Archives for: Kitchen Chemistry
Kitchen Chemistry: Salt
The salt we use in our food is an astonishingly useful chemical called Sodium Chloride - and did you know...
Kitchen Chemistry: Preserves and Preservatives
Preserving food means making it last longer. Food goes off when bacteria break it down, and to do that...
Kitchen Chemistry: Rot
Leave it long enough and all food will spoil - or rot. And do you know what’s behind this change?...
Kitchen Chemistry: Elemental
Elements are like the building blocks of chemistry – there are around 100 found in nature – and tonnes...
Kitchen Chemistry: Low Fat
Fats are an important part of a healthy diet but you’ve probably seen low fat foods around – they’re...
Kitchen Chemistry: Colourful Food
Food comes in all sorts of different colours, and those colours come from molecules – tiny particles that...
Kitchen Chemistry: Something smells…
Have you ever tried to guess what’s for dinner – just by taking a sniff? Every single smell is packed...
Kitchen Chemistry: Dense Liquids
Liquids are EVERYWHERE in kitchens! Water, milk, juice, cooking oil, even washing up detergent –...
Kitchen Chemistry: Mix of Mixtures
Most recipes need you to join ingredients together, but different things combine in different ways and...
Kitchen Chemistry: Hubble Bubble
You might already know about gases. There’s plenty of them all around us – even the air we breathe is a...