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Reduction of gingerol content in ginger using kitchen equipment
The single topic that this question focuses on is - how to remove gingerol and only gingerol from a piece of ginger in a manner that it remains safe to eat using equipment found in a well stocked ...
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Why do green bell peppers become bitter when cooked?
Why do green bell peppers taste sweet raw, but become bitter when cooked (steamed)?
What chemical process is responsible for this? I don't believe the temperatures are high enough for the Maillard ...
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Is there any way to chemically check sweetness level in any drink or water or tea etc?
I was wondering if there is a test or way to find out how sweet any drink is? For example, if I mix sugar in water, how can I test its level or number of sweetness?
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What's a non-toxic flavorless water-soluable chemical I could use for freezing point depression when making ice cream?
I'd like to make a savory version of ice cream. So I can't use sugar or any artificial sweeteners for the freezing point depression needed to control ice crystal sizes. What can I use?
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Is sugar necessary for the sweetening effect of food?
A lot of food packages, nowadays, are mentioning "0 g sugar" or "sugar free". Then how do those still taste sweet?
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How does alcohol keep smell and taste flavors in wine?
Nowadays alcohol free wine is also sometimes available. Now is seems that this wine has less taste and flavors in it. The cause for this is that alcohol seems to the capability to keep these flavors ...
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The "hazardousness" of artificially made sweteeners
In school I learned of the "possible hazardity of artificial sweeteners." But that was some time ago, now. I think that science should have caught up by now.
My question is as follows.
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Measuring sweetness
According to my textbook, sucralose is about 500 times sweeter than sucrose. How is this measured? Does one have to use blind taste tests, or is there a quantitative chemical way of measuring ...
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Wine tasting like soot
I'm not sure if this question is for chemistry.
I had a bottle of (cheap) wine. It had a strong taste of soot, to an extend that I suspected that in the filling process some machine oil might have ...
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Off taste of over-boiled soup, what is the chemistry?
I had a tin of Asian soup where the label explicitly states "don't boil". It happens, it did boil, and afterwards had a taste that reminded me clearly of the smell I remember from stale soap water, ...
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What chemical measurements are related to the degree of flavor extracted by alcohol?
A recent project of mine includes making infusions of various ingredients to make liqueurs and bitters. Infusions, I've learned, vary widely in the amount of flavor extracted from an ingredient. ...
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Is there such thing as too much fermentation
When you make a wine the more you age it the better the taste. But is there such a thing as too much fermentation where it makes the wine taste worse? If not is there a time where fermentation doesn't ...
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Is there a way to experience peppers’s endorphins effects without the burning sensation?
When preparing dinner, my friend and I sometimes argue over the amount of pepper. It is often ‘too hot’ for him while I enjoy the heat effects (endorphins) of capsaicin (chili peppers) and piperine (...
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Why should space whisky taste different to Earth whisky?
I recently read an article about a vial of whisky being stored on the International Space Station for 3 years, and having its taste compared to a control sample stored on Earth.
What could cause this ...
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Discrepancies between smell and taste
In my experience, most foods smell like they taste. Fragrant soaps, however, taste quite awful in comparison to their fragrances. How can some things smell and taste identical while others are so ...
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