• Question: what is the most interesting food you have ever experimented with

    Asked by thehridaynator to Duncan, Grant, Julie, Nik, Rachel on 13 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by imajas.
    • Photo: Duncan Gaskin

      Duncan Gaskin answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      I had to try and clone a gene form Guava once, this involved freezing it in liquid nitrogen for a couple of days and then hitting it with a hammer to break bits off!

    • Photo: Grant Campbell

      Grant Campbell answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      Bread, bread, bread. Bread is always the most interesting food – because it’s so common, we take it for granted, but it’s because it is extraordinary that it is so common, and the more you learn about bread, the more fascinating it becomes. As I’ve written in a previous answer “no food before or since has exerted such mastery over men”.

    • Photo: Rachel Edwards-Stuart

      Rachel Edwards-Stuart answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      There is a food enzyme that sticks proteins together. Its called “meat glue”. This allows you “glue” different proteins together – like a pork chop to a chicken breast, or salmon to cod (I cut cubes out of these fish and then glued them together like a chess board!), or chicken skin to fish fillets! It’s totally safe, and it makes some quite interesting results!

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