Blog 15

I'm excited to say that we have finally begun the actual work for our experiment! Mr. Calos had our supplies ready for us on Monday and we got to work right away. He bought us two ice trays, clear-colored Capri Sun, toothpicks, cups, and color dye. The first step was filling a cup with one packet of Capri Sun and adding two drops of color. The first color we made was green. We stirred the dye around with the straw and then, slowly and meticulously, filled half of the ice tray. It was somewhat of a challenge to make sure each space in the tray was filled with the same amount. We made sure to leave about a centimeter at the top so the cubes wouldn't overflow once they froze. We then repeated the process with the blue dye. After filling one entire tray, we covered it with saran wrap and sticked toothpicks through the plastic into each hole. The purpose of the saran wrap is to create the perfectly flat bottoms of the popsicles. This was another slight challenge, as the toothpicks did not tend to go in straight but preferred to be slanted. Our first tray is frozen by now and tomorrow we will continue by making the other colors. So far, our experiment is really interesting and fun. Once again, our hypothesis is that the color of the popsicle will directly influence the person's perception of the taste even though the flavor of each popsicle is identical.