Carla Ramsdell
- Oct 1, 2020
Carla Ramsdell
- Sep 9, 2020
The Kitchen gadget under $10 that will improve your cooking efficiency… Double-Decker cooking!
“Single-Pot Cooking” usually involves dumping a bunch of ingredients together into the same pot like a stew or rice mixture. This...
Carla Ramsdell
- Apr 11, 2020
What’s the most sustainable skillet?
Many years ago, when I began my work as a food physicist, I became intrigued with the range of choices available when buying a new...
Carla Ramsdell
- Dec 18, 2019
The physics of the Instant Pot – Cheap food, energy efficient, healthy, easy and YUMMY!
With the holiday season upon us, I get a lot of questions about electric pressure cookers such as the Instant Pot. These cooking...
Carla Ramsdell
- Nov 17, 2019
Travel Mug Pasta! Fun, easy, fast food cooked “passively”!
If you own an insulated travel coffee mug, you have a powerful pasta cooking tool at your fingertips that can cut cooking and cleaning...
Carla Ramsdell
- Apr 30, 2019
A look back at the history of our greenhouse gases - CO2 over 800,000 years!
Spoiler… This blog post has no recipe. It is a short intermission from all food-focused entries to show a graph I think every human...
Carla Ramsdell
- Feb 12, 2019
What's more energy efficient...A Gas or Electric Range?
A frequent question I receive is if gas or electric stove-tops are more efficient. As with many of these questions, the answer is a very...
Carla Ramsdell
- Jan 8, 2019
How does an electric INDUCTION cooktop work?
In the past, there used to be only two mainstream options for stovetop burner selection: Electric resistance and Gas flame. Now there’s...
Carla Ramsdell
- Jun 12, 2017
Camping with Physics!
I went on a great camping outing and had my morning coffee with the help of...physics. This is a great camp stove that transforms the...
