
Cooking Spray Brands and Food Sticking
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Why do cookies stick to some baking sheets but slide right off others? The type of cooking spray you use might be the reason. Name brands and store brands may not perform the same way.
You bake the same cookie recipe on four sheets. One gets a name-brand spray. Another gets a store brand. A third gets a different name brand. The last sheet gets no spray at all. You rate each result on a scale from one to four.
Compare the scores to see whether the brand of spray makes a real difference.
Hypothesis
The hypothesis is that name brand cooking spray will work the best, supermarket brands will be a close comparison, and that any amount of spray will work better than none at all.
Method & Materials
You will make a chocolate cookie recipe, spray cookie sheets with different sprays, drop cookie dough on the sheets, bake the cookies, and record the data.
You will need a chocolate cookie recipe, all ingredients needed to make dough, utensils, 4 cookie sheets, 1 can of Pam, Crisco, and Stop & Shop cooking sprays.
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See what’s includedResults
The data indicates that name brand cooking sprays work the best when baking cookies. Crisco and Pam cooking sprays received a 4, Stop & Shop spray received a 3, and no spray received a 2.
Why do this project?
This science project is interesting because it shows how different cooking sprays can affect the outcome of a recipe.
Also Consider
Experiment variations to consider include using different recipes, different brands of cooking spray, and different amounts of cooking spray.
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