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Jim D.

Jim D.

This is a tall order.  From reading your Instagram posts, I know more or less what you mean by "understand things on a high level."  I don't have the information you seek, but do have a couple of ideas:  I am sure @Chocolot (or someone who is familiar with her work) will point out her classic book, Candymaking.  I would consider her an expert in caramel.  Second idea is Jean-Marie Auboine in Las Vegas.  In one of the eGullet workshops I witnessed his making of an amazing caramel with all sort of ingredients one doesn't usually associate with the making of caramel (isomalt, lecithin, sorbitol, to name a few)  And his addition of cocoa butter to caramel was quite surprising--and has proved useful in my otherwise too-fluid caramel recipes.  Thinking of caramel as an emulsion akin to the making of a ganache was also a game-changer, this idea from @teonzo.  Mark Heim is another expert in all things confectionery.  I suspect @Kerry Beal will be, as usual, your best source for who can provide what you seek.

Jim D.

Jim D.

This is a tall order.  From reading your Instagram posts, I know more or less what you mean by "understand things on a high level."  I don't have the information you seek, but do have a couple of ideas:  I am sure @Chocolot (or someone who is familiar with her work) will point out her classic book, Candymaking.  I would consider her an expert in caramel.  Second idea is Jean-Marie Auboine in Las Vegas.  In one of the eGullet workshops I witnessed his making of an amazing caramel with all sort of ingredients one doesn't usually associate with the making of caramel (isomalt, lecithin, sorbitol, to name a few)  And his addition of cocoa butter to caramel was quite surprising--and has proved useful in my otherwise too-fluid caramel recipes).  Thinking of caramel as an emulsion akin to the making of a ganache was also a game-changer, this idea from @teonzo.  Mark Heim is another expert in all things confectionery.  I suspect @Kerry Beal will be, as usual, your best source for who can provide what you seek.

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