{"id":144800,"date":"2021-07-11T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=144800"},"modified":"2023-03-30T16:23:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T02:23:47","slug":"weird-delicious-science-at-cip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/07\/11\/weird-delicious-science-at-cip\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird, delicious, science at the Culinary Institute of the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_94129\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UkEbrDmzlXM?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Weird, delicious, science at the Culinary Institute of the Pacific\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Fire, ice and smoke! No, it\u2019s not Eurovision. It\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/culinaryinstitute.hawaii.edu\/culinary-innovation-center\/\">Culinary Innovation Center<\/a> in the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\u2019s\">Hawai&#699;i\u2019s<\/span> Culinary Institute of the Pacific on Diamond Head, where students in the &ldquo;Food Science and Modernist Cuisine&rdquo; 300-level class master novel culinary techniques.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\"><figure id=\"attachment_144807\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144807\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kapiolani-cip-wierd-food-tamamoto-l-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"culinary instructor\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-144807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kapiolani-cip-wierd-food-tamamoto-l-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kapiolani-cip-wierd-food-tamamoto-l-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kapiolani-cip-wierd-food-tamamoto-l.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauren Tamamoto<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\"><figure id=\"attachment_144802\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144802\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kapiolani-cip-wierd-food-bumangang-s-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"culinary student\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-144802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kapiolani-cip-wierd-food-bumangang-s-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kapiolani-cip-wierd-food-bumangang-s-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kapiolani-cip-wierd-food-bumangang-s.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sierra Bumangang<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;I like to play and have the students play, experiment with different food-grade chemicals,&rdquo; explained instructor <strong>Lauren Tamamoto<\/strong>, coordinator of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College<\/a>\u2019s Culinary Innovation Center. &ldquo;There\u2019s a lot of trends out there with food, and we try to break it down and reverse engineer food items that are out there at restaurants.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Student <strong>Carson Yoshioka<\/strong> already planned to use the newly mastered &ldquo;meat glue&rdquo; technique, the transglutaminase-fusion of different proteins that produced a succulent medium-rare piece of beef with a savory filling, at his part-time job at Dean and Delucca.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My most valuable lesson that I learned in this class was working with new types of ingredients and chemicals,&rdquo; Yoshioka said. &ldquo;What I like about it is that when I come to class, I get to learn something new every day.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/07\/11\/culinary-institute-of-the-pacific-1m-new-gifts\/\">Culinary Institute of the Pacific advances with $1.1<abbr title=\"million\">M<\/abbr> in new gifts<\/a><br \/>&#8212;July 11, 2021<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Sierra Bumangang<\/strong> said her favorite new technique was spherification, making &ldquo;caviar&rdquo; or boba-type spheres of liquid out of everything from salad dressing to syrup toppings for ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This class shows unique things with different chemicals, so that\u2019s really fun,&rdquo; Bumangang said.<\/p>\n<p>What appeared to be smoke billowed out of the stainless steel mixer where student <strong>Michael Dunn<\/strong> had just added liquid nitrogen to cryogenically freeze ice cream. He had been visualizing a dessert of ice cream (made of rice), topped with balls of mango formed using the spherification technique.<\/p>\n<p>Dunn said, &ldquo;In the long, long, long-term, I would have my own pizza place or just bakery in general, just so I could test some weird ideas and concepts. Which is, by the way, part of the reason I like this class.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kapiolani-cip-wierd-food-dunn-dessert-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"dessert\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-144803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kapiolani-cip-wierd-food-dunn-dessert-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kapiolani-cip-wierd-food-dunn-dessert-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kapiolani-cip-wierd-food-dunn-dessert.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s exactly the attitude Tamamoto wants from her students.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I want them to have that desire to question, and to know and to experiment, and I want them to also know the science behind what they\u2019re doing,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I want them to be able to troubleshoot when they are out in the industry. I want them to be thinkers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Food Science and Modernist Cuisine&rdquo; is one of the 300-level courses required for an advanced professional certificate. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the course was substituted for 200-level internships, which were difficult to come by, so that students who were on track could meet their goals of graduating with their associate\u2019s degrees on time in spring 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Tamamoto said, &ldquo;If you like experimenting, you like science and culinary arts, this is the perfect class for you to take.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Abe Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_144804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144804\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kapiolani-cip-wierd-food-dunn-m.jpg\" alt=\"culinary student\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kapiolani-cip-wierd-food-dunn-m.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kapiolani-cip-wierd-food-dunn-m-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kapiolani-cip-wierd-food-dunn-m-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Dunn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students are encouraged to play and experiment in this culinary class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[184,181,63,71,56],"class_list":["post-144800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-culinary","tag-culinary-institute-of-the-pacific","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144800"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175052,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144800\/revisions\/175052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}