To whom it might concern I would very much appreciate your help in gathering a list of the globally most important kitchen equipment and utensils as my knowledge here is limited to German cooking costumes and standards. For your information: in the activity there is a virtual kitchen where the child gets to chose the utensil/tool and the product. Every utensil has his parameters. If for example the child choses a pan for frying his meat, the parameters of the pan are time and temperature. As soon as the child has chosen at least one product and the utensil/tool and has set the parameters, the step will be written in the cookbook. Because I suppose, that the meals they prepare won’t be that complex and difficult, I will limit the choice (at the beginning). So first of all I need utensils, which have an impact on the texture. If anything comes to your mind and you want to add anything let me know, and thanks you four support. Here some examples:<div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "> - pot for cooking (time, temperature) - pan for frying (time, temperature) - cutting board (slice, pieces) - bowl for mixing (spoon, eggbeater) </div>- mixer/blender (smooth, coarse) <div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "> - oven (time, temperature) - cake tin (round, square, small tin, big tin) - rolling pin (how many pieces) - rasp (big, medium, small pieces) </div> <div class="gmail_quote">2011/4/23 <<a href="mailto:mokurai@earthtreasury.org">mokurai@earthtreasury.org</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Fri, April 22, 2011 5:00 am, Stefanie Nobel wrote: > Hi Walter, > > That’s an interesting point. At the beginning I also had something more like > an experimental cook studio in mind. During my research I found some funny > things, like making an own pH indicator with red cabbage, a natural pH > indicator that changes colors according to the acidity of the solution > you’re mixing with. For example when you fry your egg with a little red > cabbage juice the egg becomes green. I found several other good, but for > the moment I am not sure how to include it in our game. > > But concerning your question I can only offer a database with prepared > aliments and their nutritional values. As far as I know, there is no rule of > thumb how cooking impacts food. The impact depends on the aliment. I am > currently looking for more information on this topic, so when I find > anything I will let you know. </div>There are several books on the subject from varying points of view and for different audiences. Examples include * Let's Cook It Right (1988), by Adelle Davis * Science Experiments You Can Eat: Revised Edition (1984), by Vicki Cobb and David Cain * Amazing Kitchen Chemistry Projects You Can Build Yourself (May 1, 2008) by Cynthia Light Brown and Blair Shedd * Kitchen Chemistry - Paperback (July 1, 2005) by Ted Lister and Heston Blumenthal * What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained (May 17, 2002) by Robert L. Wolke * "The Magic School Bus Gets Baked in a Cake: a Book About Kitchen Chemistry" and "The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds: a Book About How Living Things Grow" (2-volume set) (PBS Magic School Bus) - Paperback (1994) by Patricia Relf Linda Beech and John Spiers Ted Enik * On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee * Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food by Jeff Potter * Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman * The Science Chef: 100 Fun Food Experiments and Recipes for Kids by Joan D'Amico * The Science Chef Travels Around the World: Fun Food Experiments and Recipes for Kids, by Joan D'Amico, Karen E. Drummond * The Science of Cooking - Hardcover (June 8, 2001) by Peter Barham * Food Science (Food Science Text Series) by Norman N. Potter and Joseph H. Hotchkiss (1999) * Essentials of Food Science (Food Science Text Series) by Vickie A. Vaclavik and Elizabeth W. Christian (Paperback - Nov 30, 2007) * Food Chemistry by H.-D. Belitz, Werner Grosch and Peter Schieberle (Paperback - Feb 27, 2009) * The Science of Good Food: The Ultimate Reference on How Cooking Works by David Joachim, Andrew Schloss and A. Philip Handel Ph.D. (Paperback - Oct 10, 2008) * Understanding Food Science and Technology (with InfoTrac) by Peter S. Murano (Hardcover - Sep 25, 2002) among many others that you can find on Amazon. There is also a huge scientific literature on these topics, and discussions of related subjects, such as * Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) by Hervé This and Malcolm DeBevoise (Paperback - Aug 1, 2008) <div><div></div><div class="h5"> > Stefanie > 2011/4/18 Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> > >> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Stefanie Nobel >> <<a href="mailto:stefanie.nobel@googlemail.com">stefanie.nobel@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I’m glad to present you a new project from OLPC France. For the next >> six >> > months we will develop a new playful software, which aims at educating >> > children about a healthier nutrition. >> > In this game children are taking care of an avatar by providing him >> with >> > meals, which they have to prepare before. By doing so the children are >> meant >> > to learn the importance of good nutrition for their healthy. >> > The game will be supported by Danone Research. They will not only >> finance >> > the project but also share their great knowledge on this topic with >> us. >> > >> > We’re just at the begining of the development but here is a short >> > description of our first ideas: >> > The game will be split in two parts: >> > >> > In one part the children can create their own recipes in a virtual >> > environment, similar to a “cook studio”. There is also the possibility >> to >> > share these recipes with other children. >> > The other part is for validation: Here the meal will be “validated” by >> the >> > avatar, (for example, a reaction might be, that the avatar can’t do >> homework >> > because he has not sufficient energy). >> > >> > So at first we will have to define the relevant parameters, which you >> have >> > to consider when you validate a healthy meal, for example: >> > >> > The need of the different nutritional values, >> > The nutritional value of the aliment >> > In natural and organic state and >> > after the preparation of the meal >> > The activities, the avatar/child do/did during the day >> > The season and the weather >> > The times of the meals during the day(this has an impact on the gain >> of >> the >> > food) >> > The health of the avatar/child >> > The extent of hygienic conditions when preparing the food >> > >> > >> > >> > The next step will be to collect all those information and integrate >> it >> into >> > a rough logic. >> > >> > >> > >> > So don’t hesitate to comment about this project and share your >> thoughts. >> > >> > We appreciate all kinds of input! >> > >> >> FWIW, several of us have been thinking about a different angle on a >> cooking activity, one more geared towards chemistry and the science of >> the kitchen: getting the kids to experiment with recipes, for example, >> changing the 'resting time' when making noodles from flour and water, >> and observing how this changes the consistency, flavor, etc. The >> Activity would be more like a lab notebook and set of simple data >> analysis tools than anything else, but then the kids could presumably >> photograph their results with their XO and share their successes and >> failures, and aggregate data more widely. It be interesting to fold in >> nutrition into the mix: does Danone have data we can use re how >> cooking impacts the foods we eat? >> >> regards. >> >> -walter >> >> > >> > Stefanie >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Sugar-devel mailing list >> > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> >> </div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. 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