I study how to make good cakes. Some people like a lot of sugar, some people like a lot of flour. And some people like a lot of salt. Those people are strange. But to each his own,and that is what makes my research about cake so fascinating.
Some people like it more than others.
One of my primary goals is to figure out the caloric content of cake in a bomb calorimeter. Our laboratory has pioneered the development of the cake bomb calorimeter. It requires that we inject 100 atmospheres of oxygen in with a slice of yummy cake and measure the heat of formation as we vaporize the yummy cake to hell. So far we have found that the yummier the cake, the higher the heat of vaporization. This page has been supplied courtesy of Oliver Fringer , Assistant Nerd, Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Stanford University.