A few weeks ago I received an e-mail from a dude named Jethro that was addressed to me and Scott from (Seattle Food Geek). Jethro asked us if we knew if there was a club or group of people that would like to do experiments with food.  Who the hell knows…..let’s start one, is the conclusion we came to.

Tonight was our first meeting. I felt like I was going to a dungeons and dragons meet up but instead of thousand sided dice and more pimples than I know what to do with I brought as many books, equipment, and cool ingredients  as I could possibly carry over to Jethro’s house.  After lugging around 50+ lbs. of books I said, “alright meeting is my place next time….haha”. Get back on track….

So we met up and I am happy to report that I have found another group of people that have a crazy addiction for food just like me.

Our first experiment was a spherification of rootbeer (pictured above).  It took a little work but we got to a few shapes we were looking for.  Now we have to focus on flavor, thickness of sphere, and if we need to introduce flavoring components to give us a much more intense rootbeer flavor.

Next up was a spherification of blueberry juice. We fooled around with it a little bit and finally find what we were looking for.

We were missing a few key pieces of equipment but I think the next time we meet up we’ll have that addressed.  This is extremely exciting for all three of us.  I think there is a lot bad press with this type of cooking but really at the end of the day it’s about fun. Each little sphere that came out was like receiving a Christmas present.  Now we just have to make those little Christmas presents taste good.

Even if we have a bunch of failure we still have a cool name:   Jet City Gastrophysics.

Eric

I would go into more detail about what we did but the first rule about food science club is that there is no food science club.

Rootbeer noodle……