Science, Food, and Holidays.

For those of you here in America, Thanksgiving will be celebrated this Thursday. Many of you will be home cooking up a variety of foods. Believe it or not there is a lot of science involved in the cooking! What is the boiling temperature of water? If you add salt will that change the boiling temperature? When the pop-up timer on the turkey pops up what does that signal? Why is some bread flat and some is puffy?

Keep your mind active during the holidays by exploring these web sites!

• Cooking A Better Bird
• Science of Cooking
• Kitchen Cornucopia
• Heat Transfer by Conduction (Gizmo)