The Kitchen Science Cookbook

by Michelle Dickinson

The Kitchen Science Cookbook is a beautiful, lovingly crafted recipe book with a twist — each recipe is a science experiment that you can do at home with your family, using easy-to-find ingredients you’ll likely already have in your pantry.
If you can follow a recipe, you can explore science! The Kitchen Science Cookbook presents science in a way that is easy to follow, familiar and widely accessible. The book seeks to enable families to enjoy exploring science at home together.
Contains 50 science experiments, suitable for young scientists from 3–15. Each experiment has been rigorously tested by a community of 2000 worldwide to ensure ease of understanding and ready availability of ingredients.
Each experiment is set out just as you would expect a recipe to be presented in a cookbook.
Ingredients, equipment and easy-to-follow instructions make scientific exploration a pleasure. Each experiment also has a clear explanation of the science involved, and suggests paths for further exploration.
Carefully designed to make the perfect gift, and a treasured book. The Kitchen Science
Cookbook is beautifully presented as a hardcover recipe book. Every recipe is accompanied by a beautiful full-page photograph.
Every book sold helps support Nanogirl Labs – a social enterprise – in their work to inspire
educate and empower through STEM, ensuring that science education is accessible to all.

Genres: Science, Cooking, Childrens

182 pages, Hardcover

Published July 23, 2018

Reviews

[Shirley Batten]

This book was amazing!! As a teacher and a parent I found it easy to use in my classrooms and my kids loved it! I've always been fascinated with science, but never studied it at school, this book made the subject so easy that even I felt like an expert by the end of it. I was able to use it to form my lesson plans for my teaching and all of the ingredients were cheap and easy to find at the supermarket. It's the first book that my kids would pull out when they got home from school, keen to make something before dinner that they could eat - like the 5 minute microwave cheese. I'm not sure they even realised that they were learning, they were more excited about mixing things together in the kitchen to turn it into something they knew. I'd highly recommend this book to parents and teachers who want to help their children to lean without it being perceived as boring.

[Margaret]

I heard the author on the radio & she was engaging & entertaining and enthusiastic. She got the other people in the studio to do a quick experiment involving paper cups and string - they assumed it was going to be a version of 'make your own telephone' & were surprised and even amazed when it was something else entirely. I am related to approximately 1 million children & teachers so I ordered the book immediately.
She designed it as a cookbook because she is targeting people who would ordinarily avoid science books. It is beautifully presented - very bright and colourful - and she writes the 'recipe' for each experiment using things that you can find around the house as far as possible: changing the colour of flowers, making soap bubbles, a marshmallow catapult etc.

[Bob Jones]

Fabulous book - I bought this book for my Grandchildren and we have had so much fun working through the experiments together. They loved being able to eat the results and I loved that the ingredients were already in my kitchen so we didn't have to go shopping for anything. I don't think they even knew they were learning and even I learned a few new things too!

[Hazel]

In het Nederlands vertaalt als 'wetenschap jn de keuken'. Het leukste boek over science en proefjes doen met kinderen dat ik tot nu toe ben tegen gekomen. Makkelijk uit te voeren experimenten die leuk en makkelijk te begrijpen zijn voor kinderen. Er staat vanaf 10 - 13 jaar, maar ook met 8 jaar al heel leuk om samen uit te proberen.

[Jennifer Heise]

The book is directed primarily to parents/caregivers/adults to do the projects with the kids (the small typeface is a giveaway). Starts off with a useful section of safety rules, including for knives and other sharp things, though these sections are directed more to parents. Handy information about measuring and conversion, and some notes on keeping notes when experimenting. Experiments have icons coding them as involving fire (heat source) or sharps, edible, best done outside, or requiring a lot of time for the process to complete. Experiments include equipment and ingredients, instructions, "science behind" and "explore further" sections. 50 experiments include ALL the usual ones, along with: milk-and-vinegar 'sculpture' paste; gelatin-and-food coloring window clings, triangular catapults made with and for marshmallows, straw rockets, balloon 'shuttle', cornstarch bouncing ball, solar cookie oven, nut milk, magnetizing iron-fortified cereal, banana candle, colored clear noodles, microwave cheese making, edible 'earthworms' made of gelatin molded in bendy drinking straws, chocolate cornstarch slime, honey 'comb' foam candy, meringue 'foamsicles', plasma eruption from microwaved grapes, static based levitating plastic ring, hoop drop, spinning a cupful of water, 'pressure jackhammering' a straw through a potato, 'rubber' bone soaked in vinegar, brine floating eggs, CO2 bottle balloon inflator, chicken noisemaker made with a plastic up and string, ringing string, soap/gelatin wobbly soap cakes, and sugar and gloves for catching soap bubbles.

[Mills College Library]

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