Americans visiting Europe discover that food scraps go in a bin, and Europeans visiting America discover a switch on the wall that makes a noise like a small industrial accident…
Nothing in There Is Looking at the Bread
This is the fact that reorganises everything else. A domestic toaster contains no sensor pointed at the toast, no measurement of its…
The Belief Is Universal and It Is Backwards
Ask anybody how a microwave differs from a conventional oven and you will be told that it heats from the inside out.…
It is loudest before it boils, and the switch never measures the water. Here are fifteen.
1. The Element Heats the Water, Not the Kettle
In an electric kettle the…
The gas is dissolved, not bubbled, and it is all trying to leave. Here are fifteen.
1. There Are No Bubbles in a Sealed Bottle
The carbon dioxide is dissolved…
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…