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Related: About this forumWhat Makes Your Cereal Go Snap, Crackle, and Pop?
Food scientists have discovered why Rice Krispies make their characteristic sound when soaked in milk. Rice Krispies contain lots of sugar and are cooked at high temperature, which makes the sugar form crystals and creates air-filled cavities. When a Krispie absorbs milk, the capillary forces push the air to shatter the cavities' walls -- and make a noise. With the exception of pop rocks candy, it is the only food that acts this way.
MINNEAPOLIS -- Snap, crackle, pop! Does your cereal talk to you? Rice Krispies -- the breakfast that talks to you -- has been around for nearly 80 years, but scientists have only recently figured out why it makes that noise.
Food scientist Ted Labuza, says there are a few reasons.
"Rice Krispies has sugar in it. It's the sugar that causes it to interact in the different way with the starch, and that makes a big difference," Labuza, who is professor of Food Science and Engineering at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, tells DBIS. In fact, sugar is the second ingredient in the Krispies. It's much lower on the list in other cereals.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2006/1204-what_makes_your_cereal_go_snap_crackle_and_pop.htm
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What Makes Your Cereal Go Snap, Crackle, and Pop? (Original Post)
AsahinaKimi
Jan 2014
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shraby
(21,946 posts)1. Eating rice crispies is like running through the fog with your mouth open.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)2. Its not as strange as
Running through the fog while eating pop rocks!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)5. Rice Crispies were better when I was a kid.
As was Worchestershire Sauce.
I don't know what's happening to this world.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)3. META!
Sorry, I've.... Been here too long.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)4. Witchcraft!!1!!1 n/t
nikto
(3,284 posts)6. Each little rice-crispie is like...
a mini-Titanic going down, her many interior bulkheads popping as she takes on
more and more milk, until finally foundering and disappearing beneath the waves.
Or into your mouth.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)7. I thought it was these guys!
benld74
(9,889 posts)8. I always thought it was my knees when I sat down to eat the stuff!!!!
yuiyoshida
(41,765 posts)9. I sat down to a bowl of Rice Krispies this morning when
I read the "cool" section. Are you spying on me?
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)10. yes
oh and you didn't wash all the silverware properly