The Science of Cooking - RePrint Edition (2012).pdf Gooner

Publisher: Springer; Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001 edition (October 5, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 3642631665 ISBN-13: 978-3642631665

A kitchen is no different from most science laboratories and cookery may properly be regarded as an experimental science. Food preparation and cookery involve many processes which are well described by the physical sciences. Understanding the chemistry and physics of cooking should lead to improvements in performance in the kitchen. For those of us who wish to know why certain recipes work and perhaps more importantly why others fail, appreciating the underlying physical processes will inevitably help in unravelling the mysteries of the "art" of good cooking