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Making marshmallows from scratch is a lot of fun (and in my case makes my entire kitchen turn white…) and gives you unique fluffy white sweet pillows. I’ve made marshmallows and also analyzed them from a science point of view.…
Making a shortcrust pastry pie crust can be quite a bit of work. You need to knead together the butter and flour, add your other wet ingredients, leave it to cool, etc. But luckily, we humans have found an even…
If you’ve ever eaten both a freshly roasted as well as a raw nuts of any type, you will have noticed how different the two are from one another. An unroasted walnut can be kind of boring and flat in…
Science is everywhere when you’re in the kitchen. Just think of your bread dough bubbling away and expanding while proofing. Or a beer in the works. You might not even recognize the science, so common the processes are. The processes described…
I like pancakes, more specifically, baking pancakes. I don’t know why, but somehow, baking pancakes is just lots of fun. Recipes are always easy to put together, we tend to have all ingredients in the house and there are so…
If you ever go to a market in the Netherlands you will most likely encounter a stall selling fish. A decent chance you’ll find fresh herring, but an even bigger chance that you’ll find fried fish, especially kibbeling. You will…
Wheat flour is one of those staple ingredients that’s in just about any pantry in this world. And if you don’t have wheat flour, you probably have some other sort of flour in your cupboard for sure. It’s also one…
Sometimes we tend to forget how much our food supply (and it’s safety) has changed over the past two centuries. Children (and adults for that matter) used to die way more frequently from contaminated milk. Milk that contains harmful micro…
The science of food is fascinating. Whether it is while baking a cake or frying a steak, I keep on looking into the science of my food. In order to do that best, you should understand the science of your…
Everthing new starts by understanding the basics. One of the basic ingredients used in food is butter. This one-page infographic should help you understand all the science basics when it comes to butter. Just a heads up, I’m based in…
Cooking and baking are great, I love doing them, but I do tend to be pretty bad in following instructions to the tee. If I don’t have ingredients, I’ll try to find a substitute that will make it work anyway…