What is kitchen chemistry? Chemistry Calendar, November: Food

There are many similarities between cooking and a chemical experiment. We mix ingredients to get a desired end result. But an understanding of chemistry can also help us explain many other things around food. In the eleventh video of the Chemistry Calendar we take a look at some of the chemical reactions taking place while cooking!

The Chemistry Calendar is a joint project between Molecular Frontiers, Chalmers University of Technology, University of Gothenburg and Universeum. We work together with film company Untamed Science to launch a video per month during the International Year of Chemistry 2011.

You can find out more, and download teaching material at
http://www.moleclues.org/chemistry-calendar

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• IYC2011
• year of chemistry
• chemistry
• chemicals
• molecule
• molecular
• Molecular Frontiers
• chemistry of cooking
• food chemistry
• home lab
• chemical experiments
• Maillard reaction
• baking
• oxidation