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ANSWER KEY

PRETZEL LOGIC WITH ALTON BROWN    

Who, What, When Where, Why & How

Write in the correct answer in each blank from the following words:

“Little Reward”     24”     Acidic     Alkaline     American     Bagels     Baking Soda     Baldies     Bush     Child     Eat

Egg     Factory     Fermentation     Fungi     Gas     Gluten     Hard     Jars     Monk     Neutral     Philadelphia    

Prayers     Salt     Seeds     Soft     Tare     Vinegar     Yeast

The first pretzel was invented in 610 AD by a MONK in Aostia in the Italian Alps. 

The Monk developed the pretzel for kids that properly learned their PRAYERS for a desired treat.

The pretzel shape resembles the folded arms of a praying CHILD.

SALT is a symbol of Purity.

He called the pretzel Pretzola, which in Italian means “LITTLE REWARD”.

Pretzels are still popular and get respect in Bavaria and PHILADELPHIA,the City of Brotherly Love.

In Philly they EAT 12 times the national average.

The average AMERICAN consumes two pounds of pretzels per year.  In Philadelphia it’s more than 20 pounds.

Saltless pretzels are called BALDIES.

The SOFT pretzel is still the true pretzel.  They are soft, glossy, brown, smooth, the salt stands proud, bread inside, soft yet chewy, warm and inviting.

! package of YEAST = 2 1/2 teaspoons

Yeast are FUNGI.  Their Latin name is Saccharomyces cerevisiae which means sweet beer mold.  Yeast was named before the Greeks and Romans understood about fungi.

The process by which yeast consumes sugar and produces CO2 and ethane is called FERMENTATION,

The TARE function of a scale, zeros out the weight of the bowl before weighting out the ingredients in the bowl on the scale.

Water and Wheat proteins form GLUTEN.  This protein structure is strong enough to hold the gases from the yeast formed during fermentation.

When rolling out pretzels the target length is ~24”.  You can also make your pretzel any shape you desire.        

pH = - log 10[ H+] = - log 10 |[H+]|

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                           1 mol / L                    

pH is either a negatively or positively charged ions in a solution.

When you have equal amounts of positive and negative atoms, the solution is NEUTRAL, such as distilled water with a pH of 7.

An increase in positive atoms the pH number decreases and the solution is more ACIDIC.  Such as milk = pH of 6, black coffee = pH of 5, lemon juice = pH of 2, stomach acid = pH of 1.

An increase in negative ions the pH number increases and the solution is more ALKALINE with a pH from 8 - 14.  Such as egg whites = pH of 8, Baking Soda = ph of 9, Antacids = pH of10, Ammonia pH of 11-11.5, Bleach = pH of 12, Lye = pH of 13 which is very poisonous.

Dipping uncooked pretzels in an alkaline solution or by using BAKING SODDA and hot water will gelatinize the starches on the surface of the dough and break the proteins down to small peptide chains that will brown rapidly in the oven creating a nutty flavor and desired color.

This is the same cooking method used in making BAGELS.

This is used to brown many pastry products; l EGG yolk thinned with 1 tablespoon of water to wash the pretzel for browner color and it will also help the salt stick to the pretzel.

In 2002 the leader of the free world passed out while choking on a pretzel.  Hint:  The U.S. President in 2002 – George W. BUSH.

For a thin HARD pretzel leave out the fat and increase the water, then roll out thin.

 Mustard:  The mustard plant is related to brussels sprouts, broccoli, and cabbage and contains highly volatile phytochemical which are concentrated in the SEEDS.  When you crush them in the presence of water isothiocyanates are released which creates heat.

An introduction of an acid like VINEGAR is used to shut down this chemical reaction and the increase of heat. 

The same substances found in mustard are responsible for one of the first chemical weapons – mustard GAS.

The mustard Museum in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin is the home to more than 4,300 JARS of mustard.

  

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