tags: food science: stories and blogs
food science: stories and blogs
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Does Salting Dried Beans Make Them Harder to Cook?
Science says it’s an old wives' tale.
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Shockingly Tasty Fruitcakes
Start now, finish aging by Christmas.
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What’s the Skin on Heated Milk?
That sticky film can ruin a good hot chocolate.
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What Vegetables Go Into Vegetable Oil?
Mostly soybeans.
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How Does a Beer Get Skunky?
A different way to end up stinking drunk.
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Why Is Dried Egg So Hard to Clean Off?
It’s in the egg’s nature to be stubborn.
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Can Microwaved Water Explode?
Superheated water means trouble.
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What Is the Best Way to Wash Fruit?
Forget the fancy tricks.
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How Does Packaged Guacamole Stay Green?
You have to tame a certain enzyme.
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Way Beyond Salad Dressing
Or, how to use vinegar and citrus in your cooking to punch up flavors.
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The Year in Food 2008
What we ate, what the candidates ate, what the Olympians ate.
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How Does Plastic Wrap Cling?
It’s got that special stick-to-it-ive-ness.
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Does a Silver Spoon Stop Champagne from Going Flat?
Keep your bubbly bubbling.
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Why Does Nose Grease Tame Beer Foam?
Frat boy finger lore demystified.
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Mysteries of Tempeh Revealed
This week’s mission: a seasoned meat substitute, and fancified potato buds.
