Wonderful (but long) vids about science of ingredients
These are a few years old but I was researching how to make a chewier cookie when I came across these videos. Joanne Chang offers wonderful and simple explanations in regards how ingredients behave when making a yellow cake but the concepts are the same for any product.
Also of interest to me was that the talk started with amathemetician that "phase diagramed" a large amount of recipes for brownies,pancakes,cookies and several other baked goods in order to discover whatmade them become that particular product.. It was then diagrammed for our eyes to see what our baking palates already knew -a particular baked good has a certain ratio of key ingredients that create a unique product. I know this sounds like "Duh" but actually it can help us reverse engineer or create differentproducts and there was an engineer breadbaker here that was developing a matrix for that a few years ago.
I hope you find it interesting. I'm still researching the chewy cookie question.
I always enjoy science and food together. I will check out the link.
I took that Harvard cause and it was excellent. Really changed a lot of my thinking about food.