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Salty, sweet, sour, bitter and umami are five taste elements that form our perception of flavour.   A perfectly balanced dish can elevate a dining experience, and mastering it involves understanding the elements thoroughly combined with other methods.  How do...

Some foods, when tasted, can be easily distinctly identified either as sweet, salty, sour or bitter.   However, some excellent tasting food is harder to describe. They are simply robust and delicious and leave you wanting more. And this is how we relate to the...

A Chef's task in cooking is to capture their intent flavour profile by balancing the different flavours of ingredients they have.   Of course, Chefs have the prerogative to be aggressive with their predominant flavour if that is what they truly want, but a...

In cooking, achieving a well-balanced synergy of flavours involves a Chef's knowledge of what food items or chemical compounds affect the sour notes of a dish.   Sourness, or tartness, is the taste that detects the presence of acids in our foods brought on by...

In cooking, achieving a well-balanced synergy of flavours involves a Chef’s knowledge of what food items or chemical compounds affect the sense of the sweetness of a dish.   Sweetness is produced by the presence of sugars, some proteins and a few other substances...

It is a universal knowledge that the process of cooking food involves the act of tasting to suit the desired flavour.   It is a much-desired chef skill to achieve a balanced flavour when cooking dishes, regardless of the cuisine. And rightly so, because it is a...

It would seem that the amount of heat in the kitchen serves as a deterrent for chefs to keep long hairstyles, but it proves to be not enough. In reality, many chefs sport long hair and beards.   But is sporting long hair and beards truly acceptable for chefs in...

Taste is the perception and experience of flavour. To a chef, this is the most critical sense concerning food appreciation.   Our taste buds or receptor cells bind with molecules from the consumed food or drink and send signals to our brain. How our brains...

FIFO (fly-in-fly-out) is a popular working arrangement in the mining, construction, and oil and gas industries. FIFO work is becoming a viable option to bring construction and mining employees to remote areas rich in natural resources.   Chefs are needed for such...

The shortage of hospitality venues staff all over Australia continues.   A recent article from The Sydney Morning Herald talked about the current hiring moves of hospitality venues to address staffing shortages by shipping in workers from overseas. While this is...