ChefLab
Precision kitchen toolkit
$6.99 · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Seven benches: cure, thermal, egg, frozen, ferment, infuse, texture. One coaching line, then the grams. Texture Lab Unlock is a one-time purchase.
ChefLab is a pocket atelier for people who weigh salt in grams.
Seven benches. You set the piece, the lab does the math. One coaching line, then the numbers. Kitchen guidance, not a health department.
CURE LAB
Dry cure, equilibrium brine, or a wet-gradient pull from the actual meat weight. Injection pickle and dry sausage too. Salt, nitrite, and the percentages that keep a coppa from becoming a story. EU nitrite salt (0.4–0.6%) or Prague #1/#2.
THERMAL LAB
Sous-vide and pasteurization holds from published charts: thickness in millimetres, core temperature, then the hold. Start from the fridge or a home freezer (−18 °C). Hardware-agnostic.
EGG LAB
A physics timer, not a 7-minute superstition. Weight, starting temperature, and kitchen height, then a countdown to the second. Live Activity so the phone can sit on the far side of the board.
FROZEN LAB
Gelato, ice cream, and sorbet. PAC and POD from the batch you weigh, then sucrose, dextrose, milk, and cream. Kitchen mix math, not a vitrine spec sheet.
FERMENT LAB
Sauerkraut salt on the cabbage, pickle salt in the brine, and a meat hold toward pH 5.3. Dextrose for the flora. Nitrite and drying salt stay in Cure Lab. Two clocks for salami: ferment, then dry. After kraut or pickle is ready, a fridge sentence: salt keeping the jar, not a use-by stamp.
INFUSE LAB
Chamber vacuum for fruit: compress until the piece goes dark, or drive marinade into the pores. You set the tissue and the millibar; the lab gives fill, collapse, and the two holds. An edge sealer is not a chamber. Botanicals in alcohol get a steep clock from grind, ABV, and bath temperature. A jar, not a still.
TEXTURE LAB
Hydrocolloids without the dinner-party mystique: gelatin bloom, agar hysteresis, pectin windows, alginate, gellan, kappa, iota, locust bean, methylcellulose, xanthan. Mixes too: kappa or xanthan with locust bean, agar with LBG, LM pectin with calcium. Fluid gel on agar and gellan. Alginate spaghetti and skin, not only spheres. A saved run can open at half or double. Grams of gel, not vibes of gel. Texture Lab Unlock is a one-time purchase; later extras on this bench come with it. It also lifts the three-note notebook cap.
ON THE DEVICE
Calculations and batch notes stay on your phone. No account. No cloud. Metric first. Dutch and English.
Educational, not HACCP. Calibrate the thermometer you actually own.
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Texture Lab Unlock now does more on the same purchase. Blends: kappa with locust bean, xanthan with LBG, agar with LBG, and LM pectin with calcium. Fluid gel on agar and gellan — set, chill, shear to a sauce that still holds. Alginate goes past the sphere: spaghetti, bath time for the skin, chloride or lactate. A saved Texture run can open at half or double the batch. Existing lifetime buyers get this. Infuse stays free.
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Information
- Seller
- Romano Finetti
- Size
- 2.8 MB
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Dutch
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Textuur Lab ontgrendelen $6.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Romano

