Unlock the Chemistry of Cooking - Advice for a Chemical Engineering Student

[danago]

Ive always had an interest in cooking and whenever i get a break from uni i like to get in the kitchen and experiment a bit; must be all those organic chemistry labs getting to me

Anyway i also have a pretty strong interest in chemistry and would like to learn more about the chemistry involved with food and cooking processes. Does anybody know of any books or other resources that i could try and get hold of to learn more about the topic? I am a chemical engineering student, so i have a fairly decent background in the basics of chemistry.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Dan.

 

[Gokul43201]

Alton Brown - Good Eats.

 

[alxm]

Well there was a whole show "Kitchen Chemistry" on Discovery before.

There's also an MIT course in the same, with a lot of the http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/special-programs/sp-287-kitchen-chemistry-spring-2009/" available under their OpenCourseWare thing.

 

[danago]

Alton Brown - Good Eats.

Thanks, ill definitely check that one out.

Well there was a whole show "Kitchen Chemistry" on Discovery before.

There's also an MIT course in the same, with a lot of the http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/special-programs/sp-287-kitchen-chemistry-spring-2009/" available under their OpenCourseWare thing.

Is that the show with Heston Blumenthal? And thanks for the link. I use MIT OCW all the time but have never seen that one!

I just ordered a copy of McGee's "On Food and Cooking". Seems to get good reviews

 

[chemisttree]

I just ordered a copy of McGee's "On Food and Cooking"...

That's the one I was going to recommend. A great book. Here's a snack, though...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillard_reaction
http://lancaster.unl.edu/food/ciq_onions_tears.htm

 

[danago]

That's the one I was going to recommend. A great book. Here's a snack, though...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillard_reaction
http://lancaster.unl.edu/food/ciq_onions_tears.htm

Thanks for the links I've actually read that wikipedia article already (came across it during an intense wikipedia link-surfing session haha), but the second website is new to me, looks like it contains some interesting articles.