Charts for a kitchen
A kitchen reference has to survive being read with wet hands, from a distance, in the middle of doing something else. Nothing to unfold, nothing to scroll, nothing that wants a password first.
Coffee takes the largest share — the bean, the drinks by proportion, and brew ratios by method with weight, grind and time. Then tea, in the detail it deserves: the six kinds, the individual ones, the cultivars, matcha, and the aged teas. Alongside them the food sheets — sugar in fruit, protein in foods — and the conversions a recipe from the other side of an ocean demands.
A4 for a cupboard door, A3 for a wall. Both sizes are in the same download.
SPIRIT RAW MATERIALS
what the law lets whisky, rum, brandy and tequila be distilled from — ten spirits, seven raw materials, two regulations
BLACK TEA
grades, six leaves and four blends · in China it is "red tea"
TEA PLANT CULTIVARS
assamica against sinensis · leaves at one scale · six cultivars
GREEN TEA
six leaves · water, time, number of steepings
OOLONG
from 15 to 80 % oxidation · leaf shape · seven steepings
SIX KINDS OF TEA
one plant · the oxidation scale · seven processing steps
YELLOW TEA
yellowing under a cover · the step no other tea has
THE ISO 3591 GLASS
the only wine glass with dimensions instead of adjectives
WINE TEMPERATURE
neither from the fridge nor from the room — not one of them
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