The other day I mentioned that one Home Truth™ is to never “taste” anything you find on the kitchen island that you have not placed there yourself, because that is the current site of home experiments. I encourage this for the most part, especially when Eldest decides to cook. I must say, she is getting good at the whole cooking thing. I just wish she would do it more often.
Anyway, last night as I was pouring the last glass of wine for the next forty days and forty nights, I noticed that the last “experiment” was still on the counter. Here is the photo of the experiment before:
Pretty innocuous, right? Looks like a bowl of water, which is what I thought it was, and almost dumped out, until I reached inside it:
I have to thank my friend Nicole for this. These are reconstituted “spit balls” she sent Son for Christmas. This turned into a water refraction experiment which they used to explain this to their younger sister:
They get this from their father.
The drama that resulted from me almost spilling this? That they get from me 😉
February 22nd, 2012 at 9:11 AM
Ooooh. I have seen pearls for making various caviar-like pearls of jellies, pestos, and sauces… But this is a great usage. Must try this with Cruel Wife.
I would never have seen them, they so closely match the index of refraction of pure water. The shell, such as it is must refract some but it is so thin….. Hmmmm.
You are so lucky.
February 22nd, 2012 at 9:12 AM
Oh come on, I’m just now getting 2+2=4, and you throw this at me?
February 22nd, 2012 at 9:24 AM
eeeyewwwwwwww! I thought they were those glass balls that go into flower vases or fish tanks……
February 22nd, 2012 at 9:28 AM
Y’know, most siblings explain how to sneak into/out of the house so that the parental units don’t wake up….. 😛
February 22nd, 2012 at 10:19 AM
The future is in good hands.
Oh, wait. From a vendor website: “Spitballs are primarily projectiles.”
Now I’m really interested!
February 22nd, 2012 at 3:50 PM
Now that, is cool. Kitchen Stealth. Bowl Stealth. I can visualize many applications where that would be useful. Send me the recipe.
February 22nd, 2012 at 4:18 PM
Those are cool. I had hoped they would be. 🙂
February 22nd, 2012 at 4:31 PM
Girl, they will NOT let me remove them from the kitchen. I think they will be a permanent addition to the island 😀
February 22nd, 2012 at 6:49 PM
Oooo I need some of those…
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:21 AM
I…….ok rendered speechless. My mother used to ask my siblings if they were intentionally growing things in the glasses they always left partially filled in their rooms or their pile of laundry. But leaving experiments on the kitchen counter so wrong.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:16 AM
Wow. I could have used those when I was a kid. They have definite ‘military’ applications.
February 24th, 2012 at 7:11 AM
If they’re edible, they’d make great little alcohol-infused party favors. You could even put food dye in the beverages before adding them to the spit balls to give ’em an added Cool Effect ™. 🙂