
Food Science Special: Million-Layer Puff Pastry and More!
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
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What Do You Know About Food Science?
Food science is a scientific process which hopefully ends up with something good to eat exactly. Taste molecules like sweet sour salty bitter and umami are mostly water soluble so if you're adding seasonings or like garnishes to pastry it's helpful to understand at a super basic level. The weight color and texture of the glass or cup you used to drink from has a very large impact on your perception of the contents including freshness and pure pleasure. If two cups have the same volume the taller one is perceived as having more for example a tall champagne glass looks like it holds more than around wine glass. People will consume more of a product if they perceive the package to be larger in short what we eat
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