Kitchen Science Experiments

The Trebuchet

Build your very own medieval siege machine out of odds and ends you can find lying around the house

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Glueing glasses

Stick two glasses together using the power of hot air.

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Motor learning

Confuse your brain using a mouse. And Ben tries to throw a ball from a differnt perspective.

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Grape Plasmas

Create plasmas from a humble grape in your microwave.

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Rebounding Drop

An experiment you can carry out using a cup of tea and a little milk

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Steam Powered Can Crusher

How to use the power of the atmosphere to crush your drinks cans for you...

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Heat shrink

Find out what happens if you heat rubber, and what it has to do with crisp packets and shrink wrap.

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Fizzes from peroxide

Use the power of catalysis to create oxygen and relight a piece of wood, and we give the same reaction a more explosive twist.

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Impaling Potatoes

If you have ever wondered how to impale a potato with a straw? Then this experiment is for you...

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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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