Cheese is a protein network holding fat and water inside it. Heat loosens or tightens that network depending on how it was made, and every behaviour below is a consequence…
The organising fact is that rice is not one ingredient. Varieties differ in starch composition in ways that make them truly unsuitable for each other dishes, and almost every rice…
The structural fact behind all of this is that fish do not support their own weight - water does it for them - so the muscle never needed the tough…
The useful frame is that bread is a foam with a solid structure. Something has to make the gas, something has to trap it, and something has to set around…
The useful frame is that milk is holding itself together rather than being a stable liquid. Almost everything below is either that arrangement breaking or somebody breaking it on purpose.…
The useful frame is extraction. You are dissolving specific substances out of solid material into water, and everything about the result depends on which substances come out and what happens…