Showing posts with label Peeps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peeps. Show all posts
Fountaining Peeps Hearts
What happens when you microwave Peeps hearts in a bottle: they expand and fountain out!
Peeps Hearts that Grow
For Valentine's day, I blew up my Peeps hearts in a vacuum jar (as much of a vacuum as you can get with a FoodSaver kitchen appliance, anyway.) As the air was pumped out of the jar, the air bubbles inside the marshmallow heart expanded, pushing out the sides of the heart. When I let the air back into the jar, the heart collapsed.
Peeps Experiments (Overheard)
Conversation between three 7-year-old candy experimenters:
-"Oh, no. You can only fit about four jelly beans inside of a Peep. Then it'll explode."
-"More Peep eyes!"
-"I put Peep Eyes in your candy stew."
-"Why don't I get any Peep eyes?"
-"You'll need lots of surgery after this, Peep."
-"Peep blood! Peep blood!"
-"Take all the dead Peeps out."
-"I need to get my Peeps nice and soft."
-"Which ones are ready for the candy graveyard?"
-"Oh, no. You can only fit about four jelly beans inside of a Peep. Then it'll explode."
-"More Peep eyes!"
-"I put Peep Eyes in your candy stew."
-"Why don't I get any Peep eyes?"
-"You'll need lots of surgery after this, Peep."
-"Peep blood! Peep blood!"
-"Take all the dead Peeps out."
-"I need to get my Peeps nice and soft."
-"Which ones are ready for the candy graveyard?"
Floating Easter Candy
Spring is in the air, and hearts are light. So is Easter candy.
Floating Easter candy, including Peeps and chocolate covered marshmallows
Why is Easter candy so floatable? Maybe nothing says springtime like marshmallow.
Floating Easter candy, including Peeps and chocolate covered marshmallows
Why is Easter candy so floatable? Maybe nothing says springtime like marshmallow.
Stale Peeps Test
A friend of mine was recently given 2 enormous boxes of stale Peeps. What to do with them? Well, I could think of a few things. Like testing them in the microwave.
The verdict: stale Peeps don't expand nearly as much in the microwave as fresh ones. Here's proof. (The stale Peeps are the ones on the left.)
The verdict: stale Peeps don't expand nearly as much in the microwave as fresh ones. Here's proof. (The stale Peeps are the ones on the left.)
Shrinking Ghosts
If you're going to test marshmallows, you've got to use some Peeps out of principle. Here are some really spooky Halloween ghosts--they shrink by themselves.
We took an empty plastic bottle, drilled a hole in the lid, and stuck in a basketball air pump, wrapping rubber bands around the pump insert to help create a seal. Though the seal wasn't perfect, we were able to pump in enough air to increase the pressure in the bottle, and sink our ghosts.
The eerie moaning isn't ghostly howling, it's air escaping from our leaky bottle.
We took an empty plastic bottle, drilled a hole in the lid, and stuck in a basketball air pump, wrapping rubber bands around the pump insert to help create a seal. Though the seal wasn't perfect, we were able to pump in enough air to increase the pressure in the bottle, and sink our ghosts.
The eerie moaning isn't ghostly howling, it's air escaping from our leaky bottle.
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