Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Hard Work (And Food)


This is the room that's used whenever focus groups come in for taste tests (usually for research done in the meat lab). Personally, I think the room looks pretty drab under your typical fluorescent light bulbs, but I like these red lights.

Also, I really don't think this lab would be able to function without Kabby. She was gone yesterday so instead of just growing our own bacteria cultures, Dr. O'Leary and I went to Kroger and bought a bunch of cabbage and cheddar cheese that had been aged for various amounts of time. When we got back to the lab we just spent a couple hours making sauerkraut (just add salt to the cabbage and let it sit for two weeks without air contact) and processing cheese (which is actually really simple: just add emulsifying salts to make the cheese smooth and a couple preservatives).

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