Friday, September 9, 2016

Pancakes by Connor

What we learned in Ms. Raino’s Classroom? Well let me explain.
            We’ve learned how to make a lab procedure and the importance of graphing correctly as well as not screwing it up.


Those aren’t failed graphs; those are failed economics!
            Anyway, having learned how to make graphs and make our own lab procedure properly we’re doing an experiment on pancakes. Yet to be decided, my lab procedure was written on pancakes, and was written like this.
            What if beating more air into pancake batter made them fluffier??!
**Step 1 This will make 4 pancakes per recipe and 6 beating times from 1 minute to 5 with a control of 0, so we need 24 pancakes worth of mix. The recipe is as follows. 3 ½ cups of Bisquick, 2 ¼ cups of Skim Milk, 1 ¾ egg

**Step 2 For the control mix until blended and pour ¼ of a cup (4 times). Then for the other ones, Mix the pancake batter for 1 minute, then pour ¼ of a cup 4 times (for 4 pancakes). Then mix for another minute then pour ¼ of a cup 4 times, so on and so forth until you’ve done this 5 times.

**Step 3 Take the pancakes and flip them when the top bubbles pop, then wait until the sides are not batter anymore, then pull them off (if there is still batter in the middle try cooking for a bit longer)

**Step 4 Cut each pancake down the middle, measure the outside part of the pancake, and see how many air pockets there are in one CM squared. Once done write it down, do this for each pancake you made (if you had extra batter then make s’more pancakes)

Did you know that pancakes weren't always called pancakes? They were called Alita Dolcia in Rome and were just another Roman sweet? Pancakes aren’t an English tradition as well, the Dutch were the pioneers to the road we see of pancakes nowadays, and Pancakes were found to be around in the prehistoric era as one of the earliest prehistoric meals?

This was what we learned to do, and out of curiosity how would you do this for yourself, and what kind of questions would you ask? (doesn’t have to be about pancakes)

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