Mad Genius Tips: Over 90 Expert Hacks and 100 Delicious Recipes

by Justin Chapple, The Editors of Food & Wine

Overview

The star of Food & Wine's Mad Genius video series shares his best kitchen tool hacks for creating easy, fun, and delicious recipes.

Did you know you can use a muffin tin to poach a dozen eggs at once? Or transform a Bundt pan into a rotisserie? Or truss a chicken with dental floss? Discover unexpected new uses for everyday tools, clever time-saving tips, and fantastic recipes in a cookbook that's as useful as it is entertaining.

Each of the 20 chapters is dedicated to a different tool, including resealable baggies, wine bottles and plastic takeout-container lids. With step-by-step "how-to" photography, Justin explains hacks for over 100 delicious dishes. An index organizes recipes by food category so readers can easily search for breakfasts, appetizers, entrees, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780848748425
Publisher:	TI Inc. Books
Publication date:	11/01/2016
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	979,529
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Justin Chapple is a Senior Test Kitchen Editor at FOOD & WINE and host of their award-winning video series, Mad Genius Tips. He's a graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New York City. Justin appears regularly on NBC's Today Show andhas appeared on The Meredith Vieira Show, FOX 5's Good Day NY and VH1's Big Morning Buzz Live, among others. Follow Justin on Instagram and Twitter: @justinchapple

Editorial Reviews

10/17/2016
Chapple, a senior editor at Food & Wine, brings his Web video series into print with a collection of 90 creative uses for everyday kitchen items, and 100 recipes in which to employ this hackery. The 20 chapters are arranged alphabetically by gadget, resulting in each section having an eclectic mix of foodstuffs. The cheesecloth chapter, for instance, includes instructions for making tea bags, roasting chipotle-butter turkey, and decorating Linzer cookies. Some of his suggestions are handy indeed: he gets a lot of mileage out of a baking rack, for example, using it as a chopper for both boiled eggs and avocados. A Bundt pan turns out to be perfect for roasting a chicken upright, with the juices flowing into a surrounding ring of vegetables. Other, more common, ideas include using a wine bottle as a meat pounder, a Ziploc bag as a piping tool, plastic lids to shape hamburger patties, and a pair of scissors to snip herbs. Some tips seem more trouble than they’re worth; why use expensive dental floss to truss a chicken? (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

"Chapple, a senior editor at Food & Wine, brings his Web video series into print with a collection of 90 creative uses for everyday kitchen items, and 100 recipes in which to employ this hackery.... Some of his suggestions are handy indeed: he gets a lot of mileage out of a baking rack, for example, using it as a chopper for both boiled eggs and avocados. A Bundt pan turns out to be perfect for roasting a chicken upright, with the juices flowing into a surrounding ring of vegetables."—Publishers Weekly

"Here are just some-can you believe it?-of the books we can't wait to get our hands on this fall.... Mad Genius Tips by Justin Chapple and the Editors of Food & Wine."—Food 52

From the Publisher

10/15/2016
In this spin-off of a Food & Wine video series, senior test kitchen editor Chapple's debut cookbook demonstrates how common household items—from plastic baggies to dental floss—can solve myriad cooking dilemmas. He uses a baking rack, for instance, to take the work out of skinning hazelnuts for a chocolate tart. In a bundt pan chapter, he demonstrates techniques for neatly slicing corn, roasting a chicken upright, baking an unconventionally shaped meatloaf, and freezing an ice ring for punch. Chapple's tips and shortcuts, grouped in 20 object-based chapters, will save time, money, and unnecessary trips to the store. His blend of everyday and entertaining-worthy dishes (e.g., PB&J overnight oats, miso chicken noodle cups) will satisfy a wide audience. VERDICT Even if you're familiar with some of these "hacks," Chapple's clever and cheerful offering will spark culinary inspiration.

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