.
Never EVER try to figure out if you turned on the
hotplate by laying your hand on it. The police may
wonder why you do not have fingerprints
anymore.
On Sunday morning, do not try and pry out that yummy
little piece of toast from the toaster using
the butter knife. You could end up toasted yourself.
Only cook Turducken outdoors with plenty of space
to run if the huge pot of oil is somehow knocked over,
spilled or splashed. It would be a nasty burn!
When cooking polenta, stir, but do not boil.
Polenta bubbles splash and burn when they burst.
etc.
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The How Not To Cookbook — Lessons learned the hard way
