Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110403:11:58:00
Conduction, when you put something in something very hot. that's how a pan works. or convection, with deep fat frying or broiling, or radiation, which is how it works in a broiler. one of the things we have in the book is the cutaway picture. we have sliced through the pot, the pan, sliced through a microwave oven and show food in the middle of being cooked so we can describe how it's cooking and all of the processes that go on. and we've done this for dozens of different things. water is the basis of most cooking. water acts very strangely when you freeze it or boil it. when you boil water, i...