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Ordered two of them.Borg said:Well... Did you write down the number? :tongue:
Ordered two of them.Borg said:Well... Did you write down the number? :tongue:
Ivan Seeking said:I agree with Turbo and so do top-tier chefs. About twelve years ago, Tsu and I attended a brunch at a high-end hotel, in Portland. The scrambled eggs were so good that I made a point to hunt down a chef and ask how they were made. Based on what he said, I needed to add about three times as much milk as my mother had taught me. Sure enough, that was the trick.
Part of my objection to a product like this is the waste. It is convenience taken to the point of aburdity. I actually find products like this to be offensive.
It takes energy to manufacture and distribute any product. In a year, when you throw it away, it will go to a landfill and probably last for decades, if not much longer. Any convenience found here is trivial. Products like this are plague on our energy-hungry, oil-powered society.
wikipedia said:The iSmell or iSmell Personal Scent Synthesizer was a computer peripheral device developed by DigiScents in 2001. The prototype connected to a personal computer via USB or serial port and was designed to emit a smell when a user visited a website or opened an email. The device contained a cartridge with 128 "primary odors" which could be mixed to replicate natural and man-made odors. DigiScents had indexed thousands of common odors, which could be coded, digitized, and embedded into web pages or email.[1]
In 2006, the iSmell was named one of the "25 Worst Tech Products of All Time" by PC World Magazine, which commented that "[f]ew products literally stink, but this one did--or at least it would have, had it progressed beyond the prototype stage.[2]
Actually there is a scientific reason that milk is added to scrambled eggs.[Quadratic];4324414 said:I know I'm replying to a 3 year old post but oh well.
Recipes engineered for perfection—what exactly does that mean? The Science series takes you inside the experiments behind 50 cooking concepts featured in our new book, The Science of Good Cooking, by the editors of Cook’s Illustrated.
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Scrambled eggs should be a dreamy mound of big, soft, wobbling curds. They should be cooked enough to hold their shape when cut but soft enough to eat with a spoon. An omelet, on the other hand, must be firm enough to roll or fold, but the eggs should still be tender and soft. Unfortunately, all too often BOTH dishes turn out dry, tough, or rubbery. Sometimes this is due to overcooking. But no matter how much you cook the eggs, they need some help to keep them tender. The magic ingredient? Fat.
The Backstory
First, let’s talk about what happens to eggs when you cook them. To understand what’s really happening, you have to start with the notion that eggs actually contain distinct elements—the whites and the yolks—that behave quite differently.
The whites are 88 percent water, 11 percent protein, and 1 percent minerals and carbohydrates. The yolks are 50 percent water, 34 percent lipids, and 16 percent protein. When eggs are heated, the water turns to steam. The protein strands begin to unfold, sticking to each other, and eventually forming a latticed network. The formation of this lattice gel is called coagulation—the transition from liquid to a semisolid that you can pick up with a fork.
Ideally, the denaturing proteins will form a loose network that is capable of holding on to the water in the eggs, which will make the cooked eggs tender and fluffy. But it’s too easy for the proteins to form very tight bonds with each other, squeezing out too much liquid in the process. Here’s where the fat comes in.
Scrambled egg recipes generally call for some sort of dairy like milk. The fat in milk coats the proteins and slows down the coagulation process. The water in the milk provides additional moisture, helping to keep the eggs tender. (The liquid also produces steam, making fluffier and lighter scrambled eggs.)
Borg said:For parents who can't get off of Twitter - TweetPee. Yes, it's a diaper that sends out tweets when it's wet.
Ivan Seeking said:Eventually they are likely to correlate the virtual crying with the baby actually crying?
AlephZero said:I think the EU eventually gave up trying to create an international standard for the shape of bananas. And human teeth are effective enough as a banana cutters!
But on the web page there was also an ad for a "stainless steel rectangle roaster". A special gizmo that only roasts stainless steel rectangles sounds even dumber than the banana slicer.
Medgirl314 said:What's the EU?
Dr Lots-o'watts said:This one actually showed up on the Dragon's Den, and it's available in local stores.
http://www.bananaguard.com/