Kitchen Science Experiments

Whirling forces

Use whirling tennis balls to lift weights and find out what centrifugal force is.

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How useless is a Chocolate Teapot?

You have heard the saying, but it is meaningless unless you know exactly how useful a chocolate teapot actually is. We try to find out how thick the walls of a chocolate teapot would have to be to let you brew tea...

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Swinging for the Sweet Spot

Have you every wondered why when you hit a ball sometimes it goes miles and other times you just end up with a ball at your feet and a very painful hand? Find out here.

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Water Rockets

Launch lemonade bottle rockets and see what happened when we tried launching a camera on the top of ours.

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Starting fires with the sun

Start a fire using the power of the sun and a piece of glass, and find out how it could help with the world's energy crisis.

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Mobile Party! - Helium Balloons in Cars

If you hold a helium balloon in a car and then brake, will it go forwards or back? Obvious? well find out in this kitchen science

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Going loopy for bubbles

We discover a surprising feature of bubbles using only bubble mix, wool and a coat hanger!

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Monster Bounces

Make a tennis ball bounce much higher than the height you dropped it from using a neat piece of physics.

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Getting water from a candle

Extract water from a candle using nothing more complex than a pint glass.

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Fastest Melting Ice

Does the speed of ice melting depend on what surface it's on? We compare an ice cube on a frying pan to an ice cube on a chopping board...

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Balloon Kebab

Put a skewer straight through a balloon to form a kebab without having to hold your ears!

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Flour Volcano

Build a model of some of the largest volcanoes on the planet, using some flour and a balloon.

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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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