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Describe the way energy changed and prepared a food that you ate or drank today.

How is heat measured?

What is heat?

List the forms of energy.

Indicate the energy involved in preparing a cheese souffle until it is served to a family.

The Commander of StarShip Feast (SFC) indicated they need to minimize energy consumption. The SFC saw no reason why they could not just shuffle energy and cooling needs back and forth within the Ship. Is this feasible to meet the diverse needs to the StarShip? Briefly discuss the basis and consideration for your answer. What is the law which the statement "Energy can not be created or destroyed" referring to.

What is the first law of thermodynamics?

Which of the following products is likely dominantly heated by conduction heating? What is the dominant form of heating for each food.
pancakes on a grill stirred custard in top of double boiler shortened cake
gingersnap cookies blueberry pancakes on grill

Identify and differentiate the speed of heat transfer of the following four cakes

*one baked in a glass square pan
*one baked in a black aluminum square pan
*one baked in a shiny aluminum round pan
*one baked in a shiny aluminum square pan

List and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the use of the microwave for the heating of foods.

In the following diagrams indicate the major form of heat transfer at the question location
-center of the chicken broth soup.
-juncture of the burner and the pan.
- surface of the broiled steaks
- surface of the baked cake

What are the implications of latent heat in food processing/preparation? (Why is it important to know something about it?
What are the roles of heating?
In discussing energy, heat transfer, temperature, what is a manner in which one can actually record and/or measure this?
What are the basic standards for temperature measurement? What measurement techniques are used? Discuss the principle involved in each.
What is temperature? How is it measured?
One day when beginning to cook the roasts, the chefs indicated they were going to heat the roasts to an endpoint temperature of 165F. Being patriotic, Hillary said they must follow the American dream of conversion to the metric system. How many degrees Celsius should the cooks roast the roasts to?
Describe how heat transfer occurs in microwave cooking. What are the implications of using a frozen foods in microwave cooking? Explain.
Since the magnetron field works as a rapidly changing magnet are there foods which will become magnetized or end up "sticking to the roof of the microwave oven" as they contain metal ions?
Do microwaves heat from the inside out or the outside in?
If one wished to heat food, would they use ionizing or non-ionizing radiation?
Does microwave cooking really heat faster than conventional cooking?
What is heating and doneness of foods. Why do you heat?
If one did not have an ovenproof hot waterbath and thus they had to place a souffle directly in the oven what would be the most likely effect?
What is the role of the waterbath in oven cooking?
What are the general effects of cooking food?

ENERGY IN, ENERGY OUT


á First Law of Thermodynamics

á Forms of Energy

á Considerations For Proper Heating of Foods

á Types of Heat Transfer

á Energy Measurement: temperature, heating curves, endpoint temperature, thermal properties


First Law of Thermodynamics

á Energy is neither created nor destroyed, only changed from one form to another.

Forms of Energy


á biological

á heat

á mechanical

á chemical

á surface and electrical


Considerations For Proper Heating of Foods

á formulation of foods amenable to heating

á control of potential microorganisms during heating

á minimization of food preparation time

á minimization of power requirements

ENERGY: Heat Transfer in Cooking, Microwave Cooking pp. 109-116, 117-125

Study Questions p. 116: 1, 2, 3a-d, 4, 5a-b, 6; p. 125: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6

EFFECTS OF COOKING FOOD


HEAT INVOLVED IN CHANGE OF STATE

solid ------- liquid ------- gas

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latent heat

latent heat of fusion

latent heat of vaporization

TYPES OF HEAT TRANSFER

Conduction

Convection Currents

Radiation

Induction Heating

MEDIA FOR HEAT TRANSFER

Air

Water

Steam

Fat

THERMOMETER SCALES

List the forms of energy.

What is the first law of thermodynamics?

In discussing thermal processes applied to foods, Lund (1977), Food Technology 31:71 published the following modified table. It would seem interesting to expand this table to include a number of other process affected by thermal input. Complete the following table to include the catagories with requisite information. Thermal processes applied to foods.
THERMAL PROCESS TEMPERATURE(oC) COMMENTS
Blanching
Gelatinization
Gelation:whole egg
Gelation: Actin
Gelation: Myosin
Gelation: Collagen
Pasteurization
*indicate approximate specific temperature A 4.8 kg defrosted (4C) turkey required 2.4 hrs to roast to an endpoint temperature of 84C. SHOW CALCULATIONS. Calculate the heating rate.


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