The Emergence Machine

Mother Sauce

abstract · Culinary · Level 15 · E9

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Emergence definition

A mother sauce emerges from cooking, where the transformation of food through thermal energy creates a foundation for various derivative sauces, which are then built upon the fluidity of liquid and the component nature of ingredients in a sauce.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “mother sauce” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Historical origin

Origin word
mother sauce
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL15L9L8L7L2L1L0Mother SauceSauceIngredientCookingVegetable… intermediate l…ForceFormKinetic EnergyLifeActionChangeMatterMotionEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

used byprerequisitesBechamelL16EspagnoleL16HollandaiseL16TomateL16VelouteL16Mother SauceL15CookingL7SauceL9E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Cooking L7 (requires)
    mother sauce builds on the concept of cooking
  • Sauce L9 (requires)
    A mother sauce is a foundational sauce from which numerous derivative sauces emerge.

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