• Question: What is the most challenging project you have been a part of?

    Asked by M.Richards27 to Chris, Holly, Lyd, Mark, Michael on 8 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by heidi, Lewis_T1, Sky_Hxlness, 295prdn48, Geography is my life, Jack.
    • Photo: Mark Dougherty

      Mark Dougherty answered on 8 Nov 2015:

      We made a new BBQ sauce that had lots of syrup in the recipe but when we tried to pump it into the cooking tanks it was too thick!

      This meant we had to carry 1000 kg of syrup up a flight of stairs in 30 kg buckets in the middle of August in a 30 degree factory. It was so hot I thought I would pass out!

      To solve the problem quickly we had to find a way of getting the syrup into the tanks without effecting the taste of the sauce. We found some syrup with a higher water content that was a lot easier to pump, then we just adjusted the recipe to have less water in and no one could tell the difference.

      It was fun being covered head to toe in syrup but not something I’d like to experience again!

    • Photo: Michael Sulu

      Michael Sulu answered on 20 Nov 2015:

      I think it was my PhD, but that was mostly because you are doing a lot of the work on your own, so you can learn things about the process you are researching. I was using bacteria, to make hydrogen which we then fed to a fuel cell to power electric cars!

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