In cooking, everything is chemistry! Whether you knead bread, bake a pie, or roast a meat, chemical reaction is taking place. Not only with these foods, but with others such as eggs. Egg proteins change when you heat them, beat them, or mix them with other ingredients. Being able to understand these changes can help you understand the roles that eggs play in cooking. The proteins in an egg white are twisted, folded, and curled up into a circular shape. Different kinds of weak chemical bonds keep the protein curled up tight in the water that surrounds it.
When you apply heat an egg, yo…
