Baking is a science. Understanding what each ingredient does and knowing a little bit of chemistry can help you improve your skills.
Using a typical chocolate chip cookie recipe, Here & Now‘s Scott Tong and Lesa Tran, chemistry professor at Rice University who teaches a class on the chemistry of cooking, talk about how flour, sugars, and other ingredients come together to create the perfect cookie.
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