Exploring Kitchen Science ─ 30+ Edible Experiments & Kitchen Activities

Open up your fridge—there's science inside! Join the world-famous Exploratorium for 40+ delicious discoveries, including the chemistry of food, cooking, baking, nutrition, and taste.

Did you know that your kitchen is actually a secret laboratory where tons of crazy-cool science goes down every day? That’s right—every time you put a pot of something on the stove, mix two ingredients together, or nuke something in the microwave, you’re actually being a (hungry!) scientist. The Exploratorium’s Kitchen Science 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 baking a delicious cake with LED candles, from cooking up oobleck as a wild and wacky lesson in matter to making ice cream with liquid nitrogen!

Other contents include:

The Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion
Dancing Raisins
Cornstarch Fireballs
Gummy Bear Growth
Spinach Chromatography
Onionskin Dyes
Marshmallow Wars
Not-So-Nice Cupcakes
Pickling
Yeast Farts
Cabbage Juice pH Indicator
Salt and Olive Oil Lava Lamp

Internationally acclaimed as the first hands-on science museum of its kind, the Exploratorium is home to more than 475 interactive exhibits, all of which create an otherworldly and awe-inspiring experience of everyday physical forces. More than half a million people visit the museum annually, and several hundred thousand more interact with exhibits sent abroad. The Exploratorium was awarded National Science Board 2011 Public Service Science Award for its continued good works in heightening awareness of the intersection of art and science, and it has trained more than 6,000 teachers in learning through hands-on interaction.