On Sun, 15 May 2005 15:00:28 -0400, Alan King <
alan@...> wrote:
>
> PS This all reminds me, put a peppermint in the oven sometime. With
> the
> oils boiling and sugars cooking it foams and carbonizes, producing a
> light
> fluffy solid black cloud-like object that hardly seems right weight to
> volume
> wise, and really doesn't look like it would have come from the mint you
> started
> with. Used to work at Dominos, with always on ovens and mints and a
> little too
> much time..
> Alan
Or put a polystyrene cup in it at just enough heat to make it soften, and
watch the wonder of turning back time.
Take care with sweets, the mythbusters have put some big sweet under heat
and almost shot an assistant with fragments ;-)
ST