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Learning & Education | Home » » Scientific Explorer's Tasty Science Chemistry in the Kitchen Kit | | | | | | WARNING:| CHOKING HAZARD -- Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs. |
| | | Description: | | Who knew science could taste so good? With this kit, you'll whip up cupcakes, cookies, candy, and more all in the name of science! Learn what makes cakes rise, candy crystallize, and more real chemistry happen in the kitchen. Tasty Science is packed with ingredients, recipes, activity cards, a test tube laboratory, and lots more to explore the science of taste.? | | | Features: | |
• Tasty Science is packed with ingredients, recipes, activity cards, a test tube laboratory, and lots more to explore the science of taste
• Make delicious creations and creative concoctions, all in your own kitchen!
• What makes soda pop fizz? Find out with this cool kit!
• Satisfy your sweet tooth while feeding your brain!
• This kit makes a great gift for kids who love science, or cooking!
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 3.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 10.2 inches | | Product Height:
| 12.3 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.75 pounds | | Package Length:
| 12.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 10.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.05 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 36 reviews |
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87 of 88 found the following review helpful:
 Good fun with a little help!Dec 29, 2007
By Elizabeth Wolff
My 8 year old son got this for christmas and we had a lot of fun with it! It definitely requires some adult supervision especially for the baking and the rock candy. My son had the most fun making the fizzy drinks and learning how to make soda. Although the recipe for the soda doesn't taste that great it was a lot of fun to make and he did learn all about acids and bases. The other great part of this was that these recipes are easy to recreate even if you run out of the supplies that come with the kit. The big test tubes were also fun.
80 of 90 found the following review helpful:
 not worth the moneyJan 18, 2009
By J. Marineau
I bought this to use with my 7 year old son, and I had high hopes for this item based on other reviews and the price, however:
-The litmus paper for acid/base experiment do not work
-The recipe for the "soda" is not drinkable, in the least
-Powders for rock candy were supposed to be colored, but were not
-Materials are flimsy
-The booklet is merely instructions, no teaching of the "science" involved.
I haven't finished trying the other experiments and I am not sure I will.
You could look these "experiments" up yourself and do a much better job of rounding up the materials and educational information, with less stress and better results.
36 of 38 found the following review helpful:
Tasty Science KitDec 01, 2009
By V. Abel
"Amazon Loyalist"
The kids absolutely loved the science kit, but the test tubes leaked all over the place. The watermelon flavor was not tasty at all, but the grape was good. Overall it was worth it for the sheer enjoyment the kids received. The kids were 5, 6, 8 & 9 years old.
13 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 unscientific & short on ingredientsAug 11, 2011
By Karen U. Hansberger
I'm a middle school science teacher. We got this activity for our 4-yr-old who LOVED "Magic Science" (which was fun), but don't be fooled, this activity IS NOT science. Let me start by informing you that 16 of the 34 suggested ingredients ARE NOT included in the box. They will cost you an extra trip to the grocery store. (Additionally you will have to provide the pans, bowls, plates, spoons, foil, etc.) The soda experiment is absolutely inedible (horribly bitter). The acid/base experiment DOES NOT describe how acids & bases react w/ litmus paper (that one should expect an acid to make the paper pink/red & the base to make it blue/purple), so making an educated guess is impossible. It says a neutral substance will turn litmus paper green (but litmus paper never turns green, that's pH paper, which isn't included in the box). If your child just wants to use a pipet to mix liquids then they might enjoy this activity. If you want them to actually learn something, go elsewhere.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Neither "tasty" or "science."Dec 28, 2010
By Lori Collins
Save your money. The two experiments we have done from the kit so far are duds. The so called cupakes were a complete disaster and totally unedible. The booklet referred to the cupcake "dough" at one point and cupcake "batter" at another. As anyone knows, there is no such thing as cupcake "dough." Making cupcakes requires a batter. Unfortunately, this actually WAS a dough, NOT a batter, looking more like biscuit dough. There was no instruction on how many cupcake liners to use, so we used them all on the presumption that we should use the amount included in the kit. However, there was not much "dough" so this resulted in very small amounts of dough in each liner. They baked for 10 minutes, and yet were still uncooked on the inside. We had divided the dough in half, adding baking soda to one-half as suggested to compare the difference in the cupcakes. I'm pretty sure one set of the "cupcakes" was supposed to rise and the other not; however, the only difference was the ones without baking soda became golden on the outside. Both batches were uncooked on the inside and yet hard as rocks, completely unedible. We followed the directions to a T. I cannot help but wonder where they got this cupcake recipe, as I have never eaten cupcakes that did not have eggs in them or that did not come from a batter. My daughter was very disappointed, thinking there was going to be a tasty treat at the end of this experiment. Instead, they went in the trash.
Today, we did the experiment with bases, neutrals and acids in the testtubes using the so-called litmus paper. There was is nothing telling the kids what should happen to litmus paper; i.e., should it turn a different color for acid and if so, what color? Should it turn a different color for a base and if so, what color? We put drops of water on the paper and got no change. I figure that's normal, but when we put lime juice on another litmus paper, there was no change and it looked exactly the same as the paper with the water on it. The only substance that turned the litmus paper a color, which was purple, was the baking soda water. Also, if we got our fingerprints on it while it was wet, it would turn purple. I'm no professional scientist, but I am pretty sure water and citric acid should not give the exact same results on litmus paper, so I can only conclude this experiment was another dud; however, we cannot be sure since nothing in the booklet states what should happen to the paper or why.
I cannot believe this piece of crap was nearly $30.00 at the particular store where I got it. It was a complete waste of money from an educational standpoint. One might say, oh well, it is fun time well spent togehter, but the child's disappointment over the failure of the stuff to work, and my irritation at having been out nearly 30 bucks, did not make for quality time together.
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