Chemistry of Food and Cooking
In this project we did have to design an experiment involving food. When asked “How can we design an experiment and measure the qualities and desirability of a finished recipe both quantitatively and qualitatively in order to determine the success of our recipe experimentation?” Well we can design a experiment and measure a finished recipe quantitatively by let's say in my experience I made ranch you can test the acidity of the lemon juice in the ranch testing the PH levels. You can do multiple test of ranch without lemon juice and see what the PH levels and compare that too a lot of acidic in ranch. You can use a ph stick and see what color it turns into. If it turns into yellow or orange it's very acidic. Or with numbers if its less than 7 is acidic. You can design and experiment qualitatively by maybe performing a taste test.
Cooking and doing science is similar in a lot of ways. When you make science you put a bunch of different chemicals into something to make and experiment and have a final product. When you cook you have a bunch of different ingredients that in the end have a final food product. They all use chemicals/ingredients to get a final product. Now science and cooking are different because the food already has the chemical reaction already in them. For example when I made ranch the mayonnaise already had an emulsion in there already. In science you use the raw materials like chemicals before getting changed and make the experiment then.
Cooking and doing science is similar in a lot of ways. When you make science you put a bunch of different chemicals into something to make and experiment and have a final product. When you cook you have a bunch of different ingredients that in the end have a final food product. They all use chemicals/ingredients to get a final product. Now science and cooking are different because the food already has the chemical reaction already in them. For example when I made ranch the mayonnaise already had an emulsion in there already. In science you use the raw materials like chemicals before getting changed and make the experiment then.