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Food sketches

Explore sketches, drawings, and illustrations that simplify ideas related to Food.

Kawaii examples - the Japanese culture of cute explained with lots of cute sushi with adorable facesKawaiiThe magic of open-air kitchens for Asian street food shown calling out each aspect that makes it such an ingenious set upThe street food open-air kitchenHara Hachi Bu meaning summary showing a person, perhaps in Okinawa Japan, declining food at 80% fullHara Hachi BuCake wreck: a cake where instructions for the cake—"Happy birthday in purple, no nuts"—have been smartly written across the front. Intended as a metaphor for literal misinterpretation.Cake wreckThe tomato slicing test to see if you need to sharpen your knife. A knife running over the surface of a tomato followed by a disaster needing sharpening or some perfect precise slicesThe tomato testPeeling away the intent and subtlety behind what seems a simple metric. Next to an onion.The metrics onionWhat is the difference between traditional Stock, Broth and Jus explained: a large cooking pot of water has bones thrown in to make Stock. A second pot has meat added to water to make Broth. The cooking tray used to roast a chicken is tipped up to pour out the Jus, made from pan drippings. Stock, Broth, JusDeseed a Pomegranate illustration: this 5-stage process shows how to separate the seeds from within a pomegranate using the back of a spoon and a bowl of water. Deseed a pomegranateStop chopping board slipping illustration: a tea towel is made damp at the sink in a kitchen. The damp tea towel is then laid out underneath the copping board. And hey-presto, the chopping board doesn't slip around as our chef happily chops their carrots. Stop chopping board slipEgg test: how to use the egg float test to know if an egg has gone bad by checking it's floating behavior underwaterThe Egg Float TestFruit vs vegetable drawing: showing the elements of a plant that are fruit or vegetable and a 2x2 matrix for which are commonly miscategorisedFruit vs vegetableThe hungry gap illustration showing a timeline with a full box of Winter vegetables leading out of April, a nearly empty box in May, and an overflowing one in the SummerThe Hungry GapCompose a cheeseboard illustration: a delicious-looking platter is presented with a wide selection of cheeses; soft, hard, round, blue-veined and riddled with holes. In amongst the cheeses we find a colourful range of items to complement flavours; olives, nuts, pickles, cured meats and dried fruit. Compose a cheeseboardPour, don't dip when sharing snacks illustration: on the left the snack sharer seems sad that their friend has plunged their hand into their open snack packet. On the right, they're a lot happier to share by pouring snacks from the packet into their friend's open hand. Pour, don’t dip when sharing snacksCrossmodal perception illustration showing that coffee tastes better when the machine is quiet and why plane food is less tastyCrossmodal perceptionTame unruly crisp packets illustration: a 7-step process lays out exactly how to fold a large, unruly, empty crisp packet into a neat, manageable triangle. Origami with purpose. Tame unruly crisp packetsFreeze lemons and limesSet your table in time-honoured positions.Don’t cut the nose off brieCream tea: Cornwall vs DevonScoville scale: chile heat via capsaicin contentSleepy foodsWhat’s the difference between mandarins, clementines, satsumas and tangerines?De-seed pomegranates in a bowl of waterCuts of beefCooking at altitudeUse serrated knives for foods with a hard outside and soft insideHedgehog a mangoOpen bananas like a monkeyMetaphors for ideasThe law of diminishing browniesRoll limes before squeezing and you’ll get more juiceIf its not good enough for bugs, it’s not good enough for youGelato, sorbet and ice-creamUse crushed garlic and ginger in most of your cookingRules of thumb for cooking steakTrim beans in one cut through the packetEat food. Not too much. Mostly plants3 Miscellaneous cooking tipsPortemanteau food examples: tofurkey, turducken, cambozolaPortemanteau foodWrap cheese in paper towel to reduce mouldWhen combining cereals, layer milk-resistant cereals at the bottomShop healthyMarshal frozen peas and suchCook rice like a proBuy half-price stilton after ChristmasTwist your spaghettiCut an onion into teeny piecesCook delicious, yummy, Thai curryMake Vietnamese coffeeRemove troublesome lidsThe Wayne's World pizza of jalapeño, anchovy and bananaMake a Wayne’s World pizzaVisual recipe for poaching an egg in the microwavePoach an egg in the microwaveCooking is bucket science
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