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Release Date: Sep 7 2010
WHEN YOU KNOW A RATIO, IT’S NOT LIKE KNOWING A SINGLE RECIPE, IT’S INSTANTLY KNOWING A THOUSAND.

In Ratio, Michael Ruhlman, recognized as one of the great translators of the chef’s craft for both home cooks and culinary professionals, shows how cooking with ratios will unchain you from recipes and set you free. Ratio is the truth of cooking: basic preparations that teach us how the fundamental ingredients of the kitchen—water, flour, butter and oils, milk and cream, and eggs—work. Detailing thirty-three essential ratios and suggesting enticing variations, Ruhlman empowers every cook to make countless doughs, batters, stocks, sauces, meats, and custards without ever again having to locate a recipe.

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"Cooking, like so many creative endeavors, is defined by relationships. For instance, knowing exactly how much flour to put into a loaf of bread isn't nearly as useful as understanding the relationship between the flour and the water, or fat, or salt . That relationship is defined by a 'ratio,' and having a ratio in hand is like having a secret decoder ring that frees you from the tyranny of recipes.
Professional cooks and bakers guard ratios passionately so it wouldn't surprise me a bit if Michael Ruhlman is forced into hiding like a modern-day Prometheus, who in handing us mortals a power better suited to the gods, has changed the balance of kitchen power forever.
I for one am grateful. I suspect you will be too." -- Alton Brown, author of I'm Just Here for the Food

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Michael Ruhlman is the author of twelve books, including the bestselling The Making of a Chef and The French Laundry Cookbook. He lives in Cleveland with his wife, daughter, and son and is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and Gourmet as well as his highly popular blog at Ruhlman.com.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Free yourself from cook books and get creative ! Nov 30 2010
By Mylène Bergeron Francoeur TOP 500 REVIEWER
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Michael Ruhlman will tell you all you need to know about cooking. Therefore, he will discuss ratios with you.

This is no fancy book. There are no spiffy looking pictures along the way. This is basics at their best. Everything is brought to their smallest common denominator.

In part one, he'll show you the many doughs and batters one might want to use while cooking. This is the largest section. Part two consists of stocks and how to deal with them properly. Part three is the meat. Part four shows you the fat-based sauces (very interresting) and we end up with the custard, and it's different states.

Everything is very straight forward. Mr Ruhlman DOES encourage you to be creative, but AFTER you've learned the base. For quick reference, all the ratios are conveniently presented on one of the first few pages. Every ratio, once explained, is followed by a basic recipe. Then, creativity ensues: following recipes are variations on the freshly explained ratio.

Don't be fooled by the small volume of the book: the absence of lavish pictures made it easy for the author to cram in LOTS of information, tips, variations and recipes. You won't, at first, rely on this book instinctivly. But I assure you, leave it where you can see it, sometimes flip a few pages, it's going to grow on you.

I'm very happy with this book, the price was awesome (for a hardcover !), the knowledge is simply unbeatable, yet simple and straight to the point. A MUST get for everyone !

On my end, I'm looking forward to creating my own recipes with the help of this book, especially concerning cakes and other leavened items. Also, it helps a great deal when you want to scale up or down a recipe.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars making sense of baking Dec 26 2009
By Alison Cartwright
Format:Hardcover
I am a culinary arts teacher in a high school and I also run a Skills Baking Club through Skills Canada. This book has enabled me to explain to students why baking works the way it does. As students all work on an individual programs basis, they also frequently have to reduce recipes. All they have to do is memorise the ratios and sequences for different products and then they can start to get creative. For myself, I like the stress on measuring by weight, this eliminates the need for measuring cups.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensible April 22 2009
By Robert Pattison
Format:Hardcover
I would recommend this as a first cookbook for someone who is interested in the how and why of cooking. I would also recommend it for a confirmed cookbook Junkie (I own well over one hundred cookbooks and couldn't wait to get my hands on this one).

Ratio is perhaps the best combination of pure and applied cookery science that I have ever read - not as cutesy as Alton Brown, more practical than Harold McGee. Be warned, however - no glossy photos of food.

Readable, but set up for quick reference - this is a new book, but I think that in five years you will be able to tell whether someone is, or aspires to be, a serious cook (or baker, for that matter) by whether they have a stained copy of this book in their kitchen.

Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Comment
This book is excellent! After mastering recipes, this is the next step. It is a compact but very useful reference.
Published 1 month ago by Mary Elizabeth Kenny
5.0 out of 5 stars Handy to have...
This book is very handy to have! It gives you basic cooking principles for almost any recipe ratio you would need. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Chef Connie
3.0 out of 5 stars a litle disappointing
Great info - lackluster packaging - I bought 6 for Xmas gifts and would have been better off buying the laminated chart. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Meanjean
5.0 out of 5 stars More Bookish Thoughts...
Very rarely do I find a cookbook that I think could replace all my others and, while Michael Ruhlman's Ratio doesn't quite make me want to purge my culinary reference collection,... Read more
Published 24 months ago by Reader Writer Runner
4.0 out of 5 stars rules to cook by
Both interesting and informative. The chemistry behind the ratios is interesting. The book puts all those useful cooking ratios at your fingertips.
Published on Dec 30 2010 by Bobi
5.0 out of 5 stars What your mother never told you
Strangely enough I took a course in cooking in Jr. High and have a book case if various related books from the beginning of writing to today, yet none of the books and literature... Read more
Published on Nov 15 2010 by bernie
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
This book inspired me to try cooking more, and explained ratios just like it said it would.
Because this book demystified cooking for me, I found it very valuable.
Published on July 30 2010 by Rick Price
5.0 out of 5 stars A good book for the creative chef
By explaining how a recipe works, Ratio gives us the oportunity to be creative with a recipe and to adapt it to our own taste.
Published on Oct 5 2009 by Gi
4.0 out of 5 stars a good reminder of basics
This is a good reminder of basic cooking principles for experienced cooks, and a wonderful place to start for those wanting to expand on basic cooking skills
Published on July 31 2009 by D. Gray
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