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SP.287 Kitchen Chemistry Seminar at MIT -Syllabus for Spring 2009

Tuesday, april 28th- Ice Cream

If you want to make a specific flavor of ice cream, email Patti (patti@mit.edu) your add-in request. All reasonable requests will attempted to be accommadated.

Weekly assignment

• Take a look at the recipe.
• Reading assignment from the text (On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee, Hardback version (copywrite 2004) pp 39-44
• research Articles:
  • Using ice cream as a probiotic delivery system.
  • stability of ice cream
  • Colloidal aspects of Ice cream
• Additional reading is at
  • Getting the right texture in the ice cream
  • FAQ of ice cream from the University of Guelph Food Science.
  • Science and Ice cream
  • sign up for the ice cream school.
  • step by step pictures and directions to make liquid nitrogen ice cream

Homework questions:

1. What is the purpose of the liquid nitrogen?
2. How do you normally freeze ice cream?
3. What makes good tasting ice cream?
4. What flavourings are you going to add?

Notice how everyone is wearying safety equipment when working with liquid nitrogen

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