I love that it feels like more people know more about food than ever before – and not just because it’s good for business! Understanding cooking methods, and why certain things happen the way they do, ...

The Maillard reaction – most famously known for its role in browning meat and caramelizing sugars during cooking – may have played an important role in protecting early life, new research has found.

The distinctive flavor of grilled, roasted and baked foods develops as a result of the Maillard reaction. This is a specific type of chemical reaction that occurs in hot and dry conditions between the ...

A chemical reaction that gives flavour to cooked food may lock away millions of tonnes of carbon in the seabed each year. The process might even have helped create the conditions for complex life to ...

This weekend, millions of Americans will fire up the grill and cook up steaks, hot dogs, burgers and some tofu dogs (why not). Why will folks walking by the patio stop and sniff (besides the hickory ...

A nice slice of hot toast tastes infinitely better than a boring old piece of bread to most people. But the reason why is down to a complex chemical process. The answer lies with something called the ...

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