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パンと方程式

  本題の前に本日のお茶。

 お茶は静岡茶。お茶請けはプリマエールさんのチョコレート。左からメイヤーレモンとホワイトチョコ、グレープフルーツピーとミルクチョコ。天草晩柑とビターチョコ。後者2種は2本ずつ麿さんへ。思った以上にビターテイストだった。

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 して、これは過去のブログから。一部切り捨てでほぼそのまま転載。

 

2011-08-24(水) この条件で作られたものを食べてみたい 
  

 面白い記事見っけ。リンク切れしているとイヤなので、転載しとく。


 CRUMBS... SCIENTISTS REVEAL HOW TO MAKE PERFECT TOAST

 IT could be the best thing since sliced bread ? a formula for the perfect toast.

 Scientists yesterday revealed the mathematical precision required which shows it is best cooked for exactly 3 minutes and 36 seconds.

 Their study found this amount of time created the perfect “golden-brown” colour with the “ultimate balance of external crunch and internal softness”.

 The optimum thickness of the bread should be 14mm and the ideal amount of butter 0.44 grams per square inch.

 The toaster dial must also be set to five out of six on a 900-watt appliance to achieve a temperature of 154C. Once the perfect slice has popped out it should be buttered immediately, sliced once diagonally, and then served on a plate warmed to 45C, to minimise condensation beneath the toast.

 Study leader Dr Dom Lane, a consultant food researcher, spent a week toasting and tasting 2,000 slices to find the right cooking formula. He found if more or less than 216 seconds was taken to cook the toast, it would lose the desired 12:1 exterior to interior crispiness.

 The best bread to toast he found was a pale seeded loaf taken fresh from a fridge at 3C. And both sides had to be cooked at the same time rather than on one side to help “curtail excessive moisture loss”.

 Britons chomp their way through more than 94 million slices of toast daily but many of them are spoiled by burning or under cooking.

 The study for Vogel’s bread firm polled 1,913 people and found the nation’s preferred shade of toasted bread was “builder’s brew”.

 Dr Lane said: “Taking the most popular mid-point toast tone and the complicated maths, we derived the formula for the perfect slice of toast.
 It was then relatively straight-forward to develop a five-step process, allowing toast lovers to replicate our laboratory method in their own kitchens.”

 Britons chomp their way through more than 94 million slices of toast daily.

 

 一番最後はおまけみたいなもんだけど。

 ん?何が書いてあるか分からない?おいしいトーストを焼く方程式の記事だよ、これ。日本人が炊飯器を改良する感覚と似ていると思わんか?
 
 知っている人は知っているだろう。料理は方程式で表すことが出来るということを。「調理=複数材料や処理工程による物質の変化(つまり化学変化)」であるならば、物理や化学、数学に生物というジャンルに分解出来なくはないからね。
 数式とか見ていると、宗教や哲学、倫理といったものよりも科学の方が余程「神なる存在」を示せていると思う。

 しかし、経験と感覚がものを言う領域に関しては、魔法の一言で片付けられるだろう。そこまで科学的に解明してしまうとつまらぬからな。