The Food Lab

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What if you could EAT SCIENCE? Well, good news ... you CAN! Let us show you the menu!

The Food Lab is a six-episode series based on the explosively popular column by J. Kenji López-Alt at Serious Eats, the internet home of all things delicious. Kenji is joined on the show by intrepid video journalist and food enthusiast Katie Quinn.

Together, Kenji and Katie explore and explain the sometimes complicated scientific principles behind everyday cooking—and how you can use science to cook better (and eat better). For example, why are there so many hurtful myths about properly cooking steak? Do you know how many emulsions you ate this week? Is there anything more complicated than cookie chemistry? And just what the heck is the Maillard reaction?

But more than just learning fun facts, you'll leave each episode of the Food Lab armed with useful techniques and tips for improving your eating, your way. Once you get the science, cook up your own new ideas. And you can even eat the failed experiments! Well, most of the time ...

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Episodes will be released in pairs, starting in July 2015, and climaxing in September with the release of The Food Lab book from WW Norton.

[CompoundInterest-SG]

Can't wait for Kenji's book. That guy is the real deal. He knows how to prove which techniques and recipes are the best. He doesn't just mindlessly repeat whatever "top-chefs", restaurants, the cookbooks, your grandma or whoever tells you are the best.

I am not sure about this show though. That trailer seemed a bit cheesy. But if it carries over Kenji's method, I guess I am for it.

[ZimFreak]

When I saw J. Kenji on video again I got so happy! He writes the best articles on the site and I can't wait to see the rest of these.

[patriciamurray]

When i was on your website I looked at your pictures and went i know her qkatie I am subscribed to her channel! So I was looking forward to seeing what it was all about. How exciting!

[threemedia]

Ehh this video made me a bit nervous. I love Jenj's Food Lab blog posts and totally think that a video series would be really successful, but this first video suggests otherwise :/. The acting was mediocre at best and your pitch was very condescending. You don't have to tell us what Food Lab is not, if anything that just made me think that's what you WILL do. If its going to be about science just talk about the science, the people who are going to be watching your show will be smart! Nobody wants to hear "We can help you do it better" (implying that what I'm doing right now isn't good enough), just say we will show you new, outside the box techniques using science. 

Your blog always came off as an interesting mix of Alton Brown's Good Eats and Mythbusters and I hope that's the vibe I get from your new show.

DON'T FUCK THIS UP. PLS