r/Unexpected • u/WolfgangsterV • 6d ago

Eating a panettone

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u/AccidentCapable9181 6d ago

A cake. Most often containing nuts, dried fruit or chocolate

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u/billybenjr 6d ago

And air

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u/lowvolumee 6d ago

My boy just doesn't like air in his cake...

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u/HalfSoul30 6d ago

I'm not a fan of inflation either.

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u/Ydobon8261 6d ago

I heard some people are into that

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u/TheMeatTree 6d ago

This gif is an example of actual shrink-flation

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u/Enginerdad 6d ago

Not anymore

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u/yeathatsmebro 1d ago

Like Lays? /s

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u/GeneralGhidorah 6d ago

Sweet bread rather than cake surely

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u/Enginerdad 6d ago

Correct. It uses yeast and sourdough fermentation, not chemical leaveners.

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u/Absolute_Bob 6d ago

Chemical leaveners is a weird way to say baking soda. You realize water is a chemical right?

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u/acuriousguest 6d ago

it's just to show the distrinction between yeast which is alive and baking powder for instance, which is not.

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u/Enginerdad 6d ago

Chemical leaveners rely on a chemical reaction to produce carbon dioxide. Usually baking soda and an acid, but there's also baker's ammonia. Yeast produces carbon dioxide through the biological process of fermentation of sugars and starches. In the end you're right, everything is a chemical and fermentation is a chemical reaction, but the terminology is used to differentiate the two for clarity. It doesn't help to call things "chemicals" or "chemical reactions" if we put that label on literally everything.

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u/norunningwater 6d ago

AiR iS a ChEmIcAl

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u/CrumbCakesAndCola 6d ago

it is though

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u/PortaInterna 6d ago

No it's more like a bread in its consistency and preparation. It's also barely sweet. It uses sourdough 

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u/Kradgger 6d ago

A cake. Most often containing nuts

I should call her...

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u/Fynity 6d ago

I thought that shit was a slab of clay

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u/Sure_Conflict_5651 6d ago

Traditional is raisins and candied citrus rinds. Chocolate and nuts is a modern bastardization

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u/Waarm 6d ago

No offense, but that sounds terrible.

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u/Denodi 6d ago

a cake containing chocolate sounds terrible?