Double dipping chips

What is double dipping? These are the people who take a bite and dip their chips a second time when they think no one is looking. Leave it to George Costanza on Seinfeld to make double dipping a mainstream public health scare.

Ketchup chips are the best. The young experimenter for this project is none other than Jack Spangler.

After seeing an episode of Mythbusters, Jack didn’t necessarily see eye-to-eye with the show’s conclusion – double-dipping is no big deal. Purchase a sixteen ounce carton of Ranch dip from the store. Prepare three Petri dishes with nutrient agar (using the technique described in the kit instructions). Allow the liquid to harden in the Petri dishes overnight.

Keep the Petri dishes covered so that bacteria cannot get into the agar. Divide the Ranch dip equally into three clean bowls. Label the first bowl “plain dip.

Get a large chip and dip it into the “plain dip” bowl.

Only dip the chip once. This will be the “control. See full list on stevespanglerscience.

The hypothesis was easy to prove – my double-dipped bowl of dip had less bacteria than the “whole mouth” bowl. But I was surprised to see how much bacteria was really in the double-dipped bowl. If you think about it, the chip just touches your mouth for a split second before you plunge back in and get some more dip. I was really surprised to find how much bacteria there was in the “plain dip” Petri dish. When I read more about bacteria in foo I discovered that there is a lot of good bacteria in food.

I wonder if there would have been as much bacteria if I would have used salsa instead of a sour cream kind of dip? Some people would say it’s not that big of a deal, but my tests show that the bacteria from my mouth still grew… and it’s gross! Double-dipping your chip is not a good idea. Additional Information: Food science students at Clemson Universityexamined the effects of double-dipping using volunteers, wheat crackers, and several sample dips.

They found that three to six double. The Double Dip Chip Challenge clearly follows the requirements of an effective science fair project. It uses a control (the dip with the single dipped chip) and then changes a variable(the double dipped chips), runs some tests under standardized conditions, and then makes comparisons of the.

If you’d like to try this experiment for your own science fair project, don’t take Jack Spangler’s word for it. Do the same thing and see if you can validate his.

Do everything else the same. If the are different, what might that indicate about that particular person’s mou. Change the person who double dips the chips.

Plain Dip– After three days, I noticed that there were some things growing. There are at least 28… maybe more. In experiment eight subjects dipped. Verb: the act of re-dipped a previously bitten out of chip or vegetable.

It is considered an offense in many households, and many parties. Origin: a Sienfeld episode in which George Castanza double dipped a chip , to the dismay of a party-goer. Shop Dip And Chips at Target.

For All Of Your Entertaining Needs. Save with your REDcard. But why take the chance with someone else’s saliva? And if you are a notorious double dipper, please keep your half-used chip out. In the latest episode of British television show Food.

It is one of the most famous and most damning accusations in all of popular culture: “You double dipped the chip! You dipped the chip, you took a bite, and you dipped again! Actor Kieran Mulroney.