SIP Experiment Trial 1

I decided to go ahead with my experiment yesterday! After buying the necessary materials, I was all ready to start. All I can say is that I only wish I had done more thinking before starting because the experiment was a total failure!

- The first thing I did was to get 10 transparent plastic cups and 10 small paper plates to put the peach slices and different liquids in. I decided to use two fruits for each type of fruit because I highly suspected the tiny lime may not contain enough juice to submerge the peach slice. But I overlooked one problem: the fact that at first slice of the knife, some juice squirted out. This was an especially big problem for the limes because every drop of juice could not be wasted. Thus in the end, I used 3 limes to make up for the wastage.

- I then laid everything out nicely onto the table before getting ready to cut the peaches. However, as soon as I had cut the peaches and was all ready to put the peaches into the cups, I realised I had forgotten to label all the cups and plates! Frantically, I began labeling them, but by the time I had finished the peaches were already turning brown!

- I decided to just continue with the experiment to see if I would encounter any more problems, even though I knew I would have to conduct the experiment again because the peaches were brown. So I took the peaches out at regular 5 minute intervals and placed them on the plates to see how brown the peaches were. (see pictures below)

There were a few problems with this:

1. I used chopsticks to take the peaches out, but the peaches were quite slippery and every time I took them out they seemed to disintegrate a little.

2. It was difficult to take them out all at once once the 5 minute interval was reached. The same problem was encountered at the starting to place all the peaches into the cups at the same time.

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Peaches in cups

Peaches taken out after 5 minutes



Peaches taken out after 10 minutes

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 So I encountered quite a number of problems in this try. In my next post I shall state what I should improve on to make the experiment more successful :)