Food science
4 inventions in this category
Automatic rice cooker
Rice used to demand a sentry. Someone had to watch the pot, lower the flame at the right moment, and rescue the batch before starch foamed over or the...
Drink can
The drink can required four sequential solutions spanning five decades, each successful and each revealing a constraint invisible before the previous...
Espresso machine
Espresso was born from impatience. Nineteenth-century Italian cafes did not need more `coffee`; they needed faster coffee. Angelo Moriondo's 1884 Turi...
Umami
Channel catfish detect amino acid gradients in water at concentrations of parts per trillion, using taste receptor cells distributed across their enti...