Bachelor Geeks!: Cooking for Geeks

"If you’re the curious type who asks why just as often as what, my book, “Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food” will show you how to use science when working in the kitchen." -- Jeff Potter

Make ice cream in 30 seconds, cook food in the dishwasher, learn the technical term for the browning of the turkey skin.* Have you ever wanted to hack your oven to cook at 900 degrees (it makes a great brick oven style pizza). Do you wonder what chemical reactions cause stewed meat to become so tender? Then Jeff Potter has a book for you.

Cooking for Geeks doesn't just give geek-worthy recipes -- it explains why things work the way they do, and even better, lets you hack kitchen appliances to do what they were never meant to do. What could be better than that?

Want to sample the craziness before buying the book? Then check out Jeff's Blog, and see what he has to say. Fun stuff!

*Maillard reaction

GEEK from Wikipedia

The word geek is a slang term, with different meanings ranging from "a computer expert or enthusiast" to "a carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts", with a general pejorative meaning of "a peculiar or otherwise dislikable person, esp[ecially] one who is perceived to be overly intellectual".^[1]

This word comes from English dialect geek, geck: fool, freak; from Low German geck, from Middle Low German. The root geck still survives in Dutch and Afrikaans gek: crazy, as well as some German dialects, and in the Alsatian word Gickeleshut: geek's hat, used in carnivals.^[2]

Formerly, in 18th century Austria-Hungary, Gecken were freaks shown by some circuses. In 19th century, in North-America, the term geek referred to a freak in circus side-shows. In some cases, its performance included biting the head off a live chicken. The 1976 edition of the American Heritage Dictionary included only the definition regarding geek shows.

Although often considered as a pejorative, the term is also often used self-referentially without malice or as a source of pride - an example is the 'Geek Squad' of the Best Buy company.

^ "Dictionary: Geek". Dictionary.com-Merriam-Webster entry. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/geek. Retrieved 2007-10-12.
^ French Wikipedia Geek Article

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