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|title=Do Try This at Home: Cook It!!
|author=Punk Science
|publisher=Macmillan Children's Books
|date=May 2013
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|website=http://www.facebook.com/pages/Punk-Science/149548791781030?sk=info
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|summary=Do Try This At Home is a fun cross between a boy friendly cookbook and a kitchen science experiments book starring Punk Science members Jon, brad and Dan, the stars of the Science Museum's shows and books.
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''Do Try This At Home - Cook It11It!!'' is a fun, very boy friendly ( but not just for boys) cookbook combining very basic recipes, science facts and a few science experiments with food. Not every recipe in this book includes science facts and in some the science bit is limited to mentioning vitamins or giving us a very simple fact like the fact a tomato is a fruit, or a water chestnut isn't really a nut. But other recipes have quite a bit of scientific information. For instance this will tell you why cooking makes an egg hard, but makes cheese softer. Children will learn what an emulsion is, why onions make us cry, how yeast works, how to make a bouncing rubber-like egg and how to make a colour changing cabbage solution that will tell if a substance is acid or alkaline.
Some of the nicer recipes include fresh baked bread, hamburgers, and smoothies. The jelly with a toy spider in it looks like good fun, and we even ordered a toy spider to try this. Sadly after reading the science bit - which tells what jelly is made of - my sons immediately decided to never touch the stuff again, but such is the price of knowledge. There are a number of recipes which I really cannot see appealing to children, such as leek soup or chicken casserole, but I recognise that all children's cook books include a lot of these now, I suppose to show they are promoting balanced eating. Still, my own children have no interest in making or eating these recipes, and some like baked salmon will be a bit expensive for parents to buy the ingredients and let the children experiment with. In addition, I have to confess that the pizza recipe is really rotten. I am sure some children would eat this, but mine certainly would not - and neither would the dog. A much nicer recipe could have been easily made. A few of the recipes are not intended for human consumption,, such as the cabbage experiment, but these are both entertaining and educational.
[[What Einstein Kept Under His Hat: Secrets of Science in the Kitchen by Robert L Wolke and Marlene Parrish]]
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