Safety Precautions
When doing this experiment, there are many rules which I have abide by. Some of these rules include:
- No running in the kitchen
- Keep face well away from the stove
- When using a knife keep fingers well out the way
- Tie hair back
- Keep kitchen clean at all times to avoid accidents
- Keep handle of the saucepan/pot faced to the side (not faced towards you or else there will be mishaps)
Now what next?
Now I have written down what I have to be cautious of when doing this experiment, I have to write out my method.
- The first question I asked myself was, have I drawn my table to record my results in? I have already given an example of what the table should look like in the previous blog.
- I then figured that we have to get the correct measurements. First you have to look at how many grams the chocolate bars weighs (packet should say how many grams). Then you have to cut the bar into pieces (if the bar is not already 100 grams, I suggest getting a 300 gram bar because your measurements will be more precise for the 3 tests you conduct). NOTE: MAKE SURE YOU DO EACH CHOCOLATE BAR ONE BY ONE SO THAT THEY DON'T GET MIXED UP.
- After cutting the bars into pieces you have to use the kitchen scales to make accurate measurements. (100 grams).
- Label bowls ( 1 expensive, 2 average, 3 cheap ), put the 100 grams of chocolate into their bowl. NOTE: KEEP THE OTHER CHOCOLATE TO THE SIDE MEASURED AND READY
- Turn the stove on low heat.
- Stir the chocolate once with the wooden spoon when it begins to melt.
- Record the time it took to melt.
- Repeat this experiment for this chocolate twice more.
- Repeat this experiment for the two other types of chocolates.
