Science corner - Scientific experiments...
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:40 pma microwave oven and a box of jelly babies. Inevitably the two would be combined in a crude experiment.
Anyway, here are the brave volunteers at roll call. Asda's finest Jelly babies. Tough as nails. Ready for anything. Actually, it appears that jelly baby number three has lost control of his bodily functions. Don't worry guys, It will all be over soon...
The microwave is really clean and nice inside. I'll have to be careful that I don't make a mess. I have removed the glass tray and the three pronged rotating platform that it normally sits on. This is so that I know that they are sitting in the same place for the duration of the exercise.
Now to choose the experimental parameters carefully. I think we'll have all 800W, and I don't expect this to last longer than a minute.
After about five seconds JBs two and three have begun to melt. In fact, judging by the colour of the bubbles, jelly baby number two is closest to the hot-spot.
A few seconds later nervous nelly, jelly baby number three, is thrown dramatically aside by the rapidly expanding foamy bubble that used to be number two.
Number five can't believe his good fortune as the rest of his buddies combine into a huge mass of sugary foam. He has lucked out in his first game of Jelly baby Russian roulette. I aborted the experiment at this point to avoid making a mess.
Ok, so number five is not quite so cool after all. The enormous bubble has now collapsed into a murky puddle of gloop.
Oh dear. Although superficially intact, even number five was warmed through. He was fairly squishy when I attacked him with the fork. For scientific reasons you understand.
Dont know wtf this proves
Anyway, here are the brave volunteers at roll call. Asda's finest Jelly babies. Tough as nails. Ready for anything. Actually, it appears that jelly baby number three has lost control of his bodily functions. Don't worry guys, It will all be over soon...
The microwave is really clean and nice inside. I'll have to be careful that I don't make a mess. I have removed the glass tray and the three pronged rotating platform that it normally sits on. This is so that I know that they are sitting in the same place for the duration of the exercise.
Now to choose the experimental parameters carefully. I think we'll have all 800W, and I don't expect this to last longer than a minute.
After about five seconds JBs two and three have begun to melt. In fact, judging by the colour of the bubbles, jelly baby number two is closest to the hot-spot.
A few seconds later nervous nelly, jelly baby number three, is thrown dramatically aside by the rapidly expanding foamy bubble that used to be number two.
Number five can't believe his good fortune as the rest of his buddies combine into a huge mass of sugary foam. He has lucked out in his first game of Jelly baby Russian roulette. I aborted the experiment at this point to avoid making a mess.
Ok, so number five is not quite so cool after all. The enormous bubble has now collapsed into a murky puddle of gloop.
Oh dear. Although superficially intact, even number five was warmed through. He was fairly squishy when I attacked him with the fork. For scientific reasons you understand.
Dont know wtf this proves
