When we eat things such fruits and vegetables, except that sometimes we cook them before eating, we usually consume these things without much technical preparation. Especially fruits, we just wash them a little bit before eating and that's it, we consume them in their natural raw state. The food we cook the most is meat... Continue Reading →
CHOCOLATE Consumption – How Cocoa Beans Become Chocolate?
Chocolate is not food. Chocolate is a material. You can create things out of chocolate exactly like you do with any other material such as plastic, metal, glass, wood, ceramics or concrete. Except that chocolate is the only one material which is delicious. It is a soft material with good enough mechanical strength, is quite... Continue Reading →
CHOCOLATE Consumption – Where does the Chocolate comes from?
Chocolate is a key ingredient in many foods such as milk shakes, candy bars, cookies and cereals. It is ranked as one of the most favourite flavours in North America and Europe. Despite its popularity, most people do not know the unique origins of this popular treat. Chocolate is a product that requires complex procedures... Continue Reading →
ALCOHOL Consumption – The Science of Wine: Savor Every Sip
Pure alcohol is a toxic stuff. Actually any drink containing alcohol if consumed regularly does not do anything good for your body. No matter what type of alcohol you drink — be it wine, beer, or liquor — it contains ethanol. When your body breaks down ethanol, it produces a carcinogen called acetaldehyde that damages... Continue Reading →
The Art of Coffee – Brewing Techniques: From Turkish to Espresso
After Water, the next most refreshment dink we consume is tea. This is obvious because Tea ingredients are actually available anywhere on the planet. Yet that’s not really the case for coffee. If I make a top 3 of the most consumed refreshment drinks by humans I have can put them precisely in this order.... Continue Reading →
How “Smart” Asphalt Can Revolutionize Road Longevity
Asphalt (bitumen) composites are the most common material used to surface roads, with 95% of EU roads paved with asphalt mixtures. Its success is due to a combination of factors that have been widely studied, such as: it creates a safe and robust road surface for driving when combined with stone aggregates and appropriate polymer... Continue Reading →
The Art of Tea: Why Tea is often made badly?
Tea is reputed to be the most popular refreshment drink in the world after water. The difference is that tea is usually served hot, while water is regularly consumed cold. Although getting reliable facts on the topic is difficult, in Britain for instance it is estimated that 165 million cups of tea are drunk on... Continue Reading →
The Art of Tea: Why making a good tea is an Art?
Among the variety of liquids consumed by humans Water is by far the Number 1 refreshment, nutritious and necessary drink ever. Drinking Water is normally just this: a transparent newtonian liquid of low viscosity with a lot of nutritious minerals, it has no taste, basically no color, no smell , it is just clean and... Continue Reading →
The Hidden Dangers of Kerosene in Air Travel – How safe is Kerosene to propel airplanes?
Each time when I travel by plane that’s for me an extreme life adventure. Simply because I am in the situation when I can not be anymore in full control of my life. I can only trust the science and knowledge of the few other people that surely must have a better knowledge than me... Continue Reading →
Understanding Liquid Properties: Viscosity, Surface Tension, and More
A liquid lacks both the strong spatial order of a solid, though it can have the high density of solids (a liquid has volume but doesn't have shape) and the absence of total disorder of a gas that results from the low density of gases i.e., gas molecules are relatively free of each other’s influence... Continue Reading →