This week’s water-based agar jelly is a dessert that make the most of Kumamoto’s clear water. It is composed of “iced persimmon” made by freezing sweet persimmon that has fully ripened on ...

Our sweet of the week is mitsumame, a Japanese dessert featuring agar (kanten) jelly. You’ll find its silky texture and mild sweetness delights your taste buds. We used caster sugar to make its ...

Read more: The 20 Best Olive Oils For Cooking The discovery of agar was a rumored 17th-century mistake involving a discarded ...

We can grow bacteria in an incubator on plates of agar jelly with time, nutrients, and an optimum temperature. These girls at Copthall wanted to investigate the bacteria growing on their possessions.

Why don't more chefs use agar agar as a setting agent? So many cooking programmes have the chefs on tenterhooks because they don't know if their jelly dessert is going to set. If they used agar ...

This plant-based alternative to Eton mess uses aquafaba to make the meringues and agar-agar to set the homemade jam and jelly. Preheat the oven to 120C/100C Fan/Gas ½ and line a baking tray with ...