• Question: have you ever discovered anything exciting or intresting

    Asked by tonie to Duncan, Grant, Julie, Nik, Rachel on 11 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by meggyriggers.
    • Photo: Rachel Edwards-Stuart

      Rachel Edwards-Stuart answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      We came across some quite exciting things when I was trying to recreate Willi Wonka’s gobstopper, all related to how you perceive flavours. Trying to stabilise a 6-tonne chocolate waterfall a few years ago was exciting. I have also made some interesting findings recently (although it will probably sounds very boring -when written down!) on the thickness properties of different solutions in relation to how you perceive them in the mouth, and on cooking meat safely in the water bath.

    • Photo: Duncan Gaskin

      Duncan Gaskin answered on 17 Mar 2013:

      I have discovered that hitting a deep frozen Guava fruit with a hammer is dangerous if you don’t wear the right protective clothing!

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