Week 29: I'm terribly sorry this is Late.

Maddie, I want to appologize, the last two blog reflections i have done ARE LATE. I know!  I'm a bit off Track with all the material we have been doing!


Though this week, the cookie Lab was due on  Monday and i took on the responsibility of baking, i had gotten back from Canada that mornign so i was a BIT flustered! I followed recipie "F"  which oddly called for three table spoons of Vanilla, while i thought of this a strange, nothing else seemed to out of preportions so i simply kept bakign as  usual. Getting the baking cocoa into the batter was a bit difficult and my dad was adamant about me "blending" the cookies ( i did  it to appease him, dont EVER try it, it was  messy and about 90% of the batter stuck to the  mixers, which guess which lucky gal got to scrape it off? This one.) eventually  we made about 40 cookies or so, out of the supposed 54 it was intened to yield, i thought nothing of it till the next  day.

When we all " sampled" one another's recipes, we could tell when something was... off about some of the cookies, most often in size or color, but in one case a batch of cookies was WAYYY too salty. In the end, we picked the "true" recipe and discussed how excess and  limiting factors effect a  recipe, and  chemicla equations are the "recipes" of chemistry, i feel it was a good way to ease into the lesson.

Later in the week, we worked more on chemical equations, usuing worksheets and learnign about different  "types" of equations, i  find them all so interesting, i really like stoichiometry as a whole, i wonder if you can spend your life doing it? maybe but Mr. Abud says you're graded in college by your precent yield of  experiments and that, that scares me!

  Well i've looked through my phone but  i mustive done soemthign bwith the pictures of the  cookies i made, so i don't leave this blog blank, here's the "actual"  recipe that  we vall recieved  deviated versions for the cookie lab instead!

http://www.verybestbaking.com/recipes/18476/Original-NESTL%C3%89-TOLL-HOUSE-Chocolate-Chip-Cookies/detail.aspx