Cheese Making and Cake Baking: The Chemistry of Cookery

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2011

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

We've whipped up an appetising take on the science of food and cooking for you this week. With a main course of cookery in the kitchen served up by a cake-baking physicist followed by a microbiological look at the cheese board and then the bacterial basis of the Best Before Date for dessert, this three-course scientific combo is an absolute academic feast. Also on the menu this week, how scientists are using brain scanners to reconstruct the movies we see in the mind's eye and we ask whether Einstein was wrong as scientists report particles apparently moving faster-than-light... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:07.0	The Naked Scientists. Hello, it's Sunday the 25th of September.
0:13.0	Welcome to the Naked Scientists.
0:14.0	I'm Dr. Chris Smith. Hello it's Sunday the 25th of September.
0:22.8	Welcome to the Naked Scientists.
0:24.0	I'm Dr. Chris Smith and in the studio with me
0:26.6	is a plate full of very nice looking cheese.
0:28.8	And joining me from his kitchen is Ben Vausler.
0:31.3	Hello Chris, thank you ever so much. We are in the middle of British food fortnight and tomorrow marks the start of British Cheese Week. So we're going to be looking at the science of food. To help me out, I'm joined by food physicist Amy Chesterton.
0:44.5	Hello yes I'll be baking a cake during the show to explain the chemistry of
0:49.2	cookery to you. Well that sounds extremely tasty Make sure you do save me some.
0:53.0	We're also going to be exploring the microbiology of food.
0:56.5	How microorganisms help us to make delicious cheeses,
0:59.4	and also best before dates.
1:01.0	Our bacteria can turn good for you food into bad for you food.
1:05.0	Ben... And in the news this week how scientists can reconstruct on a computer the pictures
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