Archive for March 28, 2007

Baking Frogs

Actually, the title should be Baking & Frogs….

Our baking science meeting was a big success!  Thanks to the Goss family for hosting (and keeping all the extra cookies).  This is an easy an fun experiment to try at home.  Just get 2+ recipes worth of Tollhouse cookies.  Make one batch as the control.  Then split the other into two parts.  Select 1 ingredient as the variable and put all of that into one part and none into the other.  For example, the recipe calls for 2 eggs: put both into one half and none into the other.  Do that for each ingredient (flour, sugar, butter, egg, salt) to test all the combinations.  Sugar, flour (use 1/2 & 3/2), and salt make the most dramatic examples.

I am still taking advanced orders for Frog kits.  You can send me the $25 via school (Alex in 5th or Isaac in 3rd) or drop it by my house.  The kits can be used 3 times but only have the parts for 1 frog.  The instructions claim it only takes 15 minutes to make a new frog.  If you have multiple impatient scientists in your family then you may want to consider getting a kit per scientist.

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