Comments on: Bread Science Giveaway

By: Karla Parker

Karla Parker — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:03:45 +0000

I am a culinary teacher in south Georgia and would love a copy of your book. We grind wheat and make whole wheat bread as part of our curriculum.

Joke: A true funny: One of my culinary students tried to separate the egg yolk and egg white yesterday…with a tea strainer…… I’ve almost learned never assume anything!

By: Sledet

Sledet — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:15:04 +0000

Aaaah, I am late to be considered

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:21:41 +0000

My 8th grade biology teacher, on the first day of class, told us: “I love biology. I love all the sciences, but I love biology the best, because it is juice! And if biology were a woman, I would embrace her deeply!” I learned basic intro bio from him, but also Zen koans and meditation. (Thank you, Señor Bob from St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights!)

By: Dave Reed

Dave Reed — Sun, 17 May 2009 03:55:16 +0000

My worst science class memory comes not from the class itself, but as a 14 year old in 1985 and my mother made me get what was supposed to be a “body wave” in my hair and it turned into a full-on perm! Science was my first class of the day, I sat in the front row, and when the teacher was taking roll he seriously asked where David Reed was. I have a lot of great science class memories, but an unsure adolescent boy with a perm who wasn’t recognized by his science teacher was the worst!

By: crucide

crucide — Sun, 17 May 2009 03:16:05 +0000

Funny that so many people with such a distaste for science want in. Oh, well. My personal horror stories come from high school English and college Economics, I distinctly remember taking an exam in that monstrosity several times before scraping a B. Still can’t stand the thought of it.

By: frog princess

frog princess — Sun, 17 May 2009 01:20:01 +0000

My enormous purse was on my shoulder when I turned and it knocked a glass jar full of fruit flies off my genetics instructors’ desk. Disgusting mess and stench and insects ensued.
I was too appalled to apologize or help clean up. I just slunk out.

By: davebaker

davebaker — Sat, 16 May 2009 11:50:37 +0000

In my college organic chemistry lab I lighted my Bunsen burner and mindlessly threw the still burning match in the sink. The student sharing a sink with me had just thrown some highly flammable substance into the sink and kaboom! our corner of the lab turned into a very hot spot. The lab instructor was very upset that he had to spray the place down with a fire extinguisher but fortunately the overhead sprinklers didn’t come on. It was the beginning of a long semester in the chemistry lab!

By: Jon-o

Jon-o — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:13:22 +0000

One of my favourite science class memories is from chemistry class. Like most of the science labs, we had little valves on the tables that let out blasts of high-pressure air. I never really found out what they were supposed to be used for, though they were handy for cleaning things sometimes. I once learned what they’re *not* for though: we had a very old-fashioned manometer (pressure meter) on hand – basically a U-shaped tube opened on both ends and filled with mercury. You would hook up whatever you wanted to measure to one end, and the mercury would get pushed up the tube a distance proportional to the pressure. Turns out these air valves squirt out is at very high pressure indeed – enough to push the mercury up the tube, and out the tube, and all over the room! Good thing mercury isn’t a health hazard… uh, ooops. And no, this measurement was not a school-sanctioned activity!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:29:30 +0000

My worst science class memory was discovering that my sweaty high school Biology teacher had miscalculated my grade (he gave me a ‘B’ instead of an ‘A’), and I only found out about it because a substitute teacher let us look at the grade book. Calling him out on it did not win me any Brownie points.

By: JanH

JanH — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:47:06 +0000

Senior year of high school I took an Advanced Biology class. Our class was at the same time as a freshman biology class that my younger sister was taking. Since the class was right before lunch, we often made pizzas for lunch during the class. The oven, which was actually for science projects was in the classroom of the freshman biology class. We would wander in during their class and pop our pizzas into the oven, the pull them out when done and leave all the freshman, including my sister, drooling while we went back to our classroom for pizza lunch and biology discussions.

I have this book. It is absolutely great. I have been thinking about getting my 14yo nephew a copy for his next birthday. He loves to bake and his Mom says that he will be taking up a serious study of biology and chemistry in his home schooling this year. Baking biology and chemistry would be perfect for him.