Chemistry in the Kitchen Spring 2023
Scientific Food Blogs by Dickinson Students
This is the science of how I altered this Banana Bread recipe to test a hypothesis. The science of the original recipe can be found HERE. The adjustment that I decided to do to the recipe was to use under ripe bananas instead of overripe bananas. I thought about using normal bananas instead, but I …
This is the science behind the classic banana bread recipe! Banana bread uses many scientific principles. One of them is that it uses both baking soda and baking powder. The acidic counterpart to baking soda is the lemon juice that is added to the smashed bananas, because although bananas are technically acidic fruits, they are …
Have you ever been curious about why you can still make banana bread with bananas that are no longer good to eat? Whenever bananas started to go bad in my house growing up, that just meant that was time to make banana bread, and as soon as it was out of the oven, we were …
This is the Time and Activity Chart for the Recipe I will be doing! See Science of Banana Bread for more information. Time and Activity Chart Recipe- Printable Version
Hello! I grew up surrounded by cooking, so I have grown to love it over the years. My dad is the cook and baker in my family, so I have fond memories of waking up early on Mother’s Day to help my dad make French toast, and then going out into the yard to pick …