
A Scientifically Superior Christmas Dinner
BBC Inside Science
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Are You Pro or Anti-Sprouts?
Baking powder creates a slightly more alkaline surrounding, and then that allows the proteins to break down more efficiently. The oven at the temperature that you need to get a Mayard reaction is told us we need between 140 and 200 Celsius. We start by asking geneticist Adam Rutherford his views on sprouts. I'm pro sprouts, but this little vegetable seems to have split the nation. And what dictates your dislike? Is it in your genes? Well, they don't feature in your Christmas dinner,. No, they do, but I've taken to cooking them in a different way, which is to par boil them and then fry them with bacon.
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