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From protein science, to milk analysis, from paneer, to Parmigiano, the world of cheese is a big and complex one. It’s easy to build an entire career around the topic of cheese-making, make that more than one career if you…
Paneer is a style of fresh cheese, originally from South Asia, but now eaten more globally. Depending on where you live, you may find paneer being made from cow’s or buffalo milk. Both make a seemingly similar product, but they’re…
Taaitaai, literally translated, it means ‘toughtough’. It’s a Dutch style of cookie that you’ll only find in stores in November, until early December. With a slight anise seed flavor it’s a main stay of the ‘Sinterklaas’ celebration season. The reason…
After searching for and buying the right types of cheese, you’re finally ready to start making your cheese fondue. You enthusiastically add the cheese to that special cheese fondue pot, only to end up with a mess of stringy, clumpy…
Brewers need malt to make delicious beer. Bakers use malt or diastatic powder to optimize their daily bread. Malt is a grain that’s been allowed to sprout, but only just a little. This ensures that all valuable sugars and proteins…
There is not one way to make cheese. Instead, there are hundreds, if not thousands of ways to make cheese. Resulting in countless different types of cheese with each their own characteristics. Even within one variety, there are countless little…
They stand right next to each other in the store: golden, or yellow, brown raisins. They seem identical, except for their color. Is that true? Is their color the only difference? And if so, why even are most raisins brown,…
Even though you can make a lot of different types of cheese from cow’s milk, at their core, they all work the same way. Whether it’s brie, a fresh herby cheese, mozzarella, Gruyere, Parmesan, Gouda, paneer, or Emmentaler, they all…
Thinking of buying a proper candy thermometer for your candy (science) experiments? If I may give you just one tip, don’t buy a ‘real’ candy thermometer. Instead, just buy the FANTAST thermometer from IKEA!
Summer is zucchini time. And if you happen to be growing your own, you might well be faced with a zucchini overload. After zucchini soup, zucchini pastas, grilled zucchini salads, you might just start to run out of ideas. So…
If you wanted to make cheese at home, but never got to it. Why not start making paneer? Paneer is one of the easiest cheese to make. All you need to make this Indian cheese are milk and acid. The…
Still think the only way to make mayonnaise at home is by taking a whisk and some hard work for a couple of minutes? Luckily, times have changed and you can now make mayonnaise in a matter of minutes, using…