 Dan Barber asked why are we growing this type of wheat when possibly we should be growing a different type of wheat that has a better Nutritive value Dave Chang said why are we afraid of using MSG if maybe MSG isn't so bad for us? these these questions are Important the asking why is important. We had questions. We had questions ourselves about why we were cooking a certain way and Might there be a better way and I believe that the answer is yes a more informed way of cooking But it turned out that a lot of these answers Are likely not to be found only in the kitchen We realized we're gonna have to go elsewhere for answers because the traditional answers from the kitchen About why we're cooking the way we were we're not always satisfactory. Well, so our search has brought us out of the kitchen Two events like this To meet equally curious people It's also forced us to think a bit about What's really involved in cooking what what's happening while you're cooking all these things? What's happening while you're cutting and roasting and boiling and brazing and poaching? What are you actually doing? Well, it turns out that Involves a fair bit of science specifically some physics some biology and Some chemistry and so we we really Realized that we were gonna have to develop relationships with other people from other disciplines We were gonna have to Not only talk to our fellow chefs who were like minded and curious But we're gonna have to go outside of our industry talk to food scientists Talk to commercial food manufacturers commercial food processors. We realized we'd have to talk to authors of Course there's hailed McGee, but then there's there's Chris young You know the brilliant Scientists behind the modernist cuisine book But who's been involved in helping chefs for years and years and years says our Vega some of you here may know says are Say it's our knows more about eggs than anybody I've ever met and and the beauty of all this information is that That while it's completely objective But what any one of us chooses to do with that information will always be subjective Meaning there will never be a universal way of cooking, but the information is always going to be universally useful And that's an important thing to realize that everybody is going to benefit in this way from this information and Understanding why you're doing something is an important aspect of doing it. Well If you can know the reasons that you're doing something you can make really sound decisions But the individual still plays the most important role in the cooking process There will never be a right way to poach an egg But there will always be a more or less informed way to poach an egg