From America’s Test Kitchen, the process is called spherification. It’s what chef’s in trendy restaurants do to jazz up their dishes, and you can do it at home!
Doesn’t this look like fun? Just the thing for a snow day with the kids. If you have the following items in your pantry, and a few kitchen utensils, you are all set:
Gelatin
Salt
Vegetable Oil
Ice and water are also needed, but that shouldn’t be a problem.
A full list of the requirements and the steps required, can be found HERE.



Here’s my new favorite YouTube person doing the same thing, but using agar instead of gelatin:
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This is awesome!
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Look like caviar…do they come in beluga flavor?
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Thank heaven they moved away from that irritating use of liquid nitrogen as a preparatory agent and condiment.
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And no, I wouldn’t consider dropping the edible spheres into liquid nitrogen for more ‘BAM!’.
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Sort of looks like caviar! Very decorative, and a tasty kind of weird.
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These are fascinating! I’ve seen these on youtube. What a fun post 🙂 Thanks
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