One of the most frequent questions we get is why, even with a recipe, doesn’t food at home taste like it does in the restaurant? There are numerous reasons and few of them have anything to do with the skill of the home chef.
Restaurants have a significant advantage over the gourmet home chef. The pitfalls for duplicating restaurant recipes are;
- restaurants cook at much higher temperatures than most homes can achieve consistently.
- ingredients purchased at grocery stores are rarely the quality available to foodservice establishments.
- when things go wrong, professional chefs know how to correct or recover from mistakes.
- many ingredients may sit for long periods of time in the store or at home and affect the end result due to the lack of freshness.
- bakers use much different flour and yeast combinations that are available to the average consumer.
The next time you are trying to duplicate a restaurant recipe, keep these factors in mind. You may get a little closer to the original dish. If you want to see some of the resources that restaurants use, you can visit this site for browsing links to professional information.
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