This week we are back in the Caribbean as we pay a visit to the Bahamas. To get more acquainted with Bahamian cuisine, we make a vegan conch salad, a ceviche-style dish popular throughout the islands. This post is a bit of an outlier on this blog as my wife […]
pH
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Why do you dip pretzels in high pH, corrosive lye before baking them? How is this related to brown onions and black garlic? What is the Maillard reaction and can we really hack it? Yum When making pretzels, a simple dough is shaped into the traditional pretzel knot and dipped […]
How do you fold a protein, why are chemists obsessed with subatomic particles and how is this related to tofu? These and many other questions – like why you shouldn’t make kimchi in a metal container or how you can get rid of a corpse – will be answered in […]