The Bee's Knees

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I have four muffin tips for making bakery style muffins at home.

Tip number one:

Rest your batter for 15 minutes in your mixing bowl after you make it. This is gonna allow the starch molecules to swell and absorb, creating the thicker batter and the thicker batter is known for doming!

Tip number two:

Fill your muffin holes with at least six to eight tablespoons of batter. That’s like a heaping half cup okay. You want them super full so they’re gonna create that dome.

Tip number three:

Kinda goes along with tip number two. You’re only gonna fill every other hole in your muffin pan. And why we do that - that’s so the muffins that are baking can spread and dome without running into their neighbors. Because when they run into their neighbors they get like square edges but we want perfect dome circles.

Tip number four:

You’re to bake your muffins at a high temperature initially. That’s gonna be 425*F for the first seven minutes. And then keep them in the oven and lower the temperature to 350*F for the remaining bake time. Starting the muffins off at a high temperature initially allows the muffins to rise rapidly and it sets the outer surface of the muffin, producing a dome shape.

Anyway, Hannah Fry is one of my FAVORITE mathematicians because she has studied and published papers and books on the most random topics. She's published about Santa (x) and love (x). She's my favorite example of women in mathematics. She is incredibly smart and incredibly personal and just a joy to listen to when she teaches about complex subjects.

In the 1989 Batman movie, the Joker’s big scheme is to draw out the citizens of Gotham to a parade he’s putting on under the pretense that he’s going to be giving out free money. …Despite his previously having publically notified those same people that he’d poisoned random domestic products, leading to the death of one newsreader right on air.

Now, in the movie it’s just kinda assumed that the Joker is giving out ACTUAL money, but in the comic adaptation of the film it turns out that the money he’s giving out is counterfeit, with his own face on it.

One is a murderer and rapist who is batshit insane and dwells in a lunatic asylum populated by the worst kind of sick, depraved animals imaginable

Which sounds bad but