Why Do Cookies Taste Better With Salt? And Other Cooking Questions
But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids
Vermont Public
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
We head to the kitchen to answer cooking and food questions. Why does food taste better with salt? Why do we need salt to make sweet things like cookies? Why do seasonings taste good in food but not so much on their own? Why are marshmallows soft? Why do egg whites go from clear to white when they're cooked? How are expiration dates determined? Answers to your food questions with Molly Birnbaum, host the podcast Mystery Recipe and editor of America's Test Kitchen Kids.
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| 0:00.0 | This is But Why, a podcast for curious kids from Vermont Public Radio. |
| 0:25.8 | I'm Jane Lindholm. |
| 0:27.4 | On this podcast, we take questions from kids just like you all over the world and we find answers. |
| 0:33.2 | This week we're talking about cooking, baking, and food. |
| 0:36.4 | Why am I smell soft? |
| 0:38.8 | Why do we need soju, my sweet cookies? |
| 0:42.7 | How do they know when to put expiration dates on food? |
| 0:45.7 | Get ready to join us in the kitchen for answers to some of your cooking questions. |
| 0:50.3 | And we're joined by the host of a new podcast. |
| 0:53.2 | My name is Molly Burnbaum and I am the editor in chief of America's Test Kitchen Kids |
| 0:58.1 | and host of the Mystery Recipe Podcast. |
| 1:01.5 | A lot of kids probably know your podcast, but for those who haven't heard it yet, what |
| 1:05.3 | can you tell us about Mystery Recipe? |
| 1:07.8 | So Mystery Recipe is a podcast for kids and they're grown-ups to listen to. |
| 1:13.4 | Every week we cover a different ingredient and then at the end of the season we use all |
| 1:20.1 | of those ingredients to cook a mystery recipe together. |
| 1:23.1 | So throughout the whole season we want people to guess what the final recipe is going |
| 1:28.0 | to be and throughout that time we get to meet a lot of fun and fictional and non-fiction |
| 1:33.2 | characters and learn a ton about the science behind food. |
| 1:37.0 | In this first season of Mystery Recipe, they're talking a lot about ingredients like onions, |
| 1:42.5 | parmesan cheese, and salt as they work their way to their final recipe. |
| 1:47.1 | Do you have any ideas of what you think it might be? |
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