Kitchen Science

Five Skittles arranged in a circle. A careful pour of water. Most people predict the colours will blend into a muddy mess in the middle. Place your bet before you pour — because most people are wrong.

One toothpick. One pinch of salt. Twenty seconds. Can you lift an ice cube without touching it?

Water flows downhill. Everyone knows that. So when you dip a paper towel into a glass of coloured water and watch it start climbing upward through the fibres — against gravity

A burst of fire shoots out of the peel!

But wait… Why would fruit… be flammable?

Drop food colouring into a glass of water and it sinks straight to the bottom. Add oil first — and something completely different happens.

Drop some colour into milk…
Now touch it with a cotton bud…BOOM.