Frank’s Red Hot brand hot sauce is a Louisiana-style bottled hot sauce based on cayenne peppers. It is often claimed to be the sauce used in the original Buffalo Wings sauce. The Frank’s Red Hot Scoville Rating does not live up to it’s name. The sauce measures from 400 to 500 on the Scoville heat … Read more
Why do bottles of molasses say ‘unsuphered?’ If there was sulfur in molasses, it would smell a bit off-putting and taste a bit off, as well. Yet, some people see the word “unsulphured” on a bottle of molasses and assume that molasses must contain natural sulphur that is removed via some process by the manufacturer. This … Read more
For decades, high school biology textbooks and viral pop-science listicles have repeated a classic classroom demonstration as absolute gospel: blindfold a subject, plug their nose, and they will be completely unable to tell the difference between a piece of raw apple and a raw potato. This persistent culinary myth is typically used to support the … Read more
Many people are convinced that brown eggs taste different than white eggs. This is a myth. Brown eggs do not taste different than white eggs. And no, brown eggs are not better than white eggs in terms of quality or taste, or vice versa. This myth has persisted in America for decades, perhaps owing to … Read more
Have you ever seen a recipe involving mushrooms that did not involve pre-cooking the mushrooms? This is usually done by sauteing the mushrooms over high heat with just a little oil and salt. Putting raw mushrooms on a pizza essentially ruins it. the mushrooms taste raw, because they mostly are, while the pizza is watery … Read more
There is something about the ice cream headache or brain freeze. Maybe you know what I’m talking about. It is nothing short of agonizing, and yet as kids, we would purposely ate our ice cream cones too fast to bring one on. And then we screamed, partly in pain and partly with the thrill of … Read more