Food Science Day: 28th August

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Notice is hearby posted of the Freakytriggers first annual Food Science Day on Sunday 28th August, to take place on Peckham Rye and a nearby kitchen. Find out what fruit can be thrown the furthest. Marvel at the Omelet of 1000 Eggs. Be scared by the Salad of 1000 Eyes. See how many fish can be stuffed inside each other...

Food science day will be dedicated to Liz, whose was instrumental in its invention, and we hope we can honour her memory by being silly with food.

Meet at 2pm at The Clock House on Peckham Rye, details:
http://www.fancyapint.com/main_site/thepubs/pub1684.htm

If you have any other ideas for food based science to take place on the day, please post them here.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link

― robster (robster), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

How about "smear the fishpaste on the artwork"?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

If we could afford a whole tuna then we could fill it with thousands of whitebait!

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Jelly wanging?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

But what can we stuff the whitebait with?

― robster (robster), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

That's the Sunday, right? Will be in Reading that day. Experiencing the RAWK. (Good thing if there's going to be all that fish involved.)

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link

That part escaped my logic Rob. I am not a scientist.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link

which cheese bounces the highest please

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link

There might be some roe left from the omelet of 1000 eggs.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link

CLearly BabyBel, I have seen the advertorial.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link

well that was always going to be the favourite, but we must do TESTs. those little austrian processed smoked cheesey sossidges might do well.

imagine a cheese graph

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm afraid my whole cheese bounce experiments came to an end when I stopped working at sainsnbsuuteys. Gouda, I think was doing well. Edam was disappointing.

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Do red and white wine make rose when mixed? A simple question but not one I can remember actually trying.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link

some sort of Princess/Pea predicament perhaps

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't they obliterate each other in some sort of anti-matter explosion, like when you have a red wine spill and you have to put white wine on it?

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I have tried that Tom, but, understandably, I was too drunk to make a decent taster at the time.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link

That is the other option Pete yes. Nobody said Food Science Day was without risk.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link

i think the white+red=rose works in the right context. say The Polar Bear on a friday night in the middle of the month

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

experiments proposed earlier:

fried boiled eggs
fried scrambled poached boiled eggs (needs hot oil, a wok and INDUSTRIAL GOGGLES)*
salad of all the eggs
salad of all the EYES (advanced only)
is cheese better fried part two

is avocado nature's butter (three parts)?
i. make an omelette w. avocado instead of butter
ii. bake a cake w. avocado instead of butter
iii. luckily i forgot what part three was

*do not try this at home ie TAKE IT TO YOUR FRIEND'S HOUSE

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link

and one brave member of the team will be attempting a Heston Blumenthal recipe (details tbc)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah yes, is avocado nature butter was urgent and key...

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I've fried hard boiled egg! I won't spoil it for you by divulging the results.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Fat, duck.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Dat, fuck.

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

The 'red + white = rose?' experiment is a good one. We will need some blindfolds and a selection of willing tasters.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

i think we need a laundry hamper full of blindfolds (also clothes-pegs for noses)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link

plus ear-plugs, all-over touch-retardant bodysuits and last but not least GAGS

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link

hoho i kill me

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

it appears there were these two gentlemen and one of these gentlemen was a horse and the other gentlmen was a woman working at a public house. now this first gentlemen, who was a horse, walks into the public house and greets the other gentlemen. and this second gentlemen enquires of the first "Why the long face?"

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Is it possible to prove the bestness of lard?

― Jaq (who is not a balding Frenchman) (Jaq), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link

This is so not going to be safe for vegetarians, is it?

Sigh.

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Its certainly not safe for fruit.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Some friends of mine in the US once conducted a 'which is the best brown soda?' experiment that I think would bear updating with a similar sampling of the UK market. They took into account all the usual taste-related factors as well as value-for-money.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link

This might just be the greatest day EVER!

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link

i haf teh envee

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Get lots of bottle of fizzy pop. Shake them lots and lots and lots. Then open them and see which one is fizziest. I don't know how to do this, but I you could graph fizz power on some sort of volume evacuated/speed science.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link

ii. bake a cake w. avocado instead of butter

i've had one of these!! two weeks ago i had an avocado and raspberry cake. it was really, really nice.

sadly we're in france on the 28th, so we won't be able to be at this :-(

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 19 August 2005 06:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I think there will definately be some sort of fizzy pop/soda showdown.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Duck in chocolate orange, please.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:53 (eighteen years ago) link

DONE!

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:55 (eighteen years ago) link

was the third one meringue made w.avocado?

or SOUFFLE!!?

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 19 August 2005 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link

root beer v dandelion and burdock

also will we be feeding pop rocks and diet pepsi to a cat. and bread/bicarb mix to pigeons?

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 19 August 2005 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link

before the old woman eats the horse make the horse eat 12 packets of space dust!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 19 August 2005 12:55 (eighteen years ago) link

This sunday suckers!

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 26 August 2005 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link

can you do diet coke v light coke taste tests. double blind please.

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link

We'll be doubly blinding people as a matter of course.

As a matter of main course. I was very convinced by Porkpie's method for the duck a la chocolate orange anyway.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm happy to be the subject of the experiement to find out how many pieces of fried chicken, bought by ilx0rs, can a chinese boy of age 25 eat

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

This is so not going to be safe for vegetarians, is it? sigh

you should perhaps suggest a vegetarian experiment!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link

oh wait you'll be in reading anyway?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm going to have trouble sourcing stuff for my secret bit as I'm having to scrub my Borough market trip :o(

Projects a nd b should be ok though, that's just chocolate (pete - were you getting the stuff for D a l C-O??)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Having been given full details of the culinary Frankenstein's monster due to be unleashed today I'm slightly relieved I'm not able to make this.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 28 August 2005 11:24 (eighteen years ago) link

How can I get to Peckham in half an hour from deepest Renfrewshire, then? This sounds teh aceness. I shall conduct an experiment to see how drunk I can get on only four alkyholic beverages this afternoon - I take it bouze science is acceptable? (I have a voucher for four free drinks from my local hostelry and no real money).

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 28 August 2005 11:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I gather bouze science is also planned. The results will be horrific.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

The results of four free drinks were not horrific. Therefore it has been proven BY SCIENCE that I am a big old alky and I need lots of booze to be drunk.

Actually I only had three. And I'm sure they were watered down.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I had to leave early as I have work tomorrow, but there was some serious science being thrown down.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link

A scientific triumph, even if the really dangerous bouze science was not attempted.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 29 August 2005 08:09 (eighteen years ago) link

more! more! tell us what happened. would've loved to come to this but i had to be in reading dressed as a giant bear.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 29 August 2005 09:31 (eighteen years ago) link

perhaps i should go and look at freakytrigger.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 29 August 2005 09:41 (eighteen years ago) link

There's nothing there yet, because we don't have the pictures yet, but tomorrow to Friday will be FOOD SPECIAL on FT with the reports from food science day, photos, food-related MP3s and other things about food.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 29 August 2005 09:44 (eighteen years ago) link

KILL THE BEAR!!! KILL THE BEAR!!! (BREAK ITS LEGS!!!!!)

Sorry. So how did this go, huh?

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link

There was a surprise winner in the fruit aerodynamics experiment. Also, a classic Pete lie turned out to be true.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 07:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Results, please! With pictures if poss.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 07:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, a classic Pete lie turned out to be true.

The words 'end' and 'times' spring to mind.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 08:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Details shall be going up sporadically over the next couple of days, when initial work rush dies down.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 09:15 (eighteen years ago) link

oi! no do not break bear's legs! bluddy hell. apparently i got double flying kicked, how did i not fall over? the redhead pain thing perhaps. i do have one lovely bruise on my arm, but i think that's from wearing the cage rather than being beaten up.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:00 (eighteen years ago) link

(You narrowly avoided being on the guest list tonight as "Emma the Bear" because that is how Ver Stooges know you!)

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Ver Stooges know you!

*splutters*

*reels*

*collapses*

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:10 (eighteen years ago) link

We are derrailing this thread. How about Bear meat? Can you eat bearmeat?

(Whether you can eat Emsk is another story.)

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:14 (eighteen years ago) link

can you eat meat bare?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:17 (eighteen years ago) link

not if you buy it from morrisons. they normally have feathers and fur still attached.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:18 (eighteen years ago) link

personally i can't bear bear meat bare. etc.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:21 (eighteen years ago) link

i can't bear rare rare bear rear meat bare

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:25 (eighteen years ago) link

i can't bear share rare rare bear bare rear meat bare

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link

sorry wrong thread

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link

When I say Emsk is a bear in the morning, I mean...

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:34 (eighteen years ago) link

...she's unusually hairy?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:35 (eighteen years ago) link

i would just like to state that i am not unusually hairy.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Just unusually GINGER. ;-)

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:57 (eighteen years ago) link

and that isn't to say that you're usually hairy

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost

also: less hair more food science please

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm going to have to hide now in case Emsk is upset.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:03 (eighteen years ago) link

how much food science can you take????

http://photobucket.com/albums/a201/FreakyTrigger/food%20science%20day/?start=all

sorry photos untagged at the mo, as i have little idea as to WTF is going on in the majority of them...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Cor that pineapple took a beating!

And please tell me that is some attempt at a pie pie? Or is it some sort of cake experiment?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Sing the theme to Moonraker. Go on, have a go. You can't, can you? No one can.

-- Michael Jones (tourajsig...), August 30th, 2005. (MichaelJ) (later)

Moonraker, wider than a mile,
I'm crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you're going I'm going your way.
Two drifters off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end--
waiting 'round the bend,
my huckleberry friend,
Moonraker and me.

-- n/a (nu...), August 30th, 2005. (Nick A.) (later)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

oops! wrong thread!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

It's no accident that grenades are pineapple-shaped.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link

The Green Eggs...
http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2005_08_01_wedge_archive.html#112541698853136795

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link

!!!!!!!!!!

― geeta, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

TEN HOUR MEETING has prevented me contributing to FSD today. And will tomorrow probably. But on Thursday the results of the Red/White/Rose cocktail challenge will SHOCK AND STUN the scientific world.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

The main event! (includes BAR CHART)

http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/proven/index.html#112557525160768884

Lychees on toast (do you see)

http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/index.html#112549923721798674

We didn't do this one:

http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2005_08_01_pumpkinpublog_archive.html#112548865734293966

Nature's butter:

http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/proven/index.html#112542511082645628

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link

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