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

Tuesday, May 12th - Final Class

Weekly assignment

• You need to hand in your kitchen science paper at the beginning of class.

• We will be making Spaghetti and meatballs with Mariana sauce plus Creme brulee for our final meeting. You do not have to make the beef meatballs if you so choose. The rest of the meal is vegetarian.
• Reading assignment from the text , On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee, Hardback version (copywrite 2004) pp 571-577, 623-24, 677-787

Additional reading

• even small children perform creme brulee as an experiment!
• Want to eat pasta without making a mess? Here is a Physicist's explanation.
• Exerpt from Robert L. Wolke's book "What Einstein told his cook"

Homework questions (need to be handed in by the end of class)

1. Chemically what happens to the sugar when you heat it with the blowtorch.
2. What happens to the boiling point of the water when salt is added to it?
3. How does the addition of salt to the water affect the cooking of the pasta?
4. According to Robert L. Wolke, why do we add salt to the pasta water?

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