The 4-Hour Chef launches and we got exclusives for you

Noah Kagan
November 20, 2012
Tim Ferriss' new book is out today and this hungry Sumo is happy
Last night I made Russian Borscht, home made almond milk and some balsamic brussel sprouts. Yum.
Afterwards I snuggled up with my early copy of The 4-Hour Chef by my friend Tim Ferriss.
It's 671 pages and 3.71 pounds of pure beef, err I mean "meat."
Lately, I've been on a cooking binge and this book could not have come at a better time.
It's 1/2 healthy & unique recipes, 1/2 how to learn anything quicker and 1/2 awesome hacks to improve your life. Yes, 150%.
This latest book launches today and I wanted to make sure y'all heard about it.
I've read about 1/8 of my early copy of the book (hey, it's really long). Here's a few things I already like:
- Making the best jerky in the world.
- David Blaine's Morning Juice.
- A breakdown of all the fancy kitchen lingo you never understood before.
- How to start a fire (I was impressed by this and I'm an Eagle Scout).
- How to memorize a deck of cards in 43 seconds, the nine knots you must know and the essential spices/kitchen tools you actually need.
If you dislike cooking, this is a great book to improve your learning skills or impress house guests on your coffee table. Otherwise, you can use this book as your weights for the exercises in The 4-Hour Body.
For the Sumo-lings out there that know NOTHING about cooking this will be your bible. For others this will provide you really neat hacks for your cooking arsenal.
I'm a bit surprised The 4 Hour Chef is only $21 with free shipping from Amazon Prime.
I'm proud of Tim and 99.4% confident this new book will also be a best seller.
Since Tim loves all things Japanese and Sumo related, he gave us 2 exclusive chapters:
- An inside look at Google Chefs: A behind the scenes of who's who in Google cooking, their favorite cook books and interesting insight into Google's food culture.
- A chapter on the effect of Frequency for quicker learning: A detailed example how to learn Spanish in a short amount of time, optimal ways to nap and a complete culinary school training in 48 hours.
These are exclusive to AppSumo, meaning you can't grab these munchies anywhere else. It's also cool since they are in edited format so you can see what a book looks like before it goes to print.
So get your free bonuses and leave a comment with your favorite recipe to make. We can share!





97 Comments & Reviews
Most Helpful ▼ / Most Recent / Highest RatingSumo-ling
November 25, 2012
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4-hour-chef
Excellent work by Tim Ferris once again
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Sumo-ling
November 20, 2012
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Pasta a la Norma, with aubergines, cherry tomatoes, fresh basil and oregano, and home-made pasta. Great to serve in a sunmer midnight with friends and chilled Feteasca Regala.
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Anton Sepetov
November 20, 2012
Admin
Whoa that sounds delicious
Sumo-ling
May 16, 2013
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sounds delicious this pasta recipe, i will try it this weekend.
How come you know Feteasca Regala? Are you Romanian ?
Sumo-ling
November 20, 2012
Bought
My favorite new recipe sounds a little weird until you try it. (Its a Tim Ferriss thing)
Take a Avocado, cut it in half and remove the stone. Sprinkle salt over and fill the hole the stone left with vinegar( I like apple cider vinegar)
Enjoy the awesomeness.
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Sumo-ling
November 21, 2012
Bought
I've tried this and it IS awesome!
Sumo-ling
April 15, 2013
Its not really a Tim Ferriss thing, i think i saw it at Jamie Oliver
And we made it at home when i was a little kid, about 30 years ago, (shudder, im getting old).
But i still enjoy it.
Sumo-ling
November 20, 2012
Bought
The section on SuperMemo should be revised to include the fact that Windows and iOS versions are out. No reason to go out and purchase a Palm device to use SuperMemo.
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Sumo-ling
November 20, 2012
Bought
Got the bonuses and the kindle version. Good to go. For a recipe. I made this the other day. 1 Zucchini sliced long ways. 1/2 pack Dixie Fry. 5 white cardamom pods. A couple tablespoons grapeseed oil. Heat the oil in a frying pan - medium / medium high. Snip the cardamom pods, strip the seeds out and add to the oil. Fry for a few minutes then remove and grind in a mortar and pestle. Add the ground, roasted cardamom to the Dixie Fry mix. Rinse the Zucchini in water and dip in the Dixie Fry / Cardamom mix and fry. Since they are thin they fry fast. East immediately. Yum.
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Sumo-ling
November 23, 2012
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Sumo-ling
November 20, 2012
Bought
The Bonus Material
I enjoy practical/useful "stuff" and the Google chef material included that along with the bios. Nice!
The same for the 20+ page material on frequency and the specific methods of application; it translates to other to-be-learned subjects on my list. Double nice!
p,s. I think that I'll be following AppSumo more closely.
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Geoffrey Marles
November 20, 2012
Bought
Yum Yum
Fat Sumo loves food..................................!
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Sumo-ling
November 20, 2012
Bought
A Plus
AppSumo never disappoints. Great content!
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Sumo-ling
November 20, 2012
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4 hour chef
Free is always good...........
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Sumo-ling
November 20, 2012
Bought
Favorite recipe: ancho chile pumpkin pie. SO easy and so much better than regular pumpkin pie.
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Noah Kagan
November 21, 2012
Admin
Where's the recipe? :)
Sumo-ling
November 21, 2012
Bought
From Sunset magazine (with our notes from making it over the last 3 years):
Ingredients
Pastry for 2 9-inch pies, purchased or homemade (we use purchased)
1 can (15 oz.) pumpkin
1 2/3 cups whipping cream
3 large eggs, beaten to blend
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon ground dried ancho chiles
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
Preparation
1. Poke holes in the pie pastry with a fork.
2. Bake pie pastry in a 375° oven until edges are dry and barely golden, about 15 minutes. Remove from oven. Reduce oven temperature to 350°.
3. While the crust is browning, in a large bowl, whisk pumpkin, cream, eggs, brown sugar, granulated sugar, ground chiles, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt until smooth.
4. Pour pumpkin mixture into hot pie crust and return pie to oven. Bake until center barely jiggles when shaken, about 45 minutes (we find it usually takes about an hour, but be sure to check at 40 minutes). Cover edges with foil if you don't want them too brown.
5. Let cool to room temperature on a wire rack, at least 2 hours. Cut into wedges to serve, or, forego the slicing, grab a fork and some whipped cream and enjoy!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Bernard M Jr Lynch
February 2, 2013
Bought
Sorry, but
I must have missed something here. I had to force myself to read it.
And I'm usually open to most anything.
This really seemed pointless.
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Fred Harden
December 3, 2012
Bought
Bit trivial
Maybe the whole book is more interesting but I couldn't tell from these (badly formatted) excerpts.
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Sumo-ling
November 23, 2012
Bought
Pretty useless: give this a pass
The Google Chef document is essentially a list of bios of Google's executive chefs.
The frequency document is an unfinished, unedited draft. It's riddled with the author's notes. And I don't mean useful, illuminating notes, but statements like "add in a graph here" and "put in a pic here".
I guess you get what you pay for?
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Nigel Banks
November 22, 2012
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Random time waster
Free but it's stolen 15 minutes of time that I could have spent doing something vaguely useful
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Howard Stein
November 20, 2012
Bought
Swipe and deliver
So far, excellent. Keep up the good words.
Oh, how to make rice: The slow way. Use brown, basmati, sushi, or jasmine.
Add 1/3 more water than package calls for. Once covered do not lift lid, do not move pan. Cook until no bubbles are visible. Turn off heat. Let stand 15 minutes or longer.
This gives one more than enough time for other activities.
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Sumo-ling
November 20, 2012
Bought
Wow
Read chapter on Google's Chefs. The tenacity with which they approach all areas of organic food sourcing to it's benefits for Google employees is very inspiring. I wish more companies had the same approach.
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Christopher Greene
May 24, 2013
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love it!
nice!
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Sumo-ling
May 8, 2013
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Sumo-ling
April 15, 2013
I was a bit disappointed about the google chefs insight.
If i had spend some time on google with a list of names i probably would have found the same or even more about the peopel and their vitas.
The other chapter about frequency was more interesting.
Im still analyzing how to put the findings into software development practices.
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