Marcel Vigneron is perhaps best known to "Top Chef" fans as the guy with the Wolverine-inspired hair and a penchant for making food into foam.Now the upstart chef is traveling to Bravo's sister network Syfy for his upcoming culinary show "Marcel's Quantum Kitchen," and Zap2it got a front row seat for his cooking demonstration Monday (Oct. 11) at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel in Orlando, Fla.
The concept of his show is pretty simple: Vigneron will be a mad scientist caterer, creating a menu to fit a particular event's theme using his creativity and wand of choice -- molecular gastronomy, the application of scientific principles to cooking. For the Syfy Digital Press Tour, Vigneron's alchemy is tested with the Harry Potter theme, appropriate since we'll later visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter after the demonstration. (Check back with Zap2it for the Potter report.)
"They didn't actually tell me that Harry Potter was the theme until like a week and a half ago," he tells the gathered reporters who are also eating the food he's prepared. "It was really fun to play with. I started doing my homework. I was on MuggleNet, doing all sorts of research and then came up with butterbeer spheres."
Served in a Chinese spoon, the butterbeer spheres are made with cream soda and a reaction between two chemicals. But first, Vigneron uses maltodextrin, which turns fat into powder, on some browned butter to make a nutty brown butter powder, which then gets a few drops of butterscotch flavoring. The spheres -- which are still liquid in the center, but held by a gossamer membrane that bursts upon eating -- are placed alongside the butter powder.
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