7 Ways to Spruce Up Your Cooking with Science

The video explores the science behind cooking, offering seven tricks to enhance meals. It covers topics like using yeast and beer for bread, adding mushrooms to tacos for health benefits, reducing rice calories with coconut oil, pasteurizing eggs for safety, and using artichokes to perceive sweetness. It also discusses how temperature affects taste and compares butter and shortening in cookies. These hacks are grounded in scientific principles, making cooking both a practical and educational experience.

How do artichokes create the perception of sweetness?

What is the impact of temperature on the perception of sweetness in food?

How does shortening affect the texture of cookies compared to butter?

What is the significance of gluten in baking, particularly in cookies?