Dell XPS Creator Series: MasterChef Matt Sinclair on taking flavours seriously
Food is all about creativity and inspiration. It's not just sustenance, it's an experience. So when Australia Masterchef runner-up and the chef behind the sensational Noosa restaurant Sum Yung Guys, Matt Sinclair, goes hunting for fresh ideas he isn't only heading down to the produce markets.
"Cooks can get inspiration from anywhere. Travel. Social media. A memory. A smell. A flavour," Matt says, as part of the XPS creator series. "I'll end up in this situation for hours on end when I'm trying to find where the ideas come from."
Hunting the web for ideas is now part of his daily routine. Cooking is about knowing your food well, and Matt says that if he's trying out a new dish, he wants to know its history.
"Where it came from, what it means, the flavour profile," he says. "The technology has allowed me to tap into that resource and find all those weird and wonderful and abstract concepts I probably wouldn't stumble across if I was just jumping on a plane or walking into a restaurant."
To keep his research handy while he's hard at work in the kitchen, Matt's been using a Dell XPS 13 which makes it easy to keep close with its 11-inch style sizing while still fitting in a 13-inch screen thanks to its new InfinityEdge design which puts the screen at a 91.5% screen:body ratio.
And that's just as true for creating content and sharing photos and videos as it is for sending them out. The display in the Dell XPS 13 now supports HDR content and excellent colour, contrast and brightness so wherever you need to get your work done you've got the screen quality to give you confidence in what you see while you edit before you send it out to the world.
"Content creation is an enormous part of what I do outside the kitchen and outside the restaurant," says Matt. "To take what I'm doing and share it. It's woven into what I do on a daily basis. To document that and share that with households around the globe."
Dell Mobile Connect also now makes this kind of content workflow even easier, allowing for faster, easier transfers of photos and videos from iOS or Android, so you can take those shots and then get them into the laptop for editing with ease.
And if you're using your Dell XPS 13 in the kitchen, the Corning Gorilla Glass 6 touchscreen means it is impact and scratch resistant, so you don't have to be too scared of the occasional grubby finger when you're scrolling with your fingers directly on the screen to catch the next page of a recipe.
In the kitchen and in a good laptop, "every little thing is everything."
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