To become a better cook, sharpen your senses
Besides taste and sight, hearing, touch and smell, while less associated with cooking, also come into play
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KATE McDermott describes it as "the sizzle-whump". It's the sound a pie makes when it's perfectly baked, said Ms McDermott, the author of Art of the Pie. The "sizzle" is the sound of hot butter cooking the flour in the crust, melding it into a crisp, golden lid. The "whump" is the sound of the thickened filling bumping against the top crust as it bubbles at a steady pace.
"I call it the heartbeat of the pie," she said. Ms McDermott, 63, who lives in Port Angeles, Washington, leads intensive baking seminars across the country. But before she became a pie coach, she was a professional musician. "I experience the world primarily through sound," she said. "I've been listening to pies since I started baking them."
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