tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post9207751399461174549..comments2024-01-30T19:45:36.648+11:00Comments on Lounge of the Lab Lemming: Phase equilibria of pie crustC W Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-17021622682813166942006-12-09T05:19:00.000+11:002006-12-09T05:19:00.000+11:00Ooops.
Here is the text without excessive linebrea...Ooops.<br />Here is the text without excessive linebreaks:<br /><i>While I concur with the fundamental validity of the researcher's paradigm, this respondent must take issue with an egregious failure of experimental design: the principal components of experimental manipulation (referred to in shorthand as "butter" and "flour") lack adequate specificity of definition.<br /><br />Thus, for instanceChristopher Gwynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13724488290931401528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-48169815922088191472006-12-09T05:16:00.000+11:002006-12-09T05:16:00.000+11:00I sent a friend of mine the link to this post. Pa...I sent a friend of mine the link to this post. Part of his reply was:<br /><i>While I concur with the fundamental validity of the researcher's<br />paradigm, this respondent must take issue with an egregious failure<br />of experimental design: the principal components of experimental<br />manipulation (referred to in shorthand as "butter" and "flour") lack<br />adequate specificity of Christopher Gwynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13724488290931401528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-21627406881887645832006-12-05T21:15:00.000+11:002006-12-05T21:15:00.000+11:00Anonymous: we discourage playing with food in our ...Anonymous: we discourage playing with food in our house, and anything in the lower 2 phase field is far enough away from the edibility field to be considered playing.<br /><br />Yami: I'm only a fan of meringues in certain traditional settings, like lemon or variations on the citrus custard. Apple pie with meringue instead of a crustal lid is, pardon the phrase, unamerican.C W Mageehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-11497677585050241532006-12-01T00:08:00.000+11:002006-12-01T00:08:00.000+11:00If you get the chance, take a small portion of the...If you get the chance, take a small portion of the mixture and push through the flour-poor dough phase boundary into the miscible slime-goop field and then down into the butter-water two phase field. I notice you have plotted a boundary with a symmetrical shape, and it has gotten me thinking about the partitioning behaviour of flour between immiscible butter and water. Will flour partition Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-52464167611782517272006-11-30T17:34:00.000+11:002006-11-30T17:34:00.000+11:00If by "lid" you mean "meringue", and I don't see w...If by "lid" you mean "meringue", and I don't see why you shouldn't, then you can.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-41599131527185889322006-11-29T08:23:00.000+11:002006-11-29T08:23:00.000+11:00Can you do lids with a graham cracker crust, or do...Can you do lids with a graham cracker crust, or does that component force you to work in an open-face system?C W Mageehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-78817941043077058892006-11-29T05:41:00.000+11:002006-11-29T05:41:00.000+11:00This is why I use graham cracker crusts - there's ...This is why I use graham cracker crusts - there's a much greater range of stable compositions. Also, it means one of my endmembers is sugar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-66612360380178739292006-11-24T10:59:00.000+11:002006-11-24T10:59:00.000+11:00Brilliant. I wonder how many other culinary system...Brilliant. I wonder how many other culinary systems are amenable to a ternary analysis? Replace water with milk and we can investigate the stability field for bechemal sauce... <br /><br />Cake, on the other hand, is a four phase system.Chris Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10923865059164569384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-15574845371250521742006-11-18T22:58:00.000+11:002006-11-18T22:58:00.000+11:00Haha! Fantastic. I may have to print out the diagr...Haha! Fantastic. I may have to print out the diagrams and put them on the kitchen wall.MissPrismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04852979700494482453noreply@blogger.com