Looking Back:
My experiment didn’t turn out how I wanted it to be. When I first open it after 4 days it had not carbonated at all, So what I did is I put a little more yeast and let it sit for 5 days more and after opening that it got so carbonated it exploded. After it finished exploding it had a very interesting smell. When I first made it, It had an odd brown color but after letting it sit for 5 days the color got darker. When we first tried it,it tasted really sugary. The thing that we figured out is the the yeast we had was bad. If we were going to do this again we probably would make sure to get new yeast and maybe get it from a really yeast place
Looking Beyond:
Materials:
- 1 gallon
- spoon
- 8 cups of sugar
- 1 packet of champagne yeast
- soda extract
- 1/2 cup lukewarm water
- caramel flavor
Process:
- Dissolve yeast into 1/2 a cup of warm water, let it soak for five minutes
- Mix sugar, soda extract, and dissolved yeast into the gallon container, add enough water to fill up the rest of the container
- Shake until sugar is completely dissolved
- Use a funnel to pour soda mixture into bottles
- Let the bottles sit in a dark room for 4-6 days, squeeze bottles everyday, if too firm let out a small amount of carbonation
Safety Hazard:
Make sure you wear goggles when opening the container in case it blows up in your face.
Clean Up:
If anything gets on the table we will wipe it down.
Documentation:
We will take videos of the entire process.
Science:
Yeast, like humans, obtain energy from breaking down sugar molecules. This requires oxygen, and is known as aerobic respiration. If there is no oxygen around, humans will die. Yeast however, have a metabolic trick that allows them to survive: in the absence of oxygen, yeast can derive energy from sugar in a process known as anaerobic respiration, or fermentation. The two byproducts of yeast fermentation are ethanol (alcohol) and carbon dioxide (fizzy bubbles).
Looking inward:
I didn’t get the results I wanted to but I got a lot out of it. The result I wanted was to be able for it to carbonate and be able to drink it, The result I got was it blew up and rotted. When I redo this project I now know that you have to be careful with how much yeast you put in it and not let it sit longer than a week.
I think I performed well in this project since I was the only one that did it. In this project I had good time management skills and got it done when in the time I had planned.
Takeaways:
Some takeaways I have gotten from this is experiment is how to make soda, how different chemical reactions. The chemical reaction I had happen was the yeast carbonated the soda to much and the bottle exploded when I opened it