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    Additions to homemade Pasta and Bread

    much of the digestive system intact. It is only in the colon that bacteria metabolise inulin, with the release of significant quantities of carbon dioxide, hydrogen and/or methane. Inulin-containing foods can be rather gassy,...

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    Anyone try RedBull Cola yet?

    will not contain Coca leaves. I can only imagine that this is what Coke used to taste like when it was first invented. The ingredients are sugar, water, carbon dioxide,vanilla,lemon,lime,ginger,cardomon,orange mace, clove, and a...

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    Can anybody else "smell" fruit flies?

    's what you’re smelling. Flies and mosquitos are very good at reading carbon dioxide, and even though they’re attracted to it, when they smell too much of it, they fly away. The enzyme is dSO, short for drosophila...

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    For you soda connoisseurs...

    in the original 1970s form – simple and good. Plus, the soda isn’t overcharged with carbon dioxide, which just makes it acidic and burpy.

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    How long does an open bottle of red keep?

    , with carbon dioxide rich air which slows the oxydation process.

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    Kimchee

    upside down in some water around the rim to provide a seal against air going in but allows some of the carbon dioxide given off during fermentation to escape. Similar in concept to the airlocks used when making wine at home.

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    Blow Torch Propane or butane

    For cooking purposes, propane and butane are nearly identical. They burn at roughly the same temperature. The products of combustion are the same: water and carbon dioxide. You will not be spraying your food with anything poisonous....

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    Belhaven ale

    Nitro tap is when the gas used to expel the beer from the keg is a certain mixture of nitrogen and carbon dioxide designed to produce a somewhat ‘creamy’ texture of small bubbles (ala Guinness or Boddington’s)....

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    Coffee Bean Explosion

    If you have very fresh coffee on your hands, they are outgassing carbon dioxide, a natural product of the roasting process. I roast coffee beans at home, and when I roast up a new batch I have to leave the lid on very loosely for...

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    Hondarribi Zuri

    assume it’s not intended, like some Linne Calodo zin blends. I assume its carbon dioxide. Is the CO2 produced in the fermentation process and certain wines are just put in barrel/tank before all the CO2 gets released?

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    Baking Soda to Reduce Acidity of Tomato Sauce

    If the mineral water you’re talking about is the fizzy kind, the net effect would be adding acidity. The carbon dioxide (present as bubbles) forms carbonic acid in the water. Of course heating it would raise the pH again by...

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    Teflon vs other non-stick surfaces

    Something is fishy about your linked site. It claims CFCs are major greenhouse gases. Wrong. (Note that that site appears to be anti water fluoridation.) The major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor....

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    Local Eating Facts? (moved from Ontario)

    be a study that finds that apples imported from New Zealand create fewer carbon dioxide emissions than apples grown here in Ontario. Or that “organic” garlic imported from China leaves less of a carbon footprint than...

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    Cheapest Guinness in Montreal?

    St-Ambroise Oatmeal Stout as well as their Cream Ale is always pushed with nitrogen. You can’t get those tiny bubbles with carbon dioxide.

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    molecular gastronomy / other creative cooking in SF

    Pop Rocks are just sugar which has been melted in a high-pressure carbon dioxide atmosphere and then allowed to cool, trapping CO2 bubbles which are released when the sugar dissolves in your mouth. They seem a lot less spooky to...

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