Kitchen Science

Inside every bottle of hydrogen peroxide, a gas is slowly trying to get out. You are about to introduce it to the one thing that makes the escape happen in seconds — and it is alive.

A running tap. A ping pong ball. No string, no glue, no magnets. Can water actually pull something toward it?

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.

There is a secret ingredient hiding in your kitchen right now. You eat it every day. You cannot see it, smell it, or taste it. But one brown drop will expose it instantly.

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?

One orange. One balloon. Something hidden inside the peel. Apply it drop by drop — and watch what happens.

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?