• Question: Whats your favourite thing to cook? and how does it link to chemistry?

    Asked by ossa532fuse4 to Sarah C, Nicola M, kirstenhawkins, Dan on 7 Nov 2025. This question was also asked by jays532fuse4, buss532mobs.
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      Kirsten Hawkins answered on 7 Nov 2025:

      I love cooking Currys – the order and preciseness mirrors chemistry quite well as well as the duration at which you cook your curry for, similar to reaction time

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      Nicola Morgan answered on 28 Jan 2026:

      I love to cook Swedish meatballs! I suppose all cooking is chemistry; food changes properties with heat. Water may boil off or proteins will denature (egg turning from clear to white). Have you ever accidently put red cabbage with egg, it turns the egg a blue/green color! Its a natural pH indicator so i think that means egg must be alkali. If you put vinegar on red cabbage it goes bright pink.

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    melissau commented on :

    I love baking, my family are big fans of cake, so there are always requests for these! Baking is somewhat different from some other types of cooking in that the proportions of the ingredients need to be quite specific in order to get the desired outcome due to the interactions between their different characteristics and cooking time can’t be varied much without messing up the results!