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Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science (chemistry) 
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Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science (chemistry)
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Harvard University 
Overview

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about food molecules and how chemical reactions can affect food texture and flavor.

Duration

16 weeks

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

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Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science (chemistry)
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Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science (chemistry)
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Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • The scientific concepts that underlie everyday cooking and haute cuisine techniques
  • How to apply principles of physics, engineering, and chemistry to cooking
  • How to become an experimental scientist in your own kitchen
  • How to think like a chef AND a scientist
More about this course
  • During each week of this course, chefs reveal the secrets behind some of their most famous culinary creations often right in their own restaurants
  • Inspired by such cooking mastery, the Harvard team will then explain the science behind the recipe
  • Topics will include: how molecules influence flavor; the role of heat in cooking; diffusion, revealed by the phenomenon of spherification, the culinary technique pioneered by Ferran Adrià
  • Learner will also have the opportunity to become an experimental scientist in very own laboratory your kitchen
  • By following along with the engaging recipe of the week, taking precise measurements, and making skillful observations, learner will learn to think like both a cook and a scientist
  • The lab is certainly one of the most unique components of this course
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Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science (chemistry)
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Curriculum

Molecules, moles, flavor, and pH

Energy, temperature, and heat

Phase transitions

Diffusion and Spherification

Heat Transfer

Candy

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Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science (chemistry)
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Faculty details

Michael Brenner
Designation : Glover Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics and Harvard College Professor
David Weitz
Designation : Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Department of Physics
Pia Sörensen
Designation : Preceptor of Science and Cooking and HarvardX Fellow, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Department of Physics

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