Let me be transparent–I’m not going to pretend these kitchen experiments won’t create a mess. They will. There will be vinegar on your floor, food coloring on hands that lasts a day or two, and ...

Fun science experiments kids will actually love Science doesn’t have to be complicated to spark curiosity. With simple household items, you can turn your kitchen or living room into a mini-lab for ...

Several times while reading “The Food Lab,” the new cookbook from J. Kenji López-Alt, I wished I had the text in a keyword-searchable format—I wanted to put on my Internet goggles and surf.

The year was 2006. I had started posting my kitchen experiments on my blog, Saffron Trail. I am consciously choosing the term experiments because I was still finding my feet in the kitchen, putting ...

The last time I did science in the home with an 11-year-old, something happened that I can’t tell you about until the person whose chair it was has died. That is my abiding conclusion about the ...

Pour some milk in a dish (whole milk works best, but honestly, use whatever’s not expired), drop in some food coloring, then touch it with a dish soap-dipped cotton swab. The colors will scatter like ...