Ideal Toast

Daily Mail The first piece of toast that I ever ate was also the most perfect. There were no electric toasters in those days; certainly not in the Australian bush where my father was preparing a barbecue for the family. While the fire was dying down to a glowing layer...
Great Gravy Saver Sum

Great Gravy Saver Sum

Daily Mail My next venture (with colleague Peter Barham) was also at the request of a publicity company, and again I imposed the condition that it should let me show how scientists think. This time it was for Bisto gravy, who asked me to work out how much gravy was...

Good Dunking Guide

Daily Mail The publicity company came back for a second bite the next year. This time I looked at what liquid you should dunk you biscuit in. It was a simple but substantial bit of science, using a remarkable instrument developed at the University of Nottingham and...