chocolate
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Someone Made A Life-Size Bust Of Star Trek’s Scotty That You Can Eat
They can erect giant metal statues in your likeness, paint elaborate portraits and maybe even make a movie about your life. But when they make a life-size chocolate bust of you, that’s when you know you really did something important with your time on Earth. Or off of it, in the case of Star Trek‘s…
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How To Make Chocolate From The Fruit To The Candy Bar
Video: Do you know where chocolate comes from? Apparently it isn’t from the checkout line at supermarkets! How to Make Everything shows how to make chocolate from scratch, from the fruit of the cacao tree to the fermentation, to the sun drying process to making sugar and cocoa butter, to the grinding and tempering and…
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Why Dark Chocolate Melts In Your Mouth, Not In Your Hand
We all know what happens when a chocolate bar sits inside a backpack on a really hot day: it melts, and even if it resolidifies, it will never quite look the same. But what if you could tailor your chocolate to have a higher melting point?
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Ponder The Physics Of Chocolate Fountains During Your New Year’s Revels
We now know a little bit more about the dynamics of chocolate fountains, thanks to the efforts of Adam Townsend, a graduate student at University College London. He decided to figure out why that “curtain” of molten chocolate always falls inwards and the ensuing paper appeared last month in the European Journal of Physics.