Why it's called gluten, glutamate, gelatin, gelato, etc
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Date: 2024-02-01
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secondengineer9814
I think about how engineering probably manifested in pre-history and early history a lot. It's interesting to imagine an early human doing some material science: sticking different things in the fire to see what they do. I bet there were some people who could tell you exactly how every material they knew of would react when exposed to heat or flames. I wonder what it looked like the first time someone experimented to improve the yield and process of making birch tar
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I think about how engineering probably manifested in pre-history and early history a lot. It's interesting to imagine an early human doing some material science: sticking different things in the fire to see what they do. I bet there were some people who could tell you exactly how every material they knew of would react when exposed to heat or flames. I wonder what it looked like the first time someone experimented to improve the yield and process of making birch tar
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AdvancePlays
Love a bit of linguistics with my cooking content! Something to think about is that the PIE roots for these words don't even necessarily have to come from each other, you could make the case that they share the same sound symbolism where /g/ and /l/ together invoked this idea of sticking, freezing, coming together, becoming still, etc on some fundamental level. It's cool stuff!
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Love a bit of linguistics with my cooking content! Something to think about is that the PIE roots for these words don't even necessarily have to come from each other, you could make the case that they share the same sound symbolism where /g/ and /l/ together invoked this idea of sticking, freezing, coming together, becoming still, etc on some fundamental level. It's cool stuff!
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OEpistimon
Flour glue is a mixture of just flour and water, and it was actually a common makeshift solution for small tasks until recently in many parts of the world.
I distinctly remember the Greek comedian and actor Thanassis Veggos talking about how he once ate flour glue while doing crew work on the set of a movie, because the crew got nothing else to eat.
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Flour glue is a mixture of just flour and water, and it was actually a common makeshift solution for small tasks until recently in many parts of the world.
I distinctly remember the Greek comedian and actor Thanassis Veggos talking about how he once ate flour glue while doing crew work on the set of a movie, because the crew got nothing else to eat.
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charliesteele673
Adam, love your content. My cooking has always been enjoyably haphazard and with your help has become more so, but with a better culinary understanding of why sometimes it works!
Long-term podcast listener too! And funny to hear you in Tom Scott's 'Lateral' a while back, too.
Keep it up when you can
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Adam, love your content. My cooking has always been enjoyably haphazard and with your help has become more so, but with a better culinary understanding of why sometimes it works!
Long-term podcast listener too! And funny to hear you in Tom Scott's 'Lateral' a while back, too.
Keep it up when you can
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edwardolson8996
The comment about flour and wheat reminded me of corn and grain. In Britain one reads about corn laws, and references to corn before the discovery of the Americas, where corn originated.
But they aren't discussing what we, Americans, call corn. They are discussing the more collective, grain.
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The comment about flour and wheat reminded me of corn and grain. In Britain one reads about corn laws, and references to corn before the discovery of the Americas, where corn originated.
But they aren't discussing what we, Americans, call corn. They are discussing the more collective, grain.
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Chillaxorita
Look up the secondary definition of cleave. It's ironic how it means essentially the opposite of the definition we normally use. Also, it is probably related to the same etymological roots discussed in the video.
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Look up the secondary definition of cleave. It's ironic how it means essentially the opposite of the definition we normally use. Also, it is probably related to the same etymological roots discussed in the video.
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AquibMohammedAyman
Well the word Gelisol referring to the order of soils of higher latitudes / polar region which are permafrosted comes from the Latin word Gelare meaning to freeze.
The only gel word you missed
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Well the word Gelisol referring to the order of soils of higher latitudes / polar region which are permafrosted comes from the Latin word Gelare meaning to freeze.
The only gel word you missed
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TAT4guitar
As another potential connection between freezing and stickiness, frozen objects/substances tend to be sticky - most notably, ice.
Not claiming anything here, just a possibility.
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As another potential connection between freezing and stickiness, frozen objects/substances tend to be sticky - most notably, ice.
Not claiming anything here, just a possibility.
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owenfitch1548
When is the pod coming back Is it coming back I must've missed whatever announcement happened when episodes stopped coming out, could someone catch me up on what's going on
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When is the pod coming back Is it coming back I must've missed whatever announcement happened when episodes stopped coming out, could someone catch me up on what's going on
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iroironanihongo
Huh, only now has it occurued to me that Polish 'klej' and English 'Glue' are related. Oh, and yeah, 'klej' is pronounced exactly like 'clay', if you were wondering
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Huh, only now has it occurued to me that Polish 'klej' and English 'Glue' are related. Oh, and yeah, 'klej' is pronounced exactly like 'clay', if you were wondering
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fernandosilva6295
Hi Adam, just out of curiosity, will you ever get into the rabbit hole that is the science behind coffee brewing methods
Tks for the great content, cheers!
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Hi Adam, just out of curiosity, will you ever get into the rabbit hole that is the science behind coffee brewing methods
Tks for the great content, cheers!
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Lizard-813
This video perfectly combined three of my biggest interests in life, incredible!
Linguistics, biochemistry, and cooking. Excellently done, even if simplified.
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This video perfectly combined three of my biggest interests in life, incredible!
Linguistics, biochemistry, and cooking. Excellently done, even if simplified.
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hjewkes
Easy. Gluten was the tenth glue they tried, glutamate was the glue used for his buddy, gelatin was the tenth gel, and gelato was the gel used for potato.
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Easy. Gluten was the tenth glue they tried, glutamate was the glue used for his buddy, gelatin was the tenth gel, and gelato was the gel used for potato.
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CarolinaBloom
Let's just take a moment to appreciate how many hours and work he put into this video It's amazing, and I think they deserve way more than that!
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Let's just take a moment to appreciate how many hours and work he put into this video It's amazing, and I think they deserve way more than that!
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higherquality
yeah but glue in dutch is lijm (sounds like Lime.
Klei (the Cl from clock and the ie from die) and lijm doesn't sound like each other
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yeah but glue in dutch is lijm (sounds like Lime.
Klei (the Cl from clock and the ie from die) and lijm doesn't sound like each other
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kimdecker8901
Brilliant. And effective as a teaching tool. Adam, did you come up with that Rolo model of protein denaturation yourself Ingenious!
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Brilliant. And effective as a teaching tool. Adam, did you come up with that Rolo model of protein denaturation yourself Ingenious!
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