Pop shower
As a bang shower - also known as Knisterbrause , Bang or Knisterzucker , Peta Zeta and other brand names - one calls in the molecular cuisine with sugar enclosed carbon dioxide -Bläschen.
history
Pop sugar was invented in 1956 by the American food chemist William A. Mitchell . For the General Foods Corporation in New Jersey , he was looking for a way to make powdered lemonade. However, since this did not work with the cracked sugar, the company was initially not interested in using the new product. It was not until 1976 that the idea of adding flavors to sugar and marketing it as a sweet came up.
Manufacture and properties
To make it, the sugar is heated until it becomes liquid. It is then exposed to carbon dioxide under high pressure (40 bar ) and then cooled.
When chewing or sucking, the carbon dioxide bound in the cracked sugar is released and causes a crackling sound on the tongue. Compared to the shelf life of sugar, the trapped gas escapes quickly, which is accelerated by high humidity .
Various fears about health risks have so far been dispelled, among other things because of the low weight fraction of the compressed gases.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c cracked sugar . Sandra Müller Molecular Cuisine. 2012. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
- ↑ a b Why do Pop Rocks pop? . PopRocksCandy.com LLC. Retrieved March 20, 2013.