Re:The Electromagnetic Force of Fridge Magnets
by BenjiWiebe on Friday August 27, 2021 @07:10PM
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According to https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2010/jun/09/science..., the rising action of cake is mostly from water boiling and leavening agents producing CO2: "Carbon dioxide and water vapour account for approximately 90% of the subsequent expansion of the batter, the remaining 10% being due to thermal expansion."
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Re:The Electromagnetic Force of Fridge Magnets
by gerdesj on Friday August 27, 2021 @07:39PM
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Tell that to my mother! She was an absolutely belting cook but always ended up with a caldera in her sponge cakes.
She was able to make clotted cream from first principles - she was Devonian. She also introduced pasties to several parts of West Germany in the 1970s/80s. The food traffic went both ways in Germany and I have a massive fondness for schnitzels - "Zigeuner" (gipsy, I think) and "Jager" (hunter - deffo).
Mum was also a soldier as well as dad (they were both Captains when they met in Scotland) but she was told to get out what with her being a woman and hanging out with a male Army occifer. That was back in the late 1960s. Times have changed a lot since then.
Anyway, cakes. mmmm cakes.
Re:The Electromagnetic Force of Fridge Magnets
by emmelaich on Friday August 27, 2021 @08:48PM
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Caldera you say?
Some cheeky person has put Penn and Teller's recipe up on epicurious ...
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/swedish-lemo...