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Episode 158: Pizza Is Already Flat
Cooking Issues
English - February 18, 2014 17:56 - 51 minutes - 35.1 MB - ★★★★ - 407 ratingsFood Arts Technology cooking issues dave arnold nastassia lopez heritage radio network food science museum of food and drink food tech call-in show listener questions cooking advice Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 157: Bread Baking & Bloody Marys
Next Episode: Episode 159: Vacuum Sealing & Ice Cream
Cooking Issues is taking submissions for new theme songs! On this week’s episode, Dave Arnold and Nastassia Lopez talk to the food safety concerns of MSG, and talk about making sour apricot sodas without using alcohol. Is sodium benzoate effective in stabilizing fruit juices? How can you evaluate the safety of koji? Learn how crustaceans reproduce, and how fisherman deal with producing female lobsters. This episode has been brought to you by Fairway Market.
“When a lobster fisherman catches a buried lobster, they throw it back. A buried lobster is a producing female, and that’s their bread and butter!” [37:00]
— Dave Arnold on Cooking Issues