Hokey Pokey

Aim: To make hokey pokey using sugar, golden syrup and baking soda.

When the sugar and goldensyrup combine with the baking soda it froths and makes carbon dioaoxide gas. That is why the hokey pokey has bubbles.

Materials:

1. 2 tablespoons Golden Syrup
2. 4 tablespoons sugar
3. 1 Heaped teaspoon of baking soda
4. Pot
5. Tablespoon and teaspoon
6. Bunsen burner
7. Grease proof paper

Method:

1. Put 4 tablespoons of sugar and 2 tablespoons of golden syrup in a saucepan and melt.
2. Bring to the boil and simmer gently for 5 minutes
3. Add baking soda and stir vigorously.
4. Put the hokey pokey on a piece of grease prove paper to to cool.

The more the sugar syrup is cooked the browner it becomes. If it is left cooking for to long your hokey pokey becomes burnt.

The Empty Pot

Hello, today's blog will be about The Empty Pot. This story is a folk tale. A folk tale is a story that has been told for generations and has a moral or a lesson in it. This folk tale is about a boy named Ping. Ping loved to plant lots of flowers he had his own garden filled with flowers. Everyone in his town loved flowers. There was a Emperor and he set up a competition. The competition was, who ever could grow best flower they will be the new Emperor. Ping and all the other kids were so exited. They all went and got a seed from the Emperor. Ping and all the other kids were so exited. they all went back to the valley and then planted them. But the seed didn't work. So all the kids except Ping replaced the seed with another seed. Ping tried his seed that the Emperor gave him. It wasn't working, he was trying for so long and a whole year passed by. Then it was the day of the Emperor picking the best flower. Everyone had lots of different flowers, but Ping had a empty pot. He was so sad. The Emperor called everyone up one after the other. and then it was time for Ping, he was the last one. When he went up he started crying and he said, "I'm so sorry, I couldn't grow my seed. I've been trying. Everyday I water it, and I even changed the soil and pot. But it still didn't work". The Emperor said "The reason your seed didn't grow is because I cooked the seeds before giving it to you guys". Then the other kids were embarrassed. The Emperor was mad at all the other kids but not Ping. The other kids replaced the seeds but Ping didn't. Ping was honest and the Emperor made Ping the new Emperor. 

The morel of this story is, be honest and don't cheat. 

  

ginger beer

Today we made ginger beer in class. We did this by activating the yeast first by adding sugar to the yeast, putting some ginger and warm water in a cup together. Once we had done this we put it to the side and left it to ferment while we made the rest of the ginger beer. We made the ginger beer in an ice cream container by adding first the sugar, then the water, some lemon juice and lastly the ginger beer bug. Once everything was mixed up we put it in a bottle. It is going to take about 6 days to turn into ginger beer. Mr Palmer is going to keep it in his office for the next week.

 Yeast.

Yeast are fungi.

Yeast has been around for a long time.

Yeast is all around us in the air.

There is natural yeast.

There is also man made yeast.

There are over one thousand kinds of yeast.  

Equipment 

• Spoons 

• Kettel

• Bowl

• Beaker

• Cloth sieve

• Funnel

• Plastic (PET) bottle and cap.

Materials 

Bug (for a group of 3)

• 50ml warm water 

• ½ tsp active dried yeast

• ½ tsp sugar 

• ½ tsp ground ginger 

Ginger beer ( for 1 litre )

¾ cup sugar 

½ tsp cream of tartar

1L cold water 

Juice of ½ lemon 

1 tsp ginger beer bug.

Method 

1. In a large bowl. Put the sugar and cream of tartar, then add the warm water.

2. Stir to dissolve the sugar before adding the cold water.

3. Add the ginger beer bug to the large bowl of cold water.

4. Stir well and then pour into your clean bottle.

5. Label your bottle with your group names.

6. Place all the bottle in the class container 

7. Store in a cool, dark place for one week before drinking.

8. Make sure you open the bottle in the kitchen as it might overflow. Open the cap bit by bit to allow the air to escape.

9. 

Breads, muffins, croissants

 Aim: To see which is the best way to cool the hot chilli taste in your mouth when eating chilli.

Hypothesis: I think that by using milk i will be able to remove the hot chilli taste from my mouth.

Equipment:

1. milk

2. water 

3. Coca Cola 

4. tasting cup

5. Chilli

    

Method: 

1. You will work in groups of three for this experiment. Each person in the group will use of the drinks with the chilli. You will then swap results in your group so that everyone has the same results.

2. Each members of the group needs to have their own tasting cup. This will be used for putting the different liquids in as we cool off the chilli in our mouths.

3 Place a piece of chilli in your mouth.

4. You will be drink the liquid that you have in your cup. As you do this you will complete a results chart.

Summary and Results:

The milk did not work immediately. After 3 minutes it had a small effect

The Coke had a small effect immediately. Coke had no effect after 3 minutes 

The water did not work immediately. The water did not stop the chilli after 3 minutes 

Conclusion 

Milk could be a solution to eating spicy-foods literally. That's because milk helps your mouth handle Capscaicin, an oily chemical compound in chilli peppers. Capsaicin binds to a receptor in the tongue and creates a burning sensation. Casein protein in milk can also bind to the capsaicin and wash it away      

taste testing

 Equipment

1. Samples 1-9

2. Blindfold glasses 

3. Recording chart 

4. Ice cream stick taster

 Method: 

1. Get safety glasses and make a blindfold.

2. Set up your chart and make sure that the person you are working with knows where to record your responses.

3. Using an ice-cream stick you will dip it into the Sample. Once the sample is on the stick you will taste it and tell your partner your response. 

4. There will be 2 answers. 

Answer 1. At the taste test one you need to hold your nose.

Answer 2. What do you it is. Record it. 

6. Repeat this for the next samples but you will only need to use your icecream stick taster for samples 1-4 

Blind taste testing result

Sample number	Sweet, sour, bitter, salty.	I think it is…….
Sample A	Sweet	Sugar
Sample B	Sour	Salt
Sample C	Bitter	Baking powder
Sample D	SOUR!!!	Sitric acid
Sample E	sweet/bitter	onion
Sample F	Potato	Sweet
Sample G	Sweet	Apple
Sample H	Sweet	Lollie
Sample I	sweet / sour	Gummy bear

 Hello people Today's blog will be about Fiji vs All Blacks in the 7's Olympics Tokyo 2020. Yesterday was the 7's its was Fiji vs NZ, New Zealand was playing pretty well but Fiji was playing better. Fiji scored 4 or 5 Try's and and 2 kicks i think. New Zealand scored 2 Try's. Fiji won by 27 - 12.