Black, White Or In-Between?

For the last few weeks, the whole of Mapua school has been doing science experiments for the annual Nelson Science Fair. Here is our story:

We (Kelly, Eva and Emma) decided on doing our experiment on chocolate!!! We surfed the net looking for some ideas and found the one we wanted: Which cadbury chocolate flavour is the best to use when modeling chocolate?

Once we had our question, we started to think of how we would judge the chocolates and what method we would use. We came up with three categories for testing- Fastest to Melt, Fastest to Set and Best Looking.

We then decided that our method would be to put a small plastic bowl in a bigger plastic bowl fill of boiling water and time how long it takes the chocolate to melt. We then would put the melted chocolate into the chosen moulds, place it in the freezer and time how long it takes to set. And finally, we would judge the appearance of the finished chocolate by looking at the outside, and then cutting it in half and looking at the inside. We rated the appearance out of 15.

We found the averages of all the tests (we did 3 tests for each chocolate in each category)

and then figured out the overall winner. The winner was dark chocolate, so if you are ever modeling chocolate, then use dark because it is the best thing when it comes to the easiest and best looking chocolates!

Although we didn’t make it into the Nelson Science Fair, we had a great time working in our experiment, and we definitely enjoyed eating it!

Although we didn’t make it into the Nelson Science Fair, we had a great time working in our experiment, and we definitely enjoyed eating it!