Some dishes improve and some collapse, and which is which is predictable. Here are fifteen things going on.
1. Flavour Compounds Keep Moving After the Heat Is Off
Soluble aromatic…
Nobody thinks of them as equipment, which is what they are. Here are eleven jobs.
1. Trapping a Layer of Still Air
Most of the insulating effect is not the…
Almost everyone has the explanation for this backwards, and the wrong version is so intuitive that it survives in textbooks. The skin absorbs water, the outer layer swells, and the…
The mental model most people carry is that bones are the inert part. Flesh is alive and busy, and bone is the scaffolding it hangs on: fixed, finished, only changing…
Humans Are the Best Long-Distance Cooling System in the Animal Kingdom, and Sweating Is How We Do It
Sweating has a poor reputation, being treated as an embarrassment to be suppressed with products. It is, biologically, one of the more remarkable things about the human body, and among…
A scar is usually read as a failure: the body tried to put the skin back and did not quite manage it. That is not what happened. Scarring is the…