Exploring Kitchen Science: 30+ Edible Experiments and Kitchen Activities

Exploring Kitchen Science: 30+ Edible Experiments and Kitchen Activities

Did you know that your kitchen is actually a secret laboratory where tons of crazy-cool science goes down every day? Or that your fridge is jam-packed with chemistry materials? Join the world-famous Exploratorium for 30+ delicious discoveries, including the science of food, cooking, baking, nutrition, and taste.<BR><BR>The Exploratorium’s <I>Exploring</I> <I>Kitchen Science</I> is your hands-on guide to exploring all the tasty chemistry that goes on all around you—from burning a peanut to understand how calories work to making blinking rock candies with LEDs inside, from cooking up oobleck as a wild and wacky lesson in matter to making ice cream with dry ice!<BR> <BR> Watch Mentos and Diet Coke explode, Styrofoam shrink in a pressure cooker, and marshmallows duke it out. <BR> <BR> Make dyes from onionskins, tangy and yeasty sourdough bread, noodles of fruit, pickles a power source, and glow-in-the-dark Jello.<BR> <BR> Use cabbage juice as a pH indicator and salt and olive oil as a lava lamp.<BR> <BR> Whip up tasty treats while you explore all the unexpected science that’s going on inside your very own kitchen. Cook, mix and microwave your way through <I>Exploring Kitchen Science </I>and learn some cool stuff along the way.