Science & Popcorn

By phil on February 7, 2008

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Who would ever have thought that Science and Popcorn could go together? Or they could be so much fun (at least eating the popcorn was fun).

My Daughter had to do a science project for school so instead of the usual “potato makes electricity” we decided to do something more fun.

How does temperature affect popcorn?

We took 3 bags of microwave popcorn and froze one, refrigerated one, and left one out at room temperature for 24 hours. We then microwaved each bag to see how long they took to finish popping and if there was any difference in quality of kernels popped.

What we found was there is no real difference in the number of kernels popped, and the length of time doesn’t change significantly. However it did take a bit longer to pop the cold and frozen bag of popcorn.

I hope you enjoyed this years science project as much as I did eating all that popcorn ;)

We had so much fun doing this experiment that I think we will give Trent’s laundry soap experiment a try next and see if it really does work like he says, stay tuned!

~Phil

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10 responses to “Science & Popcorn”

dcr
February 7, 2008 at 6:14 pm | Permalink | Reply

Dare I ask if the teachers noticed the error in the header on the display?

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1. morgan
  January 18, 2010 at 11:26 pm | Permalink | Reply
  
  wow! thanks! thats exactly what im doing for my project! now i have something to look at! u r awesome!
phil
February 7, 2008 at 6:27 pm | Permalink | Reply

Ummmmm, You were not supposed to look at that ;)

I kind of gave my Daughter freedom to do it herself and I didn’t quite look at every little thing…

~Phil
1. michael mcdonnell
  November 14, 2009 at 5:57 pm | Permalink | Reply
  
  well that was probably fun even though i was eating the popcorn with you guy’s but no matter what i love popcorn
phil
February 7, 2008 at 6:35 pm | Permalink | Reply

Hey Dan,

Come to think of it I never understood the difference between Effect and Affect :)

~Phil
dcr
February 7, 2008 at 8:23 pm | Permalink | Reply

Most commonly, effect is used as a noun and affect is a verb. Confusion usually sets in because effect is also a verb. Here is a good explanation of the difference between affect and effect.

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CAMIL JOHNSON
September 24, 2009 at 2:34 pm | Permalink | Reply

YA I HAVE NEVER KNOWN THE DIFFERENCE EITHER BUT THANKS 4 TELLIN ME…..
LEsha
November 5, 2009 at 4:43 pm | Permalink | Reply

hey!.IM IN BIOLOGY DOING SCIENCE LAB REPORTS AND PROJECTS AND WE USE EFFECT ALL THE TIME!.
LeyaJade
December 10, 2009 at 2:26 pm | Permalink | Reply

I am doing this project for my science fair ! aha. was it funn?
mz.jenkins
February 10, 2010 at 11:21 pm | Permalink | Reply

thanks so much now i can finish my science fair project