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April 26, 2020

Counting on Cookies

Cookie recipes never seem to make as many cookies the recipe claims, so how big (or small, rather) must a cookie be in order to get the recipe-expected number of cookies?

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  • Tagged baking, cookies, food, mass, quarantine, recipe
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February 13, 2017

Baked vs Fried: Energy Use

Whole home energy monitor + a new kitchen toy = electric oven vs residential fryer (energy use comparison AND mini taste-test)!

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  • Tagged baking, chicken, energy, frying, taste test
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September 27, 2015

Baked Bacon!

Alton Brown exposed many people to baking bacon via Good Eats. There seems to be some differing instructions online about time and temperature – in addition to some non-specificity on bacon thickness. Does it matter? We’ll cook some bacon in the name of science for you (you’re welcome).

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  • Tagged bacon, baking, temperature, time
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April 6, 2015

Pi-day pie plates

Pi-day, the perfect day for pie. While this post is pretty belated, we did celebrate on the appropriate day – for science, of course! This time, how does pie plate material impact the finished pie?

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  • Tagged baking, cooling, kitchen science, pi day, pie, pie plates, temperature
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September 24, 2014

Blueberries II: The Muffinning

A pair of blueberry muffins

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of a quantity of blueberries, must be in want of baked goods [citation needed]. Having acquired blueberries and converted some of them into desserts, we set our sights on things breakfasty, and commenced The Muffinning. Continue reading →

  • Tagged baking, blueberries, kitchen science, muffins, taste test
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September 21, 2014

Blueberries: the Thickening

It’s blueberry season here in the UP, and having picked 5.5 lbs of them, we needed to do some science! Since I am not quite up to tackling experimental wine making yet, we chose to investigate the potential thickening power a single apple can lend to a blueberry pie.

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  • Tagged baking, blueberries, pie, taste test, texture
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April 20, 2014

Egg-speriments take 2 !

Revisiting some questions generated last year during egg-dyeing season: Can you successfully bake eggs? Can consistent temperatures lead to more consistent egg colors? We wanted to know!

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  • Tagged baking, color, Easter, eggs, observation, temperature
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March 14, 2014

Apple Pies for Pi-day!

In this mini-taste-test: variously spiced apple pie-lets.

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  • Tagged baking, cinnamon, dessert, orange liqueur, pi day, pie, taste test, vanilla
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March 9, 2014

Duck eggs vs the baked goods

Having a friend who raises ducks means that we have ample opportunities to test duck eggs in recipes. How does using yolkier eggs alter baked goods like cake and cookies?

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  • Tagged baking, eggs, taste test
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February 12, 2014

Yeast in New Environments

In celebration of Darwin’s birthday we are introducing a yeast strain into a new environment and testing the results against the standard yeast champion to see what happens (other than bread).  Continue reading →

  • Tagged baking, bread, Darwin, taste test, yeast
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