Science! Part Three, This Time With Ice Cream!

This was the only time Graham did any of his own work... 

We're pretty into science for the sake of science, but what if we could do a science experiment that ended up creating something delicious?? Would that be just too much amazingness? Well my friend, if you answered "yes" to that, then I guess too much amazingness is what we had the other afternoon, when we made homemade ice cream in a bag.

I've been sitting on this project all summer, waiting for the perfect combination of a hot afternoon, some energy to burn, and me having remembered to purchase the necessary ingredients. We started out with half and half, vanilla, and some sugar in a small ziploc bag. We filled up a gallon size bag with ice and rock salt...

"There's no way this is going to end well"- what Brendan is thinking. 

...and then we put the small bag into the bigger one. We had an added bonus in that Colleen was over and could help.

Colleen helps set up the bags of ice. 

Graham pretends he is going to put some elbow grease into this thing. 

 In fact Graham charmed Colleen into doing pretty much all of the hard stuff for him.

I will simply entertain you all by blowing bubbles and grinning!  Fair trade?

It took us a while, and I learned you really get what you pay for as far as "heavy duty freezer bags" go, but after some serious shaking....

"Shake it up!" -The Cars song I sang that no one else in these pictures had ever heard of.

...we were finally seeing some progress! It was almost time to enjoy the fruits of our labor. 

First we will pretend we are selling this ice cream from our shop, obviously.

Me too! 

Everyone Brendan was incredulous that we could take what looked like milk and turn it into ice cream with our bare hands, but lo and behold! 

I think we did it!

I am fairly certain we have done it!

So now, the best part, obviously- taste test!! 

Well let's see...

Hmmm...

Ummmm...

Yes.

Yep.

Obviously, as scientists, we needed to address our original hypothesis: were we, in fact able to create something truly delicious? I will let Brendan answer that one. 

Eureka!