Professional and amateur bakers alike might insist that baking a Christmas fruitcake is an art, but is it science? A couple of days ago I listed suggested crazy uses of fruitcake, but on none of the lists was as a science experiment. Again, I was wrong.... Fruitcake Science Festival; The Science Museum of Virginia conduct unconventional science experiments on fruitcake as an annual holiday event on 26 December.- 30 December. Fruitcakes are burnt, dropped from great heights and even nitrogen frozen all in the name of science. In one demonstration, a museum educator found that fruitcake was so dense that all attempts of burning, freezing, and beating made much difference to the cake. “Fruitcakes are like cockroaches, they’ll survive pretty much anything,” said Kramer, a science educator at the museum. Fruitcake Physics : For a more practical approach to fruitcake science experiments, Professor Braham of University of Bristol examines t...
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