Enrich your daily grind – Food Tech 2014
Chocolate and coffee, what a great combination! But which do you prefer – milk chocolate and a regular cup of coffee or perhaps an espresso with a square of dark chocolate? Milk chocolate and dark...
View ArticleDon’t subtract – add! 3D printing at Malvern
As Malvern Instruments were sponsors at this year’s Malvern Festival of Innovation, Andrew Brock and I were invited to give a talk at the Advanced Engineering & Manufacturing symposium. We chose...
View ArticleA customer perspective: analytical strategies for inkjet formulation
Last year at Malvern we put a lot of emphasis on inkjet ink technology due to the scale of growth in this area and the analytical benefits our products can bring when characterizing these inkjet inks....
View ArticleThe Great Guinness Viscosity Challenge
Last year we did a nice Christmas blog on the viscosity of beer where myself and Steve Carrington took our Microfluidic rheometer (m-VROCi) down to our local pub to measure a selection of their...
View ArticleTough cheese! Ponderings on cheese & rheology
My mother used to tell me that if I ate cheese late at night I’d dream. I always wondered what was wrong with dreaming….. Cheese is one of the essential food groups along with chocolate – indeed my...
View ArticleSmoothie Wars! Which blends best?
Here at Malvern Instruments, we seem to enjoy testing the rheological properties of drinks, particularly those of the alcoholic variety! Just before Christmas John Duffy and Steve Carrington looked...
View ArticleDiscovering the science behind chocolate
My name is Thea Miksch and I recently visited Malvern Instruments for a six day work experience placement. It was quite a big thing for me since I came from Germany to the UK for this placement. I was...
View ArticleWaxing lyrical about rheology
Randy Byrne, Malvern Instruments’ VP for Commercial Development, has formulated this excellent (not a trick-) question: “Which has the higher viscosity at room temperature – mayonnaise or honey? (Randy...
View ArticleIn pursuit of perfect packing
When you see the words “perfect packing” are you thinking of getting ready for that vacation and neatly folding your swimming costume and other clothes into your suitcase? Or are you thinking of the...
View ArticleGo with the flow – on Pluto….
Rheological – geological – but not mythological… Pluto (not the Disney character – that’s another story) is a word that provokes emotion and comment. This ‘Planet X’ discovered in 1930 by a young...
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