Anthro-graphy
Personal amusement in the study of Humanity
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Chemistry
Baking is all about chemistry. It really starts from finding the perfect hard preferably one that doesn’t break the bank. Then it leads up to unpacking it, seasoning the oven’s heating elements, giving the mixer a test spin.
What excites me most, is the browsing of books for ideas. I am enchanted by the various basic creaming methods, the science of balance between the 3 basic ingredients: eggs, flour, sugar. Various ratios, various temperatures, so many permutations.
Baking is a performance. The construction, the mixing and assembling of ingredients is deceptively and commonly assumed to be the “rehearsals” before the main show where the confectionery hits the shelves. Oh, what does one know about the years of trail and error, the wisdom of knowing the caramel’s temperature just by it’s colour, the play and combination of taste and colour. The actual show is really the execution of such knowledge during the baking session, the ground work of techniques and practice, like a concert, showcases when the baking process starts.
It’s all about chemical reactions. Baking, like music, is when strict method and scientific understanding meets artistic freedoms.
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Qualia
How do we know whether the red you see is the red I see? How do you know that what I call “warm” is what you experience as warm?
I suppose we cannot ever tell what each other feels, or how does it feel to have a million lens like flies since we won’t ever have the physique is one.
Perhaps, the problem on the human level can be easily speed through music and still art.
The reason we so desperately seek to paint what we see, is to show others what our mind’s eye see, to share our inner qualia. Music, sound the same to you and I, when we play in tune and in harmony. It’s the absolute pinnacle of matching you’re qualia with mine, and we CAN be sure that what you hear is what I hear, yet paradoxically we can derive different interpretations of it deep within our emotions.
I don’t suppose qualia can be tested, but it can definitely be shared and expressed, albeit in limited avenues.
