Chocolat Obfuscated...
Overview
Explore the culinary landscape and see if you can solve the following scientific obfuscation of a common cooking recipe. The procedure was taken from an article by K. M. Reese in the June 19, 1995 issue of Chemical and Engineering News.
To a 2 L jacketed round bottom reactor vessel (reactor #1) with an overall heat-transfer coefficient of about 100 Btu/F·ft²·hr add one, two, and three with constant agitation. In a second 2 L reactor vessel with a radial flow impeller operating at 100 rpm flow add four, five, six, and seven until the mixture is homogeneous. To reactor #1 add eight followed by three equal portions of the homogeneous mixture in reactor #2. Additionally, add nine and ten slowly with constant agitation. Care must be taken at this point in the reaction to control any temperature rise that may be the result of an exothermic reaction. Using a screw extruder attached to a #4 nodulizer place the mixture piecemeal on a 316 SS sheet (300 x 600 mm). Heat in a 460 K oven for a time period that is in agreement with Frank & Johnston's first order rate expression (see JACOS, 21, 55), or until golden brown. Once the reaction is complete, place the sheet on a 25 °C heat-transfer table allowing the product to come to equilibrium.
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Connections
The actual procedure for the common recipe is given above; the ten ingrediants in the recipe are listed below. Try to assign these numbered ingrediants to the following lists of common household names. Caution - not all of the common names are used in the recipe.
- 236.6 mL partially hydrogenated tallow triglyceride
- 4.9 cm³ crystalline C12H22O11
- 177.45 mL unrefined C12H22O11
- 4.9 mL methyl ether of protocatechuic aldehyde
- Two calcium-encapsulated avian albumen-coated protein
- 236.6 mL de-encapsulated legume meats (sieve size #10)
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