RecipeMuncher

A while ago I wrote about the el Bulli Texturas kit which was (and still is) probably the best present I have ever received. Initial experiments resulted in, erm, indeterminate results and my attempts at spherification seemed to be as successful as a Mormon monogamy pledge. I soon discovered (ok, ok, my girlfriend discovered) that as we live in a hard water area, the algin was likely reacting with the salt we use in our water softener which was what was causing the less than successful blobs as (...)