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Showerthoughts

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Cooking is just applied chemistry (lemm.ee)
submitted 10 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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You mix together chemicals and compounds, delicately adding them and heating them at specific temperatures to get a desirable output. You often have to care for other factors like air flow (how much to leave the pot closed or open) and material weight (like not adding too much in a cake or it'll all sink to the bottom).

A kitchen is just a laboratory, and chefs are just scientists that focus on taste. I get it now.

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[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Chemistry but wirh a high margin for error and where someone can make a ketchup sandwich and claim its good food.