What are culinary precisions in a recipe?

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Plate of sushi rolls with salmon, vegetables, and rice wrapped in seaweed, served with chopsticks and a small bowl of soy sauce on a wooden table. — gastronomy A common rice dish of Japanese cooking is sushi. To make a type known as *maki-zushi*, a sheet of seaweed is spread with rice flavored with vinegar. Seafood or vegetables and garnishes are then placed on top. Finally, the whole sheet is rolled into a cylinder and sliced.

In the context of molecular gastronomy, recipes are analyzed by distinguishing between two specific components:

Culinary definitions: These are descriptions that define the objective of a recipe.
Culinary precisions: These are the technical details of a recipe.

Within the scientific framework of molecular gastronomy, one of the primary objectives is to collect and test these culinary precisions to better understand the mechanisms of phenomena that occur during culinary transformation. By isolating these technical details, researchers can move beyond traditional cooking lore to scientifically explore and rationalize culinary activity.12