Should you make French Toast in an oven or on a frying pan? What’s the difference between sous vide and regular cooking? And why would you use high pressure cooking over regular cooking? What is the difference between the three production methods for artificial vanillin?
You’ll find all these comparisons and more in this comparison category. It should help you decide which process to use in which instance and how different processes differ from one another.
It’s a crucial part of understanding your food. If you really understand the differences, you can easily determine which is the best going forward!
This group of posts is part of the category ‘Making Food‘ in which we discuss how you transform those valuable ingredients into your final dishes/products.
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…
Nothing better on a cold day: a warm cup of tea. Not just to warm the inside, but to warm my hands as well. Making the cup sounds simple, just bring some water to the boil. Pour the water in…
Walking into a kitchen or production location where nuts are being roasted tends to be a delight. The air is full of nutty, caramelly aroma’s. Taking it one step further and burning those nuts deftly removes all that pleasantness and…
Cooking a pie in the oven is always a delicate balancing act. You don’t want the pie to dry out and become tough. But under cooking is probably worse, with raw liquid filling being left in the pie. Imagine how…
How cold does your freezer need to be for freezing that piece of fish in less than 2 minutes? How fast does your cooling water need to flow to keep a pipe full of soup at temperature? If you’re designing…
Have you ever dreamed of developing your own kitchen tools to sell to others? Slightly overwhelmed by the long journey from idea, to prototype, to fundraising and actual manufacturing? We got to speak to the developers of a new baking…
If you’ve been with us for a while, you might have noticed by now that one of our passions is bread and bread making. It is something we can do every week (or day) since bread is definitely one of…
An essential part of any holiday (in a warm place that is) is ice cream. It’s fun to find a nice ice cream shop and take plenty of time to choose your flavour (even though you’ll always choose the same…
In order to make a traditional Dutch kroket or bitterbal or a batch of French fries you used to have to take out your deep fryer from somewhere. Get plenty of oil and be ready to make those perfectly crispy…
As you might know by now (example 1, 2 and 3), pancakes are a great way to illustrate culture and science of food. So when a fellow Dutch blogger recently wrote about ‘Dutch baby’ pancakes, it was time to try those…
Want to sound smart during your next barbecue or outdoor outing? Tell your fellow roasters what happens when roasting those marshmallow you’re making over the campfire or barbecue! Don’t know what happens?! Good thing we’ve written this post on exactly…
French toast is one of my favorite ways to finish old, stale bread. A good soak in a soggy egg mixture, softens the bread and still makes it great to eat. When in high school one of the first things…
