2.1M views · Sep 20, 2023 · 22:48 · 1 HN recommender · 3 mentions · discussed 2023–2024
The Thought Emporium synthesizes chicken noodle soup from pure chemicals, following an original patent for artificial chicken flavor. The video explores how many chemicals it takes to make a convincing soup.
Why Hacker News points people here: Brought up in threads on synthetic food and flavor as a fun example of building a dish from chemicals.
“There's a great recent Thought Emporium video where he synthesizes chicken noodle soup from pure chemicals”HN comment, 2023
“There's a great recent Thought Emporium video where he synthesizes chicken noodle soup from pure chemicals”
Synthesizing chicken noodle soup from pure chemicals
There's a great recent Thought Emporium video where he synthesizes chicken noodle soup from pure chemicals: this video
“wat. Did you watch the same video?”
wat. Did you watch the same video? this video Here's a simple test you can try yourself: put some food in your mouth and hold your nose. What do you taste? Now do it again with your nose not blocked. Try this for various foods. I got this from Science and Cooking: link The first chapter talks about how aroma is a component of flavor and you can use this test to identify if your ingredients are giving you taste (tongue) or aroma molecules (nose)
“See thought emporium for "chicken flavored soup" on that.”
Artificial chicken flavor soup recipe
I wonder more and more why we even go down that path. "Like meat" is hitting the consistency more and more and you can create the flavor artificially. See thought emporium for "chicken flavored soup" on that. Recipe for diy this video
