Scientific Explorer Scientific Explorer Sour Candy Food Activity Kit
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: Scientific ExplorerBrand: Scientific Explorer
Model: A256
Product features:
- Get ready to pucker up when you make your won sour candy
- This kit includes everything you need to make sour liquid candy, hard candy, powder candy, lollipops and more
- Over nearly two decades, Scientific Explorer has earned a reputation for creating science activity kits unmatched in the specialty retail market
- While it?s just as important for children to have as strong a foundation in science as they do in reading and math, test scores indicate that science knowledge is lagging
- Kit Includes corn syrup, gelatin, citric acid, raspberry flavor, watermelon flavor, grape flavor, 5 lollipop sticks, 2 candy molds, 1 pipette, 1 activity guide
Toys and Games Reviews of Scientific Explorer Scientific Explorer Sour Candy Food Activity Kit
Customer Review: Skip the lollipops, but the rest is okay...
Summary: 4 Stars
My kids love to help cook, but at 8 and 5 they need supervision (perhaps I do too; in the process of making the lollipops I got a nice burn on my thumb - the stuff looks cooled but it's not!) so we work together on these projects.
I bought this kit for my 8-year-old son's Christmas, and so far during Christmas break we've made three of the projects - the Sour Lollipops, the Liquid Sour Candy, and the Sour Marshmallows. We've run out of the included corn syrup (it doesn't *look* like regular corn syrup although if we try to make something that needs it we'll use regular Karo and see what happens), but there are no more projects that require it so I'm guessing there's just enough material included to make each project once, and that's fair. As mentioned in other reviews, I think you can get the special materials elsewhere if you choose to make any of these again.
Not everything you need is included, though - you'll need to have other things on hand like granulated sugar, powdered sugar, vanilla extract, mixing bowls, etc, to complete some of the projects.
Like other reviewers, we also felt the lollipops were a bust. This was my first time making hard candy so I didn't expect great results but hoped for something edible since the box listed the age range as 8+. The instructions *were* helpful in describing the various stages of candy so that wasn't the issue, although since the sugar mixture turned tan before we added the flavoring and citric acid it could be that we burned it and thus the taste was off (*waaaay* off). Either way, they tasted really bad and ended up in the trash; we did not try again. Still, even though the kids were disappointed, I still learned something. :]
The Sour Liquid Candy was much better - tasted as expected (very tart with a little sweet); some people liked it (my son) while others didn't. That's normal.
The Sour Marshmallows are our favorites so far - quite fun! They aren't like store-bought marshmallows, but we made them and they tasted good. :] We hope to do these again soon.
I'm not sure the kit was worth the two Hamiltons I paid for it at TRU, but it still has been fun and we still have a few projects to go... the Sour Rock Candy has to wait until we buy a new bag of sugar (takes 4 cups of sugar per batch), and the Sour Powder Candy and Sour Gummis look really simple which means the kids can do more of the work.
Overall we have enjoyed this product. Might be just as enjoyable to find the recipes online and put together your own kit as a gift, but if you're short on time this is a decent substitute. :]
Description of Scientific Explorer Scientific Explorer Sour Candy Food Activity Kit
Get ready to pucker up as you make your own sour candy. How sour can you go? This kit includes everything you need to make sour liquid candy, hard candy, powder candy, lollipops and more! Measures 12"L x 2.75"W x 10"H.Science Toys
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