Molecular Gastronomy - Surprise bubbles - Billes Surprises

[tanczosandras]

What-the-fuck is this shit..

[YourSarcasmHere]

these look too good to eat D:

[sbhuiyan]

Wow!! Amazing!!! I am going to go to the supermarket and get a can of chef boyardee. That is also chemical cooking only on a massive scale. This is science not food folks. Jamie Oliver.

[monkfan72]

That's gonna stain.

[Searchworlds]

You Cook in flower pots. hahaha! I laugh every time I see it xD

[MrMCFC1993]

I've just bought your kit, and was thinking of doing something for sushi with it. Would doing this with soy sauce work? Also could you recommend doing anything with wasabi using the products the the kit that i have.

Thanks

[theozbloke2]

yes its a lot of fun got my fix today

[lardass73]

Do you put them in your butt?

[Schwingenschleogl]

0_o

[Dominikmj]

The process is called reverse spherification!

No - it won't taste that good. Another problem is, that the outer layer is quite unpleasant rubbery - and while the bursting is cool, it remains in your mouth.

But it is just a cool demonstration - you can do it with other things as easy as you could do it with lemon water.

My trouble is the food coloring. I am absolutely against artificial colors - especially if it comes to fine dining [and all these molecular gastronomy things are].

[MusicAdict1234]

@Dominikmj the entire recipe is artificial :)

[Dominikmj]

@MusicAdict1234

I don't see it like that-the calcium is just a normal mineral, which is not much different than sodium-chloride [your sea salt]; the alginate is made of algae- at the end its not so different from your agar-agar- lets face it, we have so many derivatives in the food industry- something like those ingredients can be seen as "normal"; at the end it is avant-garde cuisine.

You could use beet juice, or mint, or saffron to color. I think artificial color should be banned out of food!

[Neoflix1999]

Do we have to freeze the solution or can we just drop it in the sodium alginate?

[Dominikmj]

@Neoflix1999 you don't need to freeze the solution - but then you have to make spherification not reverse spherification, which results into a more dense and rubbery internal texture. Alginate water is too thick, to make proper liquid raviolos. I tried it and the only way is to freeze it [you can make Red Bull spheres as well...].

[SuperCrazyIdiot]

to answer your description in this video...

"who said it was impossible to spherify lemon juice?"

i answer that with.... nobody said it to begin with?

[ghidfg]

lol if the inside was more thick it would look just like a egg yolk

[ENJOYMADEWITHLOVE]

Wow! Great video! And as a MIXOLOGY lover, I find this a very interesting trick. Can it be done with other liquids than lemon juice?

[myaclick]

so it's lemon water shaped into a colored sack........wtf is happening to cooking. I thought it was taste first THEN presentation

[MoleculeRflavors]

@myaclick It is true that this is more an experiment in texture than taste. It is tons of fun nonetheless! :-)

[roggies2008]

@myaclick Never heard of "you eat with your eyes first?" it's always been like that. You probably wouldn't eat a something that looked off even if it tasted better than one that didn't.

[myaclick]

@roggies2008 i worked at 2 different molecular gastronomy restaurants. one of them is ridiculous like this youtube page here. (food tasted a whole lot like nothing and looked like alien life forms).... but the other restaurant I worked at during my internship was just beautiful how they used real ingredients and combined molecular with real food maintaining the food's integrity.

[Okiimiru]

Does it taste good? I wish they would demonstrate how to eat one.

[MoleculeRflavors]

@Okiimiru It does taste good! And I guess there could be several ways of eating it, but my favorite would be to eat it all at once so it bursts in your mouth!

[pentatonicblues]

@MoleculeRflavors Perhaps its me but i really cannot imagine that pure lemon juice treated with chemicals suddenly tastes nice.. This looks cool but must be pretty horrible to eat

[amakurai]

mind F-ed XD

[andiar]

My kitchen looks like that when i cook - immaculate surfaces, no dirty utensils in sight.

[MsPhynex]

So this is edible?

[MoleculeRflavors]

@MsPhynex Most definitely!

[Nannedu4O]

et aprés? .. c'est bien joli mais ça s'mange? NAZ

[MoleculeRflavors]

@Nannedu4O Mais certainement, ça se mange! Et c'est même délicieux! :-)

[emiakatricl99]

can i eat this..?



[TheVGAddict]

I attempted this with the kit I got for christmas, I failed.

[MoleculeRflavors]

@TheVGAddict We've tested all our recipes many times. It works. Just make sure you follow the recipe.

[9thstreet]

How long are the sodium alginate/calcium lactate baths good for? Can I keep them refrigerated and use repeatedly over the course of a few days? Does it lose it's effectiveness as you make stuff? eg. is it only good for, say, 50 bubbles (arbitrary number) and then it loses it's spherification abilities, or can you keep using it until it runs out?  I have a few Christmas parties this weekend that I'd like to take my kit to, and it seems wasteful make new baths every time I want to make stuff.

[MoleculeRflavors]

@9thstreet If you store your bath in a closed container (tupperware) in your fridge, you may re-use a calcium or alginate bath for several days (I would go up to a week).

[lamodette1]

tres sexy ouah ha

[andrefrferreira]

are those materials expensive?

[MoleculeRflavors]

@andrefrferreira Not at all! And it's all available on m o l e c u l e - r [dot] c o m.

[sahilharjani]

how much sodium alginate do you put??

[MoleculeRflavors]

@sahilharjani 1 of our sodium alginate sachets = 2 grams.

[sahilharjani]

@MoleculeRflavors what about the calcium lactate powder sachet? how much comes in 1 sachet?

[MoleculeRflavors]

@sahilharjani 1 of our calcium lactate sachet = 5 grams. But mind that we do not need a full sachet for this recipe...

[MacMalte]

looks like medicine :-P

[vicozar]

Calcium lactate is the same than calcic?

[MoleculeRflavors]

@vicozar "Calcic" is actually the name under which another brand sells calcium lactate. So yes, same product!

[MoleculeRflavors]

@WannaBeNoteee sure, it's lemon juice, and it taste like lemon juice!

[thebadpoet]

So . . . The surprise comes when you expect a sweet dessert flavor and are met with pure lemon juice?

[MoleculeRflavors]

@thebadpoet ...and also that for a long time, molecular cooking experts though is was impossible to spherify an acid solution like lemon juice... It's MOLECULE-R that invented the frozen reverse spherification method!

[ChaosButterfly8]

¤° ¤° ¤° ¤°

[dyndor]

Very pretty. Where would you use these bubbles?

[MoleculeRflavors]

@dyndor I would use them in a cocktail (tequila shot, margarita, fancy martini... anything with lemon juice)

[TheVGAddict]

soon.

[subpolarity]

yumm

[PKCube]

whats the lactate for?

[MoleculeRflavors]

@PKCube ... the lactate is what's gonna react with the alginate from the bath to create the gel membrane around the liquid, hense the spheres.

[jabnael]

I thought you were supposed to dump the sodium alginate solution in the calcium bath, not the other way around.

[MoleculeRflavors]

@jabnael it's the difference between basic spherification and reverse spherification...

[luchoryan]

where I find the ice tray???

[MoleculeRflavors]

@luchoryan Silicon Moulds are available on our website: molecule-r(dot)com/en/tools/44­-silicon-mould.html

[FGEGSFG]

quel est le goût de ces choses?

[MoleculeRflavors]

@FGEGSFG Celui du jus de citron!

[hovavlandoy]

i really wona know what is this great music? can u tell me please?

[longliveslf]

JELLO SHOTS

[1109yury]

ES FANTASTIGO GRACIAS

[powmful]

@MoleculeRflavors

Could you ship to Greenland, is that possible for you guys?

[MoleculeRflavors]

@powmful We ship worlwide!

[SAACAAS]

Ferran Adriá

[ChipKoekjes]

like the idea.. but the bitten nails... eww.

[TRAViiEZA]

where can i get calcium lactate in USA

??

[MoleculeRflavors]

@TRAViiEZA It's available in sachets or in a 1-pound can on m o l e c u l e - r [dot] co m. We ship worldwide.

[charlesmonsoon]

@TRAViiEZA lol u sed lactate.

[TRAViiEZA]

@charlesmonsoon if Im not wrong i think thats how u call it calcium lactatel

[TRAViiEZA]

where can i get calcium lactate in USA

??

[tjfoxxxx]

Made with lime juice, these would go perfect with a gin and tonic.

[alltheheavens]

this might be a stupid question , but this is sure not poisonous ?

[MoleculeRflavors]

@alltheheavens Sure isn't! What's more, it's delicious.

[lHenry97]

Can i use any other juice, like orange, mango, and apple?

[lietomebones3]

@MoleculeRflavors what type of blender did you use for the sodium alginate bath, and is it fine to use a hand mixer that the metal whisk that rotates?

[hq0013]

These lemon juice spheres (or even the balsamic ones) how long will they hold their shape? Can we make ahead of time or must we serve immediately?

[MoleculeRflavors]

@hq0013 You should serve them as soon as they're ready!

[MoleculeRflavors]

@hq0013 We strongly suggest you serve all of our recipes as soon as they're ready to preserve the textures at their best.

[Zdrastvooy]

This is simply a fun way of presenting food in a different. Those that make the SAME OLD BORING JOKE of "don't bother, go eat some real food" need to open their minds because it's only trying to be fun. You don't like it, fine, move on, those that do like it enjoy! You have an open mind!

[malkoitrek]

This is a fantastic recipe, but how can eat this? i have this problem XD

[irobot2k]

Is this safe to eat all these food additives?

[loko95ftp]

i like food

[daffydii0]

So all there really is inside is lemon juice. I guess molecular gastronomy is more about texture.

[turgore]

have fun getting cancer from all the additive coloring. do yourself a favor and eat real food.

[SetiFur]

@turgore You could just not use the food coloring you know.

[JoseyWales47]

Would this be the same with Pineapple?

[Kittycutie44]

Wow! This is awesome... I swear, when I'm an adult, I'm going to order one of these kits and will constantly be serving my friends and family weird things like this...

[MoleculeRflavors]

of course! It's basically lime juice.

[IamMDYC]

...This are edible right?

[greensoul]

this is exactly how china make fake eggs

[MoleculeRflavors]

Hi moomoo52355,

You can find some is Kitchenware retailer like Stokes or Z'axe.

[moomoo52355]

where can i get the white things that u put them in cos i really want some

[MoleculeRflavors]

This is the only way to spherify acidic liquids...

[ShatterEffectt]

@MoleculeRflavors i've spherified mango juice which is acidic

[manzarekcode87]

iLike your techniques, i'm impressed and i'm gonna study gastronomy so i'm fascinated with this.