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protein is in your muscles, bones, skin, hair and actually in every part of your body. It forms part of the enzymes that start many chemical processes, and also of the hemoglobin that carries oxygen through your blood. So people call proteins the basic elements of life. If you eat them they split into amino … Read more

Note: Here some bits from real descriptions and conversations about butter, gathered from different books and pages. When you beat cream until it simply stays with its main parts, fat, proteins and cream… You get butter. It stays at room heat a bit between soft and easily spread with around 81% of butter fat. Butter: … Read more

When one does baking, you often need to convert measures from one type to another. In recipes one switches between cups, grams ounces and many other units, depending on the land or region of origin. That happens because the world does not have one single standard, United States use their usual units, United Kingdom has … Read more

Pork Shoulder comes from the front part of the pig. Although one sometimes calls it pork butt, it genuinely comes from the shoulder region. The real back part of the pig is called the ham. So pork butt and Pork Shoulder are basically the same, although stores sometimes label them wrong. One commonly will sell … Read more

Spiral ham is ham with bone, cut spiral around the bone. The meat stays set to it, but those spiral slices ease the serving. Here the advantage: the glaze with sugar sticks down in all splits, so each bite gives wonderful taste. The cutting happens by machine, like a lathe, that forms one long spiral … Read more

Microwaves work by sending short radio waves that make molecules of water, sugar and fat in the food vibrate quickly. That vibration makes heat, that cooks the food. But microwaves go only around 2 to 4 centimetres into the food. For thicker bits the centre does not get direct hit from the waves. In those … Read more

meal preparation is made up of the process of planning the cook of meals or recipes, later share them for easy take and go for usage later. For instance, if you ever filled leftovers of dinner for the next day for lunch, that already is kind of simple meal preparation. Usually one cooks some portions … Read more

Capon is a male chicken, that one castrated physically or chemically to improve the quality of its meat. Usually one does the operation at early age occasionally during the third month of the bird’s life or even in three weeks. After castration, the bird can grow bigger than average chickens. Because of absence of sex … Read more

In 1962, Glen Bell launched the first Taco Bell in Downey, California, and today it forms part of the huge empire Yum! Brands. The chain foods offer Mexican inspired items, imagine tacos, burritos, quesadillas nachos and the whole range. Here the weird detail: the original store of Bell did not offer tacos. In the start … Read more

The word “macro” comes from Greek roots, that shows “long” or “big” (so everything that appears great), heavy or especially visible. The point is that this word appears everywhere, when one starts to think. In computing it works one way, in food and nutrition otherwise, while photographers give it his separate spin. For this word … Read more