| Name | Insatiable: Cooking Up Innovation |
| Type | Attraction |
| Category | Albany New York Museum |
| Description | Exhibit Overview
From wood fire to sous vide, Insatiable: Cooking Up Innovation explores the technology that facilitates the chemical transformations of sugars, proteins and fats when grilled, boiled, broiled and baked.
This exhibition is a celebration of humankind’s ever-evolving innovation in preparing food, a story that is local, national, and global. From engineering outdoor grills to microwaves, GE and other organizations set the world’s trends in how we prepare food.
In this hands-on, interactive exhibit, explore the inner workings of toasters, skillets, convection currents, refrigerators, solar ovens, pressure cookers, and more!
Exhibit Description
A journey through human curiosity, creativity and innovation, The Art & Science of Cooking is an immersive 5,000 square-foot traveling museum exhibit that showcases hundreds of artifacts, objects, artwork, and hands-on interactives that testify to our exploration of technology and engineering in the pursuit of creating culinary marvels as ubiquitous as a locally roasted cup of coffee.
Armed with an array of fuels — wood, charcoal, gas, and electricity — we boil, bake, grill, roast, fry, and “nuke” our food in a multitude of gadgets. Whether in smart pots, air fryers, or pressure cookers made of everything from clay to Teflon, preparing food is a daily ritual we now take for granted. However, the introduction of cooking food more than a million and a half years ago is a uniquely human practice. Cooked food provided humans with more energy for brain and body than raw food and catapulted the evolution of humans.
The Art & Science of Cooking presents this remarkable story through the display of “firsts” – the first iron ovens, electric ovens, toasters – past and present state-of-the-art gadgets, a walk through time imagery, and hands-on interactives that will delight visitors of all ages and interests by immersing them in the science, technology, engineering, and math we apply every day to create the perfect art – food.
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| Address | 15 Nott Terrace Heights |
| CSZ | Schenectady |
| Phone 1 | (518) 382-7890 |
| Email | melissa.oles@misci.org |
| Handicapped Accessible | Yes |
| Website | http://misci.org/ |
| Last Updated | 9/20/2019 |
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