- [Presenter] Science can happen anywhere,
in fact, sometimes all you need
to pull off some amazing experiments
is a kitchen and some left over ingredients.
Today we'll show you some awesome kitchen science tricks
and thanks to our sponsor Blue Apron,
we'll even show you how to whip up
a gourmet meal along the way!
Let's kick this kitchen science soiree off
with some color changing noodly goodness.
To start, you'll need some clear rice noodles,
a red cabbage and three cups of water!
You need to remove some of the leaves from your cabbage
and it's much easier to do this if you cut it in half first.
Peel off several leaves and proceed to fill the bottom
of a medium sized cooking pot.
Now add three cups of water to the pot.
So that's two from the measuring cup and one from the flask.
You wanna boil the cabbage for about 10 minutes
because this will pull that dye
right out of the cabbage and directly into the water.
While it's boiling, grab a lemon and cut it in half.
Squeeze out all the juice you can into a container
and if you have one, pour it into a spray bottle.
When your cabbage is starting to look drained of all color
you can go ahead and pull it from the heat
and remove the leaves from the water.
Tongs worked fine for us
but you can just use a strainer if you have one on hand.
You'll be left with a nice purple liquid
that's just begging for its first chemical reaction,
so let's not disappoint it.
Get a little baking soda,
and I do mean a little.
We'll be using a quarter teaspoon here because
anything more will give us the wrong color!
Put the baking soda in the pot and stir it around! Kazaam!
Your liquid is now blue and it's time to add the noodles.
While clear noodles like these work best
for showing vivid colors,
you can use any noodles or pasta that you have on hand.
Just place 'em all in the pot, close the lid
and let them soak up that delicious cabbage water!
Let it all sit for about five minutes
or you can even add it back to the heat
if they're really stiff.
Just make sure they're fully dyed blue
before emptying it all out into a colander.
When it's all drained it already looks pretty cool
and it's entirely edible,
but slap it down on a plate and we'll change its color
before your very eyes.
Grab that lemon juice bottle
and aim it directly at the noodles.
Give it a few healthy sprays of juice and sit back
as the cabbage dye goes from blue to a pinkish red.
When you're all done, it should look like this.
A real pot-luck party winner.
Oh, and if you were wondering what happens
when you add too much baking soda,
check out this green pasta.
Mm!
Now we've got more Kitchen Science coming
but if the noodles didn't get your appetite flowing
then this will!
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We're gonna make the Zaatar-spiced chicken thighs
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We'll start by prepping all our veggies.
Cut the carrots. Slice the shallot. Grate the garlic.
Hmm how about we clip the collards and even level the lemon.
It's also probably not a bad idea
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After the veggies are seasoned and the chicken's spiced up,
it's time to get cooking!
We'll start by tossing the veggies in the oven
and heating up some olive oil in a pan.
Once that gets heated up, we'll just throw the chicken in
and let the heat do its thing.
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Alright, it looks like the chicken is done.
We'll just pull those out to rest for a few minutes
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Alright, the veggies are cooked,
the couscous is fluffed up and ready,
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We'll just go ahead and mix everything together in the pot
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Making slime in the kitchen can be a ton of fun
but if you want to take it to the next level
and really impress, try making some oobleck!
It's what's known as a non-newtonian fluid,
so it doesn't follow Newton's law of viscosity.
To put it in simple terms, it's a fluid that
seems to get thicker when you apply pressure to it.
We'll get more into that in a second
but let's make some! It's pretty simple!
All you're gonna need is two cups of corn starch
and a cup of water.
Corn starch only costs about $1.50
so this is a cheap and fun experiment.
Pour your two cups of corn starch into a bowl
and then dump the water right on top.
At first this is gonna be pretty tough to work with.
Grab a fork, and start mixing it all together.
Just flip it over on itself
and stir to the best of your abilities.
Eventually, the substance should start looking
more like a liquid than a powdery mess.
Once you've worked it around a bit,
your oobleck should start developing
its non-newtonian properties.
For example, when you try to pull
a fork through it really fast,
it'll actually get stopped about halfway through
as the liquid solidifies from all the pressure.
But as long as you move through it slowly
it'll act just like a liquid instead of a solid.
Feel free to run your hands through it
and even squeeze it a bit.
The strange consistency of this stuff
is a cool enough thing to show off on its own
but the real fun comes with sound waves.
If you've got a large computer speaker
or subwoofer in your house
you can utilize that and pull off some amazing effects.
You'll obviously want to protect your equipment
so grab a large piece of plastic wrap
and lay it right over top of the speaker itself.
We found this works best
if you don't secure the plastic down
and just leave it loose on the top.
Now grab your bowl of oobleck and pour it
right into the speaker.
You'll want to fill it about halfway to the top.
The slime's gonna hold the plastic in place
and this will make sure no damage comes to your speaker.
All you gotta do now is hook up something
that can play some sound.
I'll be using a synthesizer here
but playing a loud bass track from your phone
will work just as well.
The oobleck will react differently
depending on what frequency of sound that you throw at it.
High pitched noises can cause some
interesting little ripple patterns
but the real fun comes when you drop the bass.
Experiment with different tones
until you find one that makes your slime come alive!
This stuff is amazing to watch in action
and you can even spruce it up with a little food coloring.
With the slime in its neutral state,
add some food coloring to different locations
and let it soak in for a few seconds.
Playing some high pitched sounds
will shift the colors around a bit
and make some really cool patterns
but when you crank this baby up to 88 miles per hour,
you're gonna see some serious science.
So when you've got some downtime
or you're waiting for dinner to cook,
go ahead and see what you can pull off
with your favorite music track.
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