It’s a festive food episode, as Chris digs into the science of Christmas pudding, particularly how it’s cooked so differently to regular cakes thanks to physics and chemistry; and Stu digs even deeper into one of the chemical reactions involved, the Maillard reaction that makes cooked food brown and tasty.
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Chemistry of Christmas cooking
It’s a festive food episode, as Chris digs into the science of Christmas pudding, particularly how it’s cooked so differently to regular cakes thanks to physics and chemistry; and Stu digs even deeper into one of the chemical reactions involved, the Maillard reaction that makes cooked food brown and tasty.