Science Projects in your Food

Did you know it was possible to come up with a dozen different science projects using the food in the kitchen? I am not kidding. Take the humble egg for instance. You can use it in so many ways. I’m not talking about cooking it boiled, scrambled or poached. I am talking about science experiments that you can conduct with it.

How about baking a cake with eggs and one without. The difference in the texture would give you a good idea about why the egg is an essential ingredient. You could see how using merely the egg white in a souffle makes it rise better. You could even think up of other ingredients that you can use as a substitute for your friend who is allergic to eggs.

You can use it as a fragile package that you drop from a hight in different types of material. Try using different material to see which serves the purpose of protection best. I got an email once talking about how an egg was fried using two mobile phones. As you can see there is a whole lot of experimentation that you can do with just one small egg.

Sugar is another good food to use. You can see how it makes candy, or how you can caramalyze it. How the taste changes and the way caramalyzed sugar changes the color of the food it is cooked wth. Similarly there are a number of other foods that you can use to make a science project interesting. Just think up of interesting combinations.