Wednesday, May 5, 2010

The Butter Was Great!

the butter was truly amazing! It was way more than I expected it to be. It tasted like unsalted butter with a hint of cream. It melted right in your more so quickly that you wish it lasted longer!

YUM!

Experimenting With Vinegar

      Today I decided to experiment with vinegar. Of course I knew that if you put baking soda in vinegar it will fizzle and bubble but, I wanted to see what other things would bubble. So first I tried putting yeast into vinegar:

1 packet      2 spoonfuls
Yeast + vinegar = Clumpy, not enough vinegar, smells bad, chunky

<---Looks like it's watery but it's not!








1 spoon    2 spoons
Salt + vinegar = Tiny fizzling, not amazing














1 spoon                 2 spoons
baking soda + vinegar = fizzling, bubbling, cakes at bottom, vinegar on top







      Well, all in all, this experiment was not a great success, well, I guess it was because you can never have and unsuccessful experiment. Really it is just unexpected results which can be good thing!
    I guess I was just a little let down. It happens sometimes! Thanks for reading and come again when I do my next experiment (soon), it will be fun! I'm testing sodas and Mentos. (BOOM!) :P :)

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Upcoming Experiments:

1. This weekend, I am going to get five kinds of sodas and two kinds of mentos and test the altitude of the soda's spurt height.

2. Not long after that, I will test what happens when your pour different things into vinegar.

3. And not long after that, I will grow mustard plants and see how long it takes.

post any suggestions in the comments! thx

Monday, May 3, 2010

Fill in the Blanks and Help me out!

If you do _________ to __________ something will happen      OR
How long will it take _________ to ___________

Cool sort of Experiment

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making butter



right now i am trying to make butter with a creamer. I am shaking the creamer while i am typing this so it is hard to type. I dont think butter is made exactly this way, i think that there are more steps involved but this is the way I'm goin, quick and simple. well, not so quick.


The creamers are Hood Half & Half

I have creamers numbered 1,2,3. I just started 2,3 but i have been doing 1 for a while


I'll tell you how it goes when i finish.





6:38- about 55 minutes in, hand getting soar, creamers getting warmish. I believe there is a tiny bit less liquid...


6:46 pm- Just noticed cream congealing on edges.


7:02 pm- more cream, probably because of congealing chunks.


7:24 pm- my mom shook the creamers while i practiced piano for 20 minutes. There is a little less liquid and more congealing. The creamers are warmer probably because my mom was holding them and her hands are bigger and covered them more with her body heat.


I've been doing this now for 2 hrs approximately...


7:42 pm- more liquid, almost to the top. Probably because there are more chunks.


8:33 pm- I must give up for the night and hope that in the morning that I can still make butter. After shaking for a while in the morning I will open the creamers and see what I have. Right now there is little more progress that I see. There are small chunks in the creamers.


7:32 am- Yes! it sort of worked!


I took out all the butter from the creamers and put it into one creamer.
guess what?! it tastes like unsalted butter!