Why Chefs Need Hackerspaces

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Food hacker, n: A curious person who loves to discover and create awesome food, and seeks the knowledge and intuition to come up with new and clever food ideas.

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It’s a great time to be a chef. I love food and love to cook, and in recent years I’ve become fascinated by all the cooking techniques and equipment that have become popular in restaurants and accessible even to home cooks. Sous vide machines that used to belong to high-end chemistry labs now cost less than stand mixers and have become increasingly commonplace in home kitchens. At the other end, classic, artisanal techniques, like bean-to-bar chocolate-making that used to belong to the expert few, can now be learned by anyone willing to plow through YouTube videos, long blog articles, and online forums.

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