The second week of the course includes:
(1) An introduction to our guest chef, Dave Arnold and
(2) short videos focused on the concepts of heat and temperature.
(3) The lab for the second week asks you to investigate how to make the perfect egg without an immersion circulator or how much the temperature of hot tea changes when you add ice!
This week, we’re also releasing Harold McGee’s audio recordings for the course. You will find all of these recordings in a single section, if you'd like to listen ahead or listen to these insights as a series. In addition, you can find these recordings weekly in the "Extra Chef Materials" subsections.
We are overjoyed to virtually meet so many of you on the introduce yourself page and the discussion forum. We encourage you to watch each others’ videos and read each others’ posts. We look forward to building this community of food enthusiast/cook/scientist/teachers!
In week 1’s lab, we asked you to measure a cup of flour and a cup of water. We assumed a US American cup (237ml), and this list attempts to convert non-standard units to standard (SI) units in order to be able to compare one with the other. Based on the data you entered, you didn’t all get the same weights! What explains this substantial variability? In this portion of the lab, we wanted to show you that a cup of flour is a variable measurement. What does this mean for your recipes? How many of your are now thinking about using more accurate measuring tools?
Our favorite lab photos from Week 1 came from: FilipeFanco, keig, woofnstuff, ClementDrolet, and atrini.