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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…
Being one of the most popular beverages in the world, coffee is always under the microscope for its many known and unknown aspects. Speaking of which, we’ll address one of the most commonly asked scientific coffee question — whether coffee…
After carefully mixing milk, cocoa powder, and maybe some sugar, you’ve just made your perfect chocolate. And then, you got distracted, and let it sit for a while. If you waited too long. Chances are you had to stir it…
Ever noticed that you can smell your coffee beans, long before you’ve opened the pack? The aromas seem to still find their way to your nose. A vacuum pack of ground coffee on the contrary doesn’t smell like coffee at…
Trends, and especially those on social media, are short-lived. They’ve often passed well before I even noticed them. I have one of our readers to thank for discovering the Dalgona coffee trend in spring 2020. This creamy, airy coffee drink…
If you’ve brewed your own beer or made your own cider you’ll have probably come across the term: specific gravity. It’s a tool that’s commonly used to determine how much alcohol you’ll get in your final drink. But what does…
As a people, we seem to have managed to make alcoholic drinks from all sorts of produce. Grains are transformed into beer, or spirits (e.g. whiskey). Grapes are transformed into wine, pears into perry, and apples, into cider. Making an…
This is a guest post by a fellow food scientist with ample experience in various categories of new product development: Nathan Silva. Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn. Cold brew coffee has been taking over the U.S. coffee…
After boiling a pot of water and dunking in a fresh tea bag, that bright ,transparent water starts to turn into a golden yellow or brown. Fragrant smells start to waft into your nose. The warm cup is perfect to…
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…
This is a guest post by Michael, author and founder of Robust Kitchen. Beer is awesome. Declare it from the rooftops! Or maybe that’s old news to you. If you’ve ever enjoyed downing a cold glass next to me at…
Long before that steaming cup of (Turkish?) coffee stands in front of you, or even before you buy that bag of coffee beans, your coffee beans have been on quite a journey. From plant to farmer, to processor, and finally…