Cooking with nitrogen - hot and cold delicacies

Austria: Nitrogen-grilled blini with Beluga caviar, raspberry meringue à la nitrogen served with a Bloody Mary Nitro… What may read like a banquet menu for the astronauts manning the international space station ISS, is in fact the latest fad consuming aficionados of so-called molecular cuisine - or cooking with nitrogen. Pushing the boundaries of the traditional art of cooking, the new wizards of molecular gastronomy must also combine a knowledge of chemistry, physics and science with their conventional culinary knowhow and experience. Accordingly, the technology transfer between cooking and biotechnology, allied to the chefs’ own creativity, enhances both flavour and pleasure, culminating in an explosion of the taste buds. With just a few ingredients, they can concoct a succulent array of astonishing culinary effects, in which the imagination knows no bounds: a frozen exterior surface with a temperature of minus 70°C, covering a rich warm filling of up to 20°C. These stark contrasts are possible in a single dish, combining to produce a truly spectacular, mouth-watering riot of different flavours. Similar delicacies were also being served up at the Catering Trade Fair “Everything for the Guest” held in Salzburg, at which both Messer and Austria’s celebrity chefs prepared culinary delights with liquid nitrogen before an astonished audience.

Messer Group GmbH
Vice President
Corporate Communications
Diana Buss
Gahlingspfad 31
47803 Krefeld

Phone: +49 (0) 2151 7811-251
Fax: +49 (0) 2151 7811-598
Email: diana.buss@messergroup.com
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Messer is a leading industrial gas enterprise with more than 60 companies operating in over 30 countries in Europe and Asia as well as in Peru, including non-consolidated companies. The international activities are headed from Frankfurt/Main, while the central technical functions of Logistics, Engineering and Production as well as Applied Technology are controlled from Krefeld. The Messer Group had more than 4,400 employees in 2007. From acetylene to xenon, the Messer Group has one of the most diverse product portfolios on the market – it produces industrial gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, helium, shielding gases for welding, specialty gases, medical gases and many different gas mixtures.
The Messer Group has state-of-the-art research and competence centers in which it develops applied technologies for the use of gases in almost every sector of industry, in food technology and environmental technology, medicine as well as research and science.

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