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0:14room my chemistry of cooking class
0:17is a general education class that we have here at American University
0:21its targeted towards non-science majors on kids to
0:25maybe normally are frightened off by signs and frightened off by chemistry
0:29and today we're going to be talking about the chemistry
0:32macaroni and cheese has made
0:37non boxed version a macaroni and cheese before no craft know they'll be a
0:42I love teaching chemistry and cooking because it's my chance to proselytize
0:47conjuring
0:48I'm I see chemistry around the campus so it's what I do it's what I think
0:52naturally
0:53and there's a big disconnect between regular
0:57born um and one of the things that I I love to do with this course
1:01show all the students how they're actually chemists
1:04any time they step foot and kitchen or sit down the
1:08food so who can tell me something about this reaction past
1:14okay and think about it terms reaction energy back
1:18so I really love to cook at home and I'm really interested about
1:22sciences cooking so that maybe I can do this
1:26for general population maybe I could do this for our freshmen and sophomores the
1:30kids who are taking our Janet persons
1:32it's a lot of fun you do you get a couple II his demonstrations a lot of
1:36fun since the acte
1:37what he coached don't want to come in and have a beez there is some chemistry
1:41involved which is one thing we were expecting but
1:43after I did it gets easier as you
1:46certain understand it America been a super science person but
1:50all the sides as I thought about chemistry they must look interesting and
1:54I think I found a much more interesting and I can apply it
1:56things that I actually do instead of just knowing how to like balance
2:00equations and you know
2:01those kind of things which kinda bombs molecules back I think about were
2:05interesting little a pirate like
2:06be able to use it to not even just like to know I think there to do work but
2:10able to improve the cooking but I do right parmesan
2:13not high temperatures you got no different
2:17pick up block Karzai's nice solid
2:20right and mozzarella switch well
2:23there are all sorts of chemicals and food you know the vitamins minerals and
2:27proteins and
2:28and all sorts of stuff you can learn about all those but chemistry is also
2:33about change
2:34and and what cooking does it not only tells you
2:38what's there but also tell you how the molecules into changes you cook them and
2:43I think that's a big part of Chemistry
2:45okay and a lot of times to when you watch a
2:48like Italian cooking show they will add a little bit at the pasta water to it
2:52whatever software making the pasta water has us
2:56starches flowing through the start of the thickness of their make
2:59throughout the semester we do different then I was like making jelly
3:04I we we make ice cream at the end of that liquid nitrogen ice cream at the
3:09end
3:09the semester with your steaks we cook eggs
3:13so all sorts of fun stuff like we meeting Casey the day in
3:17a all my friends and no I there but was in it but me and my friend who are
3:21who is also his class new about the bubbles wanna
3:25I the the one thing I hope my students take from this class
3:29on is just the natural curiosity
3:32I want them to go home and i won I want them to play around in their kitchens
3:36and try new things
3:38and think about what it is that they're doing while they're changing one
3:41variable or another
3:43whether it's adding a little bit extra butter
3:46or making a vinaigrette her or whatever it is they're doing I want them to think
3:49a little bit about the chemistry of what they're doing but I also want to
3:52embolden them to try things to try experiments
3:55in their kitchen them