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What Happens When You Cook Potatoes?
Potatoes are one of the most versatile foods out there. You can bake, fry, boil or mash them. Eat them warm or cold, with plenty of seasonings, or just plain. You can eat them months after they’re harvested, or fresh…
What is Potato Starch and How is it Made?
Have you tried making a recipe that calls for potato starch and wondered what it is and why it’s in your recipe? If so, you’re at the right place. We’re going to dig into the science of potato starch, explaining…
How to Measure the Color of Food
Would you buy a raw brown steak? What about a blue apple? Green coconut flakes? Or a grey orange? Probably not. If the color of food isn’t ‘right’ consumers won’t buy it anymore, even if it is perfectly safe and…
How Dutch Chocolate Sprinkles Are Made (& Eaten)
Is there a food you can’t go without? The one that you take with you on every vacation? If you’re Dutch, born and raised in the Netherlands, that one food might well be chocolate sprinkles. We Dutch don’t just use…
How Turmeric Gets its Color (& How to Make it Turn Red!)
The ‘secret’ behind that yellow dal, yellow rice, or beautifully colored curry? A decent chance that it’s turmeric. A mere teaspoon can help color a sauce or dish and it’s not just used in savory dishes. In some countries it…
Sour Cream vs Creme Fraîche – Digging into Cultured Creams
In the Netherlands, sour cream and creme fraîche often share a shelf in the supermarket. They’re packaged in very similar packaging and even look and taste alike to some extent. But recipes can be very specific about using just one…
Optimizing Your Babka Filling (+ Several Babka Recipe Variations)
It’s impossible to count all the different types of breads made in this world. There are simply too many. It’s even more impossible to count all the different iterations within one bread. Everyone makes their baguettes, naans, challah, or tortillas…
The Science of Fluffy Naan (+ Guide and Recipe)
Before ever trying to make naan ourselves, we bought a bag of pre-packed naan, which was immediately also our last time we did so. It was a true disappointment. They were dense and slightly tough, a far cry from the…
Torta Setteveli – Using Science to Make This Challenging Italian Cake
Making a complicated dish, with a lot of different components can be a true project to plan and execute. But it’s a great way to practice a lot of techniques in one go and learn something new. Generally I stick…
The Science of Caramel Popcorn
Caramel popcorn is full of contrasts. Light, fluffy and airy inside with a dense outside, savory corn with a sweet, buttery caramel sauce. Vegetables + candy (yes, you’d almost forget corn is a vegetable). The contrasts are what make caramel…
The Chemistry of Olive Oil (And Why It’s Stored in Green Bottles!)
Ever stood in front of the shelf spaces full of olive oil bottles and cans and wondered why there are so many different types of packaging? Non-transparent plastic bottles, slim and tall transparent plastic bottles, oils in greenish plastic, some…
Baking cookies – What happens in the oven?
Are your cookies in the oven (or did they just come out)? And are you wondering what it is that transforms the uncooked raw dough into crispy or chewy cookies? Of course, the heat causes these transformations, but what’s the…