The Week of Fudge

This week if you couldn't tell already by the title ,we made fudge/mushy dark chocolate. Also, we finished our lab aprons. The week went so quickly because we didn't have to go to school on Monday because it was Labor Day.

To start off the week we learned all about dimensional analysis. I think by the end of the week everyone was sick of it. I learned how to convert units of measurement, such as gallons to teaspoons which took forever it seemed. Learning to do these conversions will definitely help me when I am baking and cooking.

On Wednesday we started our fudge lab, but we just did conversions, we did not make any fudge. To make the fudge, Mrs. Giacomelli gave us the joyous task of converting all our ingredients into different units. On Thursday we actually made our fudge. Since the hard part of converting the ingredients was already over, making the fudge was pretty easy. We didn't even need the fire extinguisher! The fudge tasted like mushy dark chocolate icing.

This week Mrs.Giacomelli  told us a story but not just any story, a story about significant figures and how the zeros couldn't get into a club. This story helped me understand a little bit more of how significant figures work. I learned that if a zero is ''sandwiched'' in between two non zero numbers it is considered significant. This was a really neat way of remembering this! This week I think I can definitely improve on triple checking my labs to make sure that I have all the questions right. This week was filled with fudge and significant figures.

Attached is a link to how we should have made our fudge.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/old-time-chocolate-fudge-recipe.html

''fudge''

making the ''fudge''

my lab apron