Pumpkin Carving Challenge

If you cannot see the form below, please click here .  Also, special shout out to Bop's Bistro in De Pere, WI for donating our much needed last pumpkin!  

Cake Challenge Voting Complete! Entry #6 takes the cake (literally)

Crazy Corn

Food Science students turn the traditional candy corn into a science experiment about non-crystalline candy.

Under the Sea Cake Challenge: Voting now open!

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Twinkie Torture

I first have to say that I have a soft spot in my heart for Twinkies, simply because my Grandma Rosie had a "Twinkie Drawer," that was always stocked with Hostess products when we came to visit.  This set aside and my nutritionally-minded brain taking over, my Food Science students were able to explore this beloved, yet overly processed, food item by creating and implementing an experiment of their choice using the scientific method.  The results? We found it won't catch on fire (despite having a torch directly on it), a microwave will turn it black within minutes, the white filling turns to yellow goo when heated, AND it can be dropped 2 stories onto concrete without any damage.  

Definitely food for thought...

 

Cookie Challenge 1st Semester Winners & Entries

Thanks to all who voted for the cookie challenge! Our winners this semester came from Entry 1: Fall Fest!  Now we've moved onto cake decorating- check back for our entries!

                                   

Kendall College visits PHS

A huge thank you to Chef Brian Schreiber from Kendall College of Culinary Arts (Chicago) for speaking with all of the culinary-related courses today about their program, teaching about gluten allergies/celiac and poultry fabrication, and demonstrating delicious foods. 

Betty Crocker couldn't have asked for more

The Family Foods students finally were able to choose their own recipes! Following a lesson on functions of ingredients (i.e. Flour provides structure, eggs bind ingredients together and add color, etc) and convenience foods (foods that take steps out of a recipe), students used Bisquick's website to find a recipe to prepare in class. 

A Slice of Heaven

Advanced Foods students prepared angel food cake with browned butter icing.  

Is that apple pie?? You tell me...

Food Science students used their sensory evaluation skills in making 2 "apple" pies- one made from real apples and the other from Ritz crackers.  If addition to our own evaluations, we brought in two taste testers.  Would our panel taste the difference?  One preferred the regular and one preferred the mock apple pie!