With Contemporary culinary trends module we used various techniques to understand the contemporary approach to cooking including , emulsifying , foams , gelling , low temperature cooking , spherification , thickening , dehydration, freezing compression and smoking .
The ingredients used in the modern kitchen to create modernist dishes include , Agar , carrageenan , gelatin , lecithin,sodium alginate , Xanthan gum , calcium , gellan , dry ice and liquid nitrogen .The understanding of safety issues is vital with these ingredients .
For a full list of my portfolio which contains ingredients, method of work and costing’s please follow the link Contemporary Culinary Trends 2015