The Best Popover Recipe Ever
In this video I show my popover recipe that I created for a friend of mine and adapted for conventional, convection, and Rational iCombi ovens. This recipe is super easy to make with almost no tools needed, other than a popover pan (see below), and they are amazing. Your friends will think you’re a genius. […]
Culinology Certification Course

This is a 40-hour, self-paced course on Culinology (restaurant and commercial food production) that was created for the Research Chefs Association and the American Culinary Federation. It is designed for people who work with food professionallly, but home cooks and others interested in learning the science behind commercial food production will find it interesting and […]
Chocolate Ice Cream and Creami vs Pacojet Shootout
In this tutorial you’ll learn to make delicious, creamy chocolate ice cream and we’ll compare two blade-driven ice cream machines: the Ninja Creami and the Pacojet. Recipe Formula (Ingredients): 125g sugar20g malt powder37g Dutch-process cocoa powder (natural cocoa powder will also work)1.5g salt (anywhere between 1 – 2 grams is fine)1/8 tsp espresso powder 160g […]
ACF Food Science Course

This is a 40-hour, self-paced course on food science for food professionals, home cooks, scientists, non-scientists, or anyone who works with food and wants to understand what’s going on under the hood. The ACF food science course is available here. Overview This online course represents over a thousand hours of curriculum development, including many improvements […]
Caramel Ice Cream and Sugar Science

In this tutorial you’ll learn to make delicious, creamy caramel ice cream and also learn a bit about sugar science along the way. Recipe Formula (Ingredients): 100g water 165g sugar (sucrose) 510g 36% cream (see notes below) 170g 4% milk (whole milk) optional: 1 tsp vanilla extract or 1 vanilla bean (see notes) Notes on […]
Cooking Sugar Perfectly

Cooking sugar is a critical skill in baking, and it’s not hard to do if you just learn a few key food science facts about sugar and crystalization. Watch the video and then answer the questions in the quiz. Then go and cook some sugar! When we talk about “cooking sugar,” we can mean: * […]
Food Science Lectures
Note: This is a new class, and the lectures will be posted here as they are created. They should all be available by the end of June 2026. There are also two talks, an interview, and a lecture I gave at a college in Seattle (food molecules). 1: Intro & Heat 2: Water — (coming […]