Why do foods brown when we cook them?
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Effects of Aromatic Compounds on Cooking
The smell and the look of something cooking are part of the same deal. They're both effects of the same like reaction, that started a chain reaction kind of deal. So it's going to smell them and smell it. But the fact that it's part of an initial reaction that causes several different things or whatever is cool. Yeah. That is interesting. It's just like, you're so used to things that you cook, that you love smelling great or whatever. And I hadn't thought much about the fact that like, I don't know, I just hadn't caught my mind, probably like many other people as well.
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