The tissue is dense and most flavour molecules are large, so the liquid stays near the outside. Once that is understood, what a marinade is good for changes completely. Here…
The organism does one thing: it consumes sugars and produces gas and alcohol. Bread keeps the gas and loses the alcohol; brewing keeps the alcohol and loses the gas. Everything…
The heat does not exist in the seed. It is created on demand when the cell structure is broken and water is present, and it is unstable from the moment…
The single variable through most of this is how much water remains. Temperature rises as water leaves, so the temperature of a syrup is really a measurement of its concentration.…
White and yolk are not two parts of one thing. They are separate materials with different compositions that behave differently under heat, which is why an egg can be cooked…
Two separate things are happening: the cells lose their internal pressure, and the walls between them break down. The first is quick and the second is slow, and the difference…