The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

Really, that’s about all you need to know, so you
have full permission to skip the rest of this sidebar
right now. But for those of you who, like me, had the
greatest geometry teacher in the world in ninth
grade and were thus instilled with a preternatural
desire to draw triangles and measure stuff, well, in
the words of Mr. Sturm, get your gas masks,
because we are climbing Mount Elegance, and the
air up there is quite thin!
Quantitatively, how much of an effect does the