Category - How Food is Made

close up of puff in the puff pastry
How Food is Made

Puff pastry – Science of flaky layers

Making puff pastry sounds very daunting to a lot of home bakers. You can see contestants struggling with it on tv baking shows, like the Great British bake off. And why make it, when you can buy it? It took me a long...

March 5, 2019
7 min read
yeast donut dough is ready to proof
How Food is Made

Science of a basic yeast donut

Chocolate, lemon, red velvet or maybe you prefer just a plain donut? There’s so many donuts out there, it can be hard to choose. Even though flavours might be overwhelming to say the least, texture wise most of us...

March 2, 2019
6 min read
mozzarella making step 5 finished mozzarella
How Food is Made

How mozzarella is made

Chances are you’ve had a pizza that was covered with mozzarella. It is one of the most common cheeses for a pizza. It melts very well on top of your pizza and turns a nice brown. The mozzarella used on top of a...

December 25, 2018
7 min read
isidor beer
How Food is Made

What makes Trappist beer unique

There are some very unique places on this world where our food and drink is produced. Whereas a lot of it is manufactured in factories, in industrial areas, some comes from more exquisite places. Some beer for instance...

December 15, 2018
8 min read
Anova Nano
How Food is Made

An introduction to sous vide cooking

It shows up in any cooking competition, or fancy restaurants. There’s even cookbooks devoted to it: sous vide cooking. Sous vide cooking seems to be the perfect match for food scientists and engineers. Cooking in...

December 8, 2018
6 min read
two apple ciders with green tea and plum
How Food is Made

How (alcoholic) apple cider is made

As a people we seem to have managed to make alcoholic drinks from just about all of our produce. Grains can be transformed into beer, or spirits such as whiskey. Grapes are transformed into wine and apples, yes, you...

October 20, 2018
9 min read