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Wednesday 17 June 2015

WhItE egg Or bRoWn egg???? is there any difference... nope:p









 

There are all sorts of rumors surrounding brown eggs and white eggs. Some people say that brown eggs are better for you and contain more nutrients; some people think brown eggs taste better; some think that brown eggs taste better; some think that brown eggs are better for cooking things like quiches, while white eggs are better for baking cakes( or vice versa, depending on who you talk to).
In truth, brown or white , eggs are the same on the inside, with one minor caveat which we’ll get to in a minute that has nothing to do with whether the chicken is a brown egg layer or white. But besides that caveat, a brown egg or a white egg will give you the same amount of nutrition, they taste the same, and they are equally delicious in quiches & cakes.

 How the rumors started about brown eggs being”better” is thought to be because they are often more expensive at supermarkets. If something costs more, it has a better quality or better for you, right? Not in this case( and not in many others either—increasing the price of something, sometimes drastically, is an occasionally used marketing trick to get people to think one product is better than a comparable cheaper product. Sometimes that’s not true, but many it’s not.)
There is also a commonly told myth that brown eggs taste better, and thats why they are more expensive. As noted, this white egg/ brown egg taste difference is a myth. But the potential difference in taste from one egg to another does lead us to our one caveat, though it isn’t anything to do with the colour of the egg- rather, it has to do with the chicken’s diet. Many chickens raised at home are brown- egg layers, while most of the chickens raised for commercial use are white egg layers. The different diets affect the taste of the eggs and even the colour of the yolk, similar to how diet can drastically affect the taste of the meat of some animal.

what causes PASTA to froth??????




We have all done it: you put the pasta on to the boil, turn your back for a few minutes to wipe off the counter or read a newspaper and suddenly you hear that foreboding hissing sound of water boiling over.
So why does this happen????
It has everything to do with the composition of pasta.

Pasta is made from 
1. Flour
2. water.
3. sometimes egg....
 
 That means it is basically just starch and protein rolled out into different shapes and dried. It’s the starch molecules that are important. Once they are heated in a moist environment-like a pot of water- starch will absorb more and more water until it finally bursts. That sends little starch molecules into your water, resulting in white foam.


It's the foam layer on top that causes the problems. What has happened is the starch makes the bubbles that were already there more stretchy and pliable, so it takes longer for them to burst. A lot of bubbles on the surface doesn't allow for proper ventilation of steam. Meaning the pot of boiling water boiling water becomes superheated of the pot isn't stirred out the frothy bubbles to expand and pop up, resulting in boiling- hot pasta water over your stove if not carefull :p


Tuesday 16 June 2015

Deadly DiHyDrOgEn MoNoOxIdE!!!

 


A major component of acid rain, an accelerator of corrosion and the rusting of metals, found in the tumors of cancer patients, a contributor to the greenhouse effect, fatal if inhaled, and capable of causing serious burns in the right circumstances, colorless, odorless and tasteless dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO) is responsible for thousands of deaths each year.
An exercise in perspective, by focusing simply on the negative, we can easily be tricked into thinking just about anything is bad, even something as necessary to life as water, made of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, hence dihydrogen monoxide. And thanks to a few precocious people, at different times over the last few decades, that is precisely what happened.
One of the earliest dihydrogen monoxide hoaxes was printed on April 1, 1983, in the Durand Express, a weekly newspaper in Shiawassee County, Michigan. The article warned the populace that inhaling the chemical “nearly always results in death,” and its “vapors … cause severe blistering of the skin which can be fatal if extensive.” By the end of the article, however, it was revealed that the dangerous chemical was, in fact, just water.
With the dawn of the internet, the chemically savvy continued to prey on the ignorant, and by 1994, internet jokers pretended to have serious conversations about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. One of the earliest fake organizations, eventually called the Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide, was formed by students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1989.
Early claims included: “Millions of gallons of the stuff are sprayed on fruits and vegetables. Do you want your children eating that stuff?” It was an “invisible killer” that was “found in almost every stream, lake and reservoir in America,” and that the U.S. Navy was “designing multi-billion dollar devices to control and utilize it during warfare situations [and even that] research facilities receive tons of it through a highly sophisticated underground distribution network.”
These early sites also noted that this “hazardous chemical” was used “as an industrial solvent and coolant . . . in many forms of animal research . . . in the distribution of deadly pesitcides . . . [and] as an integral part of the operation of nuclear power plants.” They also claimed that although it could damage concrete, erode natural landscapes and interfere with the operation of automobile brakes, it was still used “as a fire retardant” and “an additive in certain junk foods and other food products.”
Funny now, at the time, some people were truly deceived. In fact, one hoax in 1997 was so convincing, its four teenage masterminds were arrested and nearly faced criminal charges.
The young men, aged 14 to 16, distributed fliers in the Wylie Heights neighborhood outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that carried warnings that dihydrogen monoxide was responsible for “severe hydration, frequent urination and possible death.” They included an 800 number on the flier (that directed the caller to a telephone sex business) and listed the name of the father of a classmate as a “county health inspector.” After the “health inspector” received several calls from distraught people, some of whom got mad at him, he called the police. The teens were eventually identified when they blabbed to his son, their classmate. Although they were not ultimately charged, they were forced to go door-to-door to apologize.

Also in 1997, Nathan Zohner, a 14-year-old student at Eagle Rock Junior High in Idaho Falls, Idaho, as part of a science project called “How Gullible Are We?” warned 50 of his classmates of the “dangers” of DHMO and asked them to join his effort to ban DHMO. He was able to get 43 to sign his petition.
Besides average citizens and middle school students, sometimes even public officials have been fooled. In March 2004, the City Council of Aliso Viejo, California, had planned to take up a ban on foam cups because of “environmental concerns . . . [of] the danger posed by dihydrogen monoxide, described as a chemical used in production of the [foam cups] that can threaten human health and safety.” Blaming the initiative on “a paralegal who did bad research,” the city’s manager pulled the proposed law from the agenda prior to any vote.




Monday 15 June 2015

HuMaN FaCtS:P



*          Astronauts cannot burp. This is because there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomach.
*          Mothers day is the third most popular holiday in the world, second only to Christmas and easter.
*          Adult lungs have a surface area of area of around 70 square meters.
*          As well as having unique fingerprints, humans also have unique tongue prints.
*          The human brain uses up about 20% of the body’s entire oxygen and calories.
*          Apart from identical twins every single person on earth has unique smell.
*          You are about 1cm shorter at night because the cartilage between your bones is compressed throughout the day.

Sunday 7 June 2015

whoooooooooooooo!!!!....... 15 interesting facts!!!!

   

Animals…

 #      Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
#      Despite the hump, a camel’s spine is straight.
#      Ants do not sleep.
#      A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head.
#      A mosquito has 47 teeth.
#      The heart of giraffe is two feet long, and can weigh as much as twenty four pounds.
#      Lobster’s have blue blood.
#      Shark’s teeth are literally as hard as steel.
#      Sharks are immune to cancer.
#      Cheetah’s can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/hr in 3 secs.
#      The animal with the largest brain in relation with the body is the ant.
#      The leg bones of the bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
#      Octopuses have three hearts.
#      A bee has five eyelids