Cooking In European cooking, a mixture of butter and flour called a roux is used to thicken liquids to make stews or sauces. In Asian cooking, a similar effect is obtained from a mixture of rice or corn starch and water. These techniques rely on the properties of starches to create simpler mucilaginous saccharides during cooking, which causes the familiar thickening of sauces. This thickening will break down, however, under additional heat. Types of fat include vegetable oils, animal products such as butter and lard, as well as fats from grains, including corn and flax oils. Fats are used in a
Flour bomb containers of other liquid, making the removal of the resultant mixture difficult. Flour bomb Flour bomb is a fragile container (e.g. a paper bag) filled with flour for the purpose to be thrown at a person or object to cause an inconvenient messy stain. Flour bombs are a classic protest method, along with the throwing of eggs and overripe tomatoes. An example from May 2004 was the use of purple-dyed flour in condoms thrown at the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, in the chamber of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Fathers 4 Justice.