Question: do you enjoy all aspects of science?

Jess Wade answered on 19 Jun 2015:

I love experiments and writing up experiments. I also love the teaching I can do. I love the freedom to take my creativity from art and cooking and put it in the lab- use my cooking skills to measure molecules of conductors not molecules of onions! Sometimes it gets really stressful when you can’t work out why something is happening, or often why it isn’t happening!

I don’t like when experiments go wrong. Sometimes when I’m heating my molecules up to 350 C they set on fire ! Then there are some awful smells. Once something did a weird thing called ‘subliming’- it changed straight from a solid to a gas without becoming liquid. That’s like an ice cube becoming steam without being water! It went everywhere, and painted the ceiling of our lab neon orange! This happens in the kitchen too- me and my dad have competitions to see who can cut the celery and carrots the smallest. Once we spent about two hours preparing all of the ingredients and browning the meat, then we added a cube of fish stock rather than beef stock! Nightmare! We had to throw the whole thing away!