Wednesday, November 12, 2008

New project: science fair good one: taste testing: Tutti Frutti ;)

Tuttifrutti signing in for duty:

Todays how to is TASTE TESTING.
This is a good science fair project:

SO so so
step 1 varies depending on how you want to do it:
1.
1st option:
You can go around your neighborhood, testing people there and then posting your results on a board
OR 2nd option:
You can test people as your presentation

2. So which ever one you choose to do, step 2 works for both. First you gather a supplie of foods, and cotton swabs. The foods have to be something you can take a small amount out of by dipping a cotton swab in it, something liquid but solid enough to stay on the swab. I would recomend: mustard, tomato sauce, cottage cheese, ketchup, yogurt, apple sauce, pudding, mashed potatos, vinegar, and any other thing you can think of that would meet the standards.

3. Gather up some "test subjects", 8 is a perfect amount.

4. Make a chart with the name of each food, with space underneath it for the name of the person you tested, their gender, and age, and what they thought each food was.

5. Then you can choose to either tell the person what the foods are and have them guess or you can not tell the person any of the foods and have them guess.

If you choose to not tell them what there food options are to guess from beforehand, make sure others you are testing don't watch them.

6. Blindfold your test subject and swab the cotton swab through the food and then tell them to taste it. You can give them a certain amount of time to guess.

7. Write own the results of what each food they guessed and "VIOLA!" you've got a science project!

Another way to do this is to have a child and an adult or people of different age groups or of opposite genders tasting at the same time and see who can guess the food the fastest.

The idea is to find out if older people taste better than young and if a certain gender tastes better.

I won't tell you wich one is best because, I wouldn't want to ruin the results, 'WINK WINK' ;)
So if you want to find out, DO IT YOURSELF!

Hope this works well!

;) Get creative! ;)

-Tutti Frutti

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