Teenage Mood around Food

Oh, man, I was grumpy today.  And we cooked loads of stuff but none of it was to eat.  And I still feel like all the “science” that's talked about in food sounds made up (I know it isn't).  Through this empathetic experience, I now know what a teenager might feel like in a food science theory lesson (I can't remember my own teenage, it was too long ago).

So anyway, we were focussing on macronutrients.  There was a lot of talk about molecules.  We investigated what happens when you heat food.  We tried different kinds of starch as thickener.  We cooked some egg in test tubes and beakers.  We cooked sugar, bacon, potato and flour.  We popped corn.  We talked about dry and moist heat.

There was a lot going on, and we still had time to have a little play on Food in Focus 2, which is quite a cool, simple computer programme for designing and analysing food.  I really like the idea of teaching food but being taught it makes me grumpy.