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Category Using appliances & tools
Want to understand how a tool or kitchen appliance works? If so, you’re at the right place! Whether it’s a pressure cooker or a Bundt cake pan, we explore how it works and why it works.
How to Use LoafNest: a Smart Way to Bake Beautiful Bread
We love kitchen tools that 1) don’t take up too much space and 2) have a good chunk of science to them that we can discuss in detail here on the website. We’re fans of our InstantPot (aka pressure cooker)…
What is an Air Fryer and How Does it Work?
Every few years there seems to be a new gadget on the market that everyone raves about. A few years back the InstantPot seemed to be everywhere, and of course, don’t forget about sous vide cooking. We tend to be…
How to Make Stovetop & Microwave Popcorn
Humans have probably eaten some sort of popped corn for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Nevertheless, for a long time, I thought making your own popcorn would require all sorts of special equipment and advanced skills. The opposite is…
What to Consider When Choosing a Pressure Cooker – Reviewing the InstantPot
We never (or barely ever) made chili from dried beans, or made a meat stew during the week or made our own yogurt. All of that changed when we got our InstantPot, a pressure cooker and yogurt maker (that’s the…
The Science of the Bundt Pan (+ Chocolate Bundt Cake Recipe)
Have you ever made such an artsy Bundt cake? One of those round cakes with a hole in the middle, often with a lot of intricate designs? Which can be a hassle to get out of the form if you don’t…
How Sous Vide Cooking Works
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 a water bath might scare…
How to Choose a Sous Vide Cooker – Reviewing the Anova Nano
If you’re a food scientist, it almost seems unavoidable to dive into the world of sous vide cooking. Sous vide cooking has been quite the rage for a while for chefs and food enthusiasts. Apparently, it’s the perfect way to…
How to Make Super Smooth Cheesecake in an InstantPot
When cooking or baking, food scientists (that’s me!) like to disseminate their food and all what’s going on. So when you’re baking a cheesecake and it’s in the oven, you start thinking about what’s happening in that oven. A cheesecake…
How Pressure Cooking Works – Using an InstantPot
If you’ve ever cooked dried chickpeas or dried beans you know it’s something that has to be planned well ahead if you intend on having dinner on the table before midnight. Same goes for stewed meats, delicious, but they take…
How to Prevent Fried Eggs from Sticking on a Cast-Iron Skillet
Bacon and eggs for breakfast, a classic. On a lazy Sunday morning you’ll talk your time to make some. Grab some eggs and slice some bacon. You pre-heat the skillet while doing so and once it’s nice and warm you…
How to Make a Barbecue Skillet Cookie – Barbecookie!
Feel like a dessert after a barbecue but don’t know anything that seems fitting? Good thing we’ve got a solution for you: how better to end your barbecue than with a dessert made on the barbecue? Introducing the barbecookie, a…
Science of waffle making – Do you need to flip them over?
A while ago we bought a waffle iron as a present for someone else. It was actually one of those machines that could also make grilled sandwiches or use it as a grill for meat, etc. When I think of…