Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:28:59 -0400
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From: jsbonnell**At_Symbol_Here**FUSE.NET
Subject: Re: FW: Experimental cook blows hands off trying molecular
gastronomy
Seems obvious: He was working up a new recipe for cold cuts.



> This tidbit is from our food safety officer.  From this piece, it makes
> absolutely no sense whatsoever to me.  I did a bit of digging - here's a
> wiki entry on the concept:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_gastronomy  But no more
> information about this incident than below.
> 
>  
> 
> Have any of you heard of this?  Do any of you might have some insight on
> how this incident might have occurred?  We have a large and active Food
> Science department and they're always coming up with new ways to produce
> food.  We would like to be able to head them off from something
> dangerous before we have a similar incident.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks for your speculation and input.
> 
>  
> 
> Debbie
> 
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> Environmental Health and Safety
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> From: Susan Cummings 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 5:05 PM
> To: Debbie M. Decker
> Subject: Experimental cook blows hands off trying molecular gastronomy
> 
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> 
> GERMANY: Experimental cook blows hands off trying molecular gastronomy
> 14.jul.09
> Sydney Morning Herald
> AFP
> http://www.smh.com.au/world/experimental-cook-blows-hands-off-trying-mol
> ecular-gastronomy-20090714-dj0r.html
> An experimental German cook accidentally blew off both his hands
> attempting to concoct a "molecular gastronomy" dish with liquid
> nitrogen, a newspaper report said on Monday.
> The 24-year-old man from Stahnsdorf near Berlin somehow obtained some of
> the dangerous chemical and was poised to try out a new recipe from the
> school of molecular cooking, which aims to apply scientific processes to
> gastronomy.
> There was an "enormous explosion", according to the Berliner Morgenpost
> daily.
> The man lost one hand in the explosion and the other was so badly
> injured it had to be amputated.
> The man, who was staying at his girlfriend's mother's house, was rushed
> to hospital where his condition was described as life-threatening. He is
> on artifical respiration.
> He claimed he was trying to fill a gas lighter, but his girlfriend said
> he was trying to empty a canister of liquid nitrogen.
> 
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