NFS 1072 A (CRN: 12481)
Nutrition and Food Sciences: Kitchen Science
3 Credit Hours—Section is Full.
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About NFS 1072 A
Integrated lecture-lab course that explores the scientific concepts underlying why foods do what they do in the kitchen. Applications include topics such as ice cream, gluten, and molecular gastronomy. Labs and final project provide opportunities to design, conduct, and evaluate experiments investigating culinary phenomena. Prerequisite: Nutrition and Food Sciences major or Instructor permission.
Notes
Nutrition and Food Sciences major or instructor permission Open to Degree and PACE students
Section Description
Ever wonder why you add baking soda to chocolate chip cookies? Or what exactly gluten is and why its properties are so difficult to mimic? Or why chocolate melts in your mouth, but not in your hand? Or why cutting an onion brings tears to your eyes, and whether the way you cut it makes any difference? Or what makes sticky rice sticky? Or why some cheeses get beautifully gooey when melted and others turn into a chunky, greasy mess? In this course, we use science to unlock the mysteries of food and cooking. We’ll explore the scientific principles that underlie culinary phenomena and apply them to explain the properties of foods and how certain food preparation techniques work. The class is structured as an integrated class and lab – one of the best things about exploring science in the kitchen is getting to see, feel, and in some cases, taste scientific principles at work! Our laboratory activities will give you hands-on opportunities to put scientific principles to the test in the kitchen. Although this is not a cooking class, you can use what you learn in your own kitchen to better understand recipes and come up with your own culinary creations. This course fulfills the N2 Natural Science with Lab requirement. Non-NFS majors should email Professor Almstead (Laura.Almstead@uvm.edu) to be put on a waiting list for the course.
Section Expectation
There are no required materials for this course. Readings and lab materials will be provided as PDFs or weblinks on Brightspace.
Evaluation
Assessments include pre-class reading questions, pre-lab questions and lab write-ups, quizzes, and engagement
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