Archives for: Kitchen Chemistry

The salt we use in our food is an astonishingly useful chemical called Sodium Chloride - and did you know...

Preserving food means making it last longer. Food goes off when bacteria break it down, and to do that...

Leave it long enough and all food will spoil - or rot. And do you know what’s behind this change?...

Elements are like the building blocks of chemistry – there are around 100 found in nature – and tonnes...

Fats are an important part of a healthy diet but you’ve probably seen low fat foods around – they’re...

Food comes in all sorts of different colours, and those colours come from molecules – tiny particles that...

Have you ever tried to guess what’s for dinner – just by taking a sniff? Every single smell is packed...

Liquids are EVERYWHERE in kitchens! Water, milk, juice, cooking oil, even washing up detergent –...

Most recipes need you to join ingredients together, but different things combine in different ways and...

You might already know about gases. There’s plenty of them all around us – even the air we breathe is a...