Kitchen Science Experiments

Eureka!

We recreate Archimedes' experiment to find out whether what claims to be gold is really gold, using some fairly basic equipment.

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Psychedelic Milk

Make beautiful moving psychedelic patterns in a bowl of milk with just some food colouring and washing up liquid.

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Weightless Water

Make a cup and their contents weightless and find out what it has got to do with space stations.

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Make a Rubber Fridge

In this extremely simple experiment, you can discover a surprising property of a rubber band, and why rubber is so stretchy.

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Crystals on a piece of wool

Make some strange crystals on a piece of string with things you would find at home.

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How you could drink your own urine safely?

If you were trapped on a desert island with nothing to drink what would you do? We show you how to purify various unappetising liquids...

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Lighting bulbs without wires

Find out how to light a light bulb with no wire in sight using just a balloon and a little hair.

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Sucking an egg into a bottle

With the power of air pressure, force an egg into a bottle, and then try to work out how to get it out again.

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Fizzy Yeast

Find out what makes bread rise and champagne fizzy in this simple kitchen science.

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Vacuum Powered Bazooka

Build a vacuum cleaner powered bazooka and launch projectiles across your garden.

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Balloons on a Tube

Find out why it is so hard to start blowing up a balloon and what it has to do with bubble bath.

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Harmonic Knives

Make more sounds out of a humble kitchen knife than you thought possible, by the power of harmonics.

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Blowing on bottles

Discover the musical properties of a few old bottles...

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Squashing Bottles

What happens to the note a bottle makes when you squash it? What would happen if you then put it underwater? Find out in this kitchen science.

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Lemon-Powered iPod

There have been various spoof films showing how to charge your ipod using fruit and vegetables. But is it actually possible? Find this out along with how a battery works.

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