Cooking for engineers

[AnotherFairportfan]

That's all i'm gonna tell ya. Find out for yourselves.

[Dave]

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[AnotherFairportfan]

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Just worked for me. Try again.

[MerchManDan]

Some yummy-looking recipes, but I'm not 100% certain why it's geared toward engineers. These look usable by anybody who's able to read & has access to the necessary equipment & ingredients.

EDIT!! Never mind, found this.

About the name: Cooking For Engineers
Michael selected the name "Cooking For Engineers" on a whim. He has no idea if it means "To cook for the purposes of providing engineers with food" or "To instruct engineers in the science and art of cooking". He likes the ambiguity, and other people seem to find the name intriguing and even interesting. He regrets that the name can be misread (when in a rush) to be "Cooking Foreigners".

[shadowinthelight]

"Cooking Foreigners"

So, it's an ultra-nationalist culinary site?

[Catawampus]

These look usable by anybody who's able to read & has access to the necessary equipment & ingredients.

Ah, but a true engineer doesn't need access to blenders or ovens or mixers: he or she will simply design and build the perfect equipment for the job, from scratch!

[AnotherFairportfan]

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[Dave]

These look usable by anybody who's able to read & has access to the necessary equipment & ingredients.

Ah, but a true engineer doesn't need access to blenders or ovens or mixers: he or she will simply design and build the perfect equipment for the job, from scratch!

It's not really an true engineer doing the cooking, unless s/he uses a home-built cyclotron to create an electron beam to brown the meringue.

[Hansontoons]

These look usable by anybody who's able to read & has access to the necessary equipment & ingredients.

Ah, but a true engineer doesn't need access to blenders or ovens or mixers: he or she will simply design and build the perfect equipment for the job, from scratch!

It's not really an true engineer doing the cooking, unless s/he uses a home-built cyclotron to create an electron beam to brown the meringue.

Sounds like my daughter. Mechanical Engineer, Texas A&M Class of 2009.

[AnotherFairportfan]

These look usable by anybody who's able to read & has access to the necessary equipment & ingredients.

Ah, but a true engineer doesn't need access to blenders or ovens or mixers: he or she will simply design and build the perfect equipment for the job, from scratch!

It's not really an true engineer doing the cooking, unless s/he uses a home-built cyclotron to create an electron beam to brown the meringue.

Heh - reminds me of a quote from Shadow of Saganami:

"Marines are adaptable," she replied. "They improvise and overcome when faced with unexpected obstacles. Just treat it like something minor—like storming a dug-in ceramacrete bunker armed with nothing but a butter knife clenched between your manly teeth—and I'm sure a tough, experienced Marine like you can pull it off."

"Hah! What kind of wuss Marine needs a butter knife to take one miserable bunker?" Gutierrez demanded with a resonant chuckle. "That's why God gave us teeth and fingernails!"

[Grantwhy]

Cooking?

It's just simple chemistry

what's worrying is the person saying that is a mad scientist


On the other hand, I'm still impressed that I recently learnt how to make real poached eggs (as opposed to using the microwave on low power to make 'mock' poached eggs )

[Catawampus]

On the other hand, I'm still impressed that I recently learnt how to make real poached eggs (as opposed to using the microwave on low power to make 'mock' poached eggs )

I always found building a functional chicken to be the trickiest part of that.

[Dave]

On the other hand, I'm still impressed that I recently learnt how to make real poached eggs (as opposed to using the microwave on low power to make 'mock' poached eggs )

I always found building a functional chicken to be the trickiest part of that.

It's actually easier if you omit some of the classic "simplifying assumptions". You don't have to require that the chicken be spherical, or of uniform density.

[Catawampus]

You don't have to require that the chicken be spherical, or of uniform density.

But then it won't match my cows and balrogs.

[ActionKermit]

This site has some great advice. A while back my brother accidentally started a canola-oil fire in a cast-iron pan, and once we put the fire out (no damage to anything), the oil had turned into a kind of viscous black tar that was so sticky it took half an hour to clean off our hands with pumice soap. The cooking for engineers site helped us get it out of the pan by recommending that we boil white-wine vinegar in the pan and scraping it off with a spatula, which worked like a charm.

[GlytchMeister]

Wow,this site is perfect for me. There's even a little conversion box near the top. The recipes are done like a technical manual. They have little trivia bits too.

This is awesome. Bookmarked.