The creative work of Jordi Herrera takes place in the kitchen and the workshop. That’s where he creates new gadgets to get flavours and textures imagined in what he calls the “psychological palate”. He innovates there, seeks different solutions to attain an extensive palette of flavours” to surprise the table.
“Never walk on the travelled path because it only leads where others have been”
Graham Bell
“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools”
Napoleón
“If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got”
Albert Einstein
“What would life be like if we didn’t have the courage to try something new?”
Vincent Van Gogh
R+D
His gastrolab has produced innovations such as:
Blowtorch cooking
He introduces a blowtorch in the kitchen, only used for pastry-making.
Xof technique
He invents a technique for wrapping a liquid in a solid, turning it into a sphere.
Nail grill
He creates a nail grill to cook tenderloins and steaks without losing their juices.
Steam tube
He brings a steam tube into the kitchen to cook crustaceans in their shell.
Heated smoker
He invents a heater smoker: a mini-oven that cooks and smokes at the same time.
Centrifuge for cooking
He builds the first centrifuge that cooks meat without losing juices, making it turn.