Do you like hot and spicy foods? I do. I like to feel the heat build up in a variety of ways depending on the kind of heat. But, just what is that makes a food HOT? What is the ingredient?
I used to teach high school physics. During my last few years, I was fortunate to have a colleague much younger than I who taught many of the sections. He was lots of fun. We always enjoyed making physics fun for the kids regardless of the topic. After our unit on heat and calorimetry, we decided to add a fun lesson on hot foods. Not temperature hot, but spicy hot. He had friends in Indiana who grew peppers on their farm in large numbers. Each summer he would go help them harvest and come home with some amazing hot sauces. He put together a powerpoint to share with the kids in our classes. That is the subject of this diary. I hope you like it.
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Of courses, some students don't believe you when you tell them to not eat too much of a hot sauce. We usually had some samples for them to taste if they wanted. They ranged from jellies to a nice chili to a cheese sauce dip. A couple of the samples we had out were extra hot. They were not to try more that a tiny drop on a toothpick. Well, some had to be show offs and prove they had more testosterone than anyone else. Those kids sometimes ended up in the bathroom or gulping our gallon of milk as fast as possible.
How about you? Have you tried these? Do you have some funny stories of hot foods? Let's hear them.