If you love technology, then you can easily learn to love cooking at home. Cooking already appeals to a lot of chemistry nerds. After all, what is cooking other than an edible form of chemistry?
As more companies have made gadgets for home kitchens, tech geeks should find themselves increasingly interested in cooking. You can start your culinary adventure with these five types of kitchen technologies.
Get Tips from Experienced Cooks and Chefs Online
7 Free Tutorials on How to Cook Practically Anything
There are hundreds of websites that promise to help home chefs improve their skills. Honestly, not all of them are great. A handful, however, are so good that you should read them regularly. These are the sites where experienced cooks want to share their tips with home chefs.
Some of the most useful websites include:
Since many postings on these sites include videos that show you every step of recipes and cooking techniques, you will want a computer with a fairly large display. Lenovo has affordable laptops, there are plenty affordable laptops with full HD displays. They’re also lightweight, so you can carry them around the kitchen while you cook.
Find Apps and Blogs That Teach You Essential Skills
20 Essential Cooking Lessons That Teach You New Skills
Even if you don’t know much (or anything) about cooking, there are apps and blogs that will teach you the fundamental skills that you need to start cooking great food at home. Do you want to learn how to plan a menu? MealBoard can help. Do you want to learn the perfect temperature for grilling steak? The Weber blog is there for you.
Mobile apps have become so popular in recent years that most celebrity chefs and cookbook publishers have apps so they can connect with their fans. Whether you want to make the perfect pancake or you want to learn how to clean a fish, there are apps that will guide you through the process.
Tools for Molecular Gastronomy
Molecule-R Chefs Starter Kit
Molecular gastronomy is one of the most complicated areas of cooking. It takes a radically new approach to preparing food which involves very specific tools and instructions.
A lot of home chefs will feel intimidated by the tools needed for molecular gastronomy. A true geek, however, will quickly fall in love.
Liquid nitrogen is one of the most common tools used in molecular gastronomy. That may surprise you, but consider the advantages of using liquid nitrogen instead of ice or a freezer. Liquid nitrogen is so cold that you can briefly freeze alcohol.
It also freezes solids so you can grind them in interesting ways. If you try to grind peanuts at room temperature, you get a thick form of peanut butter. If you grind peanuts that have been frozen by liquid nitrogen, though, they turn into a powder.
Advanced Gadgets for the Home
Nomiku’s immersion circulator
Top chefs know that good food isn’t an accident. It often requires specific temperatures that remain steady over long periods of time. You can’t do that with a pot of boiling water. There are simply too many variables for you to keep the temperature stable. With an immersion circulator, though, you have complete control over water temperatures. That lets you make perfect dishes with relative ease.
Supermechanical Aqua Range Smart Thermometer with 6-Inch Round Tip
A range thermometer can also make you more successful in the kitchen, since you will always know exactly how hot your grill or oven is. You can even submerge them in water, milk, and other liquids to read the temperature. That comes in handy when making cheese at home.
You can go as high-tech as you want with thermometers. You will probably want to skip the analog versions in favor of digital designs. Some of them will even send alerts to your mobile device.
Smart Appliances
Connected cooking: The best smart kitchen devices and appliances
Smart appliances are an obvious way to get technology geeks interested in cooking. Companies have significantly improved smart appliances over the last decade. Today, you can preheat your oven as you drive home from work. You can even install a refrigerator that will tell you when you start to run low on staple ingredients.
Those are cool features that anyone would enjoy.
Now that American kitchens have become more tech-savvy, it seems likely that geeks will take a greater interest in cooking. Even if they never master the craft, at least they will have fun learning.
