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.

182 pages, Hardcover

Published July 23, 2018

Reviews

[Shirley Batten · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.