Food Science: What Happens When You Cook — Questions and answers

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What was Idris mesmerized by at the pizza parlor?

Choices

  1. The chef making pizza sauce.
  2. The chef tossing a spinning circle of dough. ✓
  3. The busy customers eating pizza.
  4. The smell of baking bread.

Answer: The chef tossing a spinning circle of dough.

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What problem did Idris and her parents have with their bread dough?

Choices

  1. It was too sticky.
  2. It smelled bad.
  3. It didn't rise. ✓
  4. It was too small.

Answer: It didn't rise.

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In 1850s Paris, what did bakers and brewers hope for?

Choices

  1. That their bread would be brown and their beer would be fizzy.
  2. That their bread would rise and their beer wouldn't spoil. ✓
  3. That their bread would be sweet and their beer would be cold.
  4. That their bread would be delivered fast and their beer would be cheap.

Answer: That their bread would rise and their beer wouldn't spoil.

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Why was Louis Pasteur hired by a winery?

Choices

  1. To teach them how to bake better bread.
  2. To invent new kinds of wine.
  3. To find out why some alcohol was spoiling. ✓
  4. To help them grow more grapes.

Answer: To find out why some alcohol was spoiling.

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What did Pasteur see in the spoiled batches when he looked through his microscope?

Choices

  1. Tiny, round organisms.
  2. Large pieces of fruit.
  3. Strange, rod-shaped microbes. ✓
  4. Nothing at all.

Answer: Strange, rod-shaped microbes.

From page 5

What two things do yeast release when they 'eat' sugar?

Choices

  1. Water and oxygen.
  2. Alcohol and carbon dioxide. ✓
  3. Heat and light.
  4. Flavor and color.

Answer: Alcohol and carbon dioxide.

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What important process came from Pasteur's work that helps keep milk safe?

Choices

  1. Freezing.
  2. Refrigeration.
  3. Pasteurization. ✓
  4. Fermentation.

Answer: Pasteurization.

From page 7

What did Idris realize was the reason their bread dough didn't rise?

Choices

  1. They forgot to add salt.
  2. The water they used was too hot. ✓
  3. They didn't knead the dough enough.
  4. The yeast was too old.

Answer: The water they used was too hot.

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What causes the beautiful brown crust on bread, according to Idris's mother?

Choices

  1. The convection currents in the oven.
  2. The Maillard reaction between sugars and proteins. ✓
  3. The type of flour used.
  4. Too much sugar in the dough.

Answer: The Maillard reaction between sugars and proteins.

From page 9

What does Idris declare cooking is, after seeing the perfectly risen bread?

Choices

  1. A difficult chore.
  2. A delicious experiment combining biology, chemistry, and physics. ✓
  3. Only a job for grown-ups.
  4. Just about following a recipe.

Answer: A delicious experiment combining biology, chemistry, and physics.

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