Food charts
Both sheets answer the same kind of question: how much of something is really in the food, once you stop comparing per hundred grams and start comparing portions anyone would actually put on a plate.
The fruit sheet sets sugar side by side and makes the point that sugar is not one substance — fructose, glucose and sucrose come in different proportions in each fruit, and the tongue can tell. The protein sheet does the same for protein, including why cooked and raw figures disagree: the protein does not go anywhere, the water does.
Kitchen wall, or the inside of a cupboard door. They are comparison sheets, so they are worth hanging where the comparison gets made.
BABY-LED WEANING
cutting fruit and vegetables so a baby can feed itself: the shape, the size limit and what is never served
THE BOILED EGG
soft, medium and hard: the minutes on the timer — and the degrees at which the white and the yolk set
THE HAMBURGER
the ratios of the mince and the five steps that decide the result
CAST IRON SKILLET
seasoning in 6 steps and everyday care — after the official Lodge instructions
COOKING SALTS
table, kosher, sea and flake: the sodium in the very same spoon — per the makers’ labels, drawn to true scale
FIRST FINGER FOODS
the size, the softness and the shape of a piece for a baby who feeds themselves, by the NHS guidance
THE 9 MAJOR FOOD ALLERGENS
the foods US law singles out by name, and the two ways a label is allowed to say so
SUGAR IN FRUIT
grams of natural sugar per 100 g of fresh fruit — and how much water sits beside it
HERBS AND SPICES
what pairs with what, how much to use and what swaps for what — per extension publications MF3539 (Kansas State) and FN198 (NDSU)
CULINARY KNIFE CUTS
julienne, brunoise, bâtonnet and the family of dice — the Culinary Institute of America dimensions, drawn to true scale
SAFE MEAT TEMPERATURES
USDA minimums inside the cut: three numbers for all meat, the rest time, and an oven plan
NEAPOLITAN PIZZA DOUGH
four ingredients in the proportions written into an EU regulation
POUND CAKE
four equal weights — a recipe whose name is its ratio
PROTEIN IN FOODS
grams per 100 g · animal and plant · and the state each one was weighed in
THE SCOVILLE SCALE
chilli heat from the bell pepper to Pepper X: four peppers drawn to true scale, and the ladder of varieties
SOURDOUGH BREAD
the timeline, hydration and grams — per King Arthur Baking’s Naturally Leavened Sourdough Bread
TABLE SERVICE
which side each thing arrives from, in what order the table is served, and what the hand may touch