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The Food Lab — J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

958 pages of science-driven cooking. Every recipe tells you why, not just how.

The Food Lab treats cooking like a science experiment, and the result is a 958-page arsenal of techniques you'll use forever. Kenji Lopez-Alt uses data and experimentation to explain why reverse-searing a steak beats traditional pan-searing—namely, by lowering the temperature gradient for more even doneness. This turned a generation of kitchen nerds into confident experimenters.

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