Gluten & Helium

Baking Lab Amsterdam enables team members to explore the fundamentals of baking. Here we studied the effects of salt, acids and kneading on the properties of gluten extracted from strong American wheat flour (14.5 %…

Het Klokhuis TV: Rising

Wednesday February 1, 2023 we appeared in Het Klokhuis, a TV program that has been very popular with children for decades. We were very happy to participate in the broadcast about “rising”. In the episode,…

Bee-Bread

A sweet and scientific journey for children in the gardens of Jeugdland People’s interest in bees goes back to ancient times. The honey that bees produce has long been a popular sweetener. When people started…

Brood & Bijen op Jeugdland (Weekend van de…

Een zoete wetenschappelijke ontdekkingsreis voor kinderen in de Hemelse tuinen op Jeugdland ( De voormalige kinderboerderij Jeugdland Amsterdam is mede door door Roos Kuipers omgevormd tot stadslandbouwgebied. De Hemelse Tuin is inmiddels een groene oase…

Micropia Artis Researching a Sourdough Fairy Tale

ARTIS-Micropia researches and finds acetic acid bacteria flavouring sourdoughThis article was created in collaboration with Micropia (Artis). [ rewilding planet earth] Sourdough has been eaten worldwide for millennia, and tasted differently everywhere. Micropia investigated the…

ROEF festival: Fire (Bread) & Civilization

Where the smell of Baking Lab’s freshly baked bread is normally blown onto the street from a signboard, during the ROEF festival in September, these same smells were blown from the roof of Volkshotel. At…

Elise bakt dankzij de wetenschap beter brood

In de Linnaeusstraat zit de onderneming Baking Lab, waar ze met behulp van wetenschappelijke kennis experimenteren bij het bakken van brood. Kersvers UvA-alumnus Elise de Jong (23) organiseert bij Baking Lab momenteel een reeks workshops…

Sugar, friend or enemy?

Carbohydrates are often thought to be unhealthy. Carbohydrates are made up of sugars, and these are fatteners. This idea is partly unjustified. Sugars are the energy source for an indispensable organ in our body, the…