The Chemistry of Food
- How does the ingredient you experimented with effect the food’s overall characteristics? Be specific and discuss the chemical structure of the ingredient and the chemical structures of the aspects of the food the chosen ingredient interacted with as part of your answer!
You can also see a difference in the final, fully cooked loaves. One very important characteristic that was different between the two was the moisture. This was tricky to see by just looking at it because they both looked dense and the same color. However, you can see in the gluten-full loaf the gluten stretching throughout it and little air pockets being formed. In the gluten-free pierce it is more compact and looks almost like mush. This is because very little chemical process occurred while cooking. The chemical structure of gluten makes any kind of dough or bread stretchier because it forms a sort of web within it that gives it water but also space for air holes.
- In what way(s) are cooking and doing science similar and in what way(s) are they different? How are a cook and a food scientist similar or different?
While cooking is always science, science is not cooking. What I mean by this is that every time you cook it up some sort of chemical process is happening even cutting an onion is a chemical process, all food is made up of molecules and that is science. However I think cooking is only based on foods and not all science is based on foods, actually many chemicals are not edible and will poison you to consume. The definition of cooking is the practice or skill of preparing food by combining, mixing, and heating ingredients. If the word food was not included in this definition it would also work as a definition for science experiments. They are very similar process and could be considered interchangeable, but be carful when "cooking" with dangerous chemicals.
The Chemistry and Sustainability of Construction Materials
Everything is matter, and matter is atoms, we see this in solar energy in the form of photons, and the element silicon. The key ingredient to power are electrons, and to create a circuit you need positive and negative. Atoms are designed to have these charges, for so many reasons but for the purpose of solar power it is necessary that there be atoms that loose electrons and become positive, and electrons which in their nature are negative. levels of positive silicon and levels of electrons are what create energy and in turn the power that we can use to help our planet thrive.
in this progressively toxic world it is very important that we uses sustainable materials. Solar is one of the best forms of sustainable energy this means in is renewable, and causes less co2 emissions. other aspects of our sustainable school will possibly include green cleaning, lots of sunlight and more. Solar energy will be something for our school to be proud of because slowly but surly we are doing our part to burn less fossil fuels and have less carbon footprint.