Every day, billions of people perform vital, life sustaining chemistry right in their homes! Baking, frying, boiling, fermenting… all cooking is science, and the way it weaves into our lives and cultures makes it uniquely fascinating! Join us this week to learn why the heck there’s iodine in your salt, what happens if you forget where in the bog you buried your cask of meat, and why baking a cake at high elevations can be so frustrating!
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[Truth or Fail]
Hartshorn salt:
https://www.thespruceeats.com/ammonium-carbonate-hartshorn-hirschhornsalz-1446913
https://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/foods/recipe/ammonia.html
Bog butter:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/for-peat-s-safe-bog-butter-unearthed-with-turf-1.583009
https://www.nature.com/news/1998/040315/full/news040315-5.html
Turnspit:
https://books.google.com/books?id=FVF_PhTjK7cC&pg=PA316#v=onepage&q&f=false
[Fact Off]
Iodine in salt:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w19233
Hank’s notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13t4UeMlNg5bH3v1HpkixBa_PYT6AB8NtCFqIBEw9XQk/edit?ts=5cbfd777
Graphene vegetable oil:
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14217
[Ask the Science Couch]
Cooking at high elevation:
https://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/icooks/article-3-03.html
https://extension.colostate.edu/docs/pubs/foodnut/p41.pdf
https://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/bread/bread_science.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6098858/
[Butt One More Thing]
Baby poop meat:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0309174013005263?via%3Dihub
https://www.livescience.com/43465-baby-poop-sausage-probiotic.html