User:Lpham96/ENES-100/project 1

My Instructor's user page which points to this.

Week1
Brown algae and calcium chloride create a gel, which is water resistant. [| Video]

Week2
My task this week was to research for links and videos that relate to edible water bottle project and put them into categories.

Beeswax Health Benefits

How Food Affects Health

Best and Worst Foods

Healthy Eating

Digestion Tips

Poor Digestion

Gut Toxicity / Food Allergies

Edible Science Projects

Edible Chemicals

Disposable Plates

Edible Lunchbox

Edible, Biodegradable, and Vegan Cups

My next task is to make edible film from beeswax and starch

My task this week was
Trying to make edible film from beeswax and starch

What I did
Could not find where to buy beeswax so I rendered beeswax from honeycomb. This was the process:  File:Homemade_Beeswax.jpeg|Homemade Beeswax File:Bean_Starch.jpeg|Bean Starch File:Melt_the_Beeswax.jpeg|Melted beeswax into liquid - simmer (added 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil) File:Starch_and_Beeswax.jpeg|Then put 1 cup of bean starch into the liquid - stir File:Oops~.jpeg|The mixture looked like mash potato. Added 1/2 cup of water to dilute it File:Starch.jpeg|Put the mixture in a Ziploc and laminated as thin as possible.Waited for 1 hour. 

Here was the | outcome

Next step

 * Lessen the starch


 * Get more beeswax


 * Put what was done in the Google Drive presentation

My task this week was

 * Doing second trial
 * Met the requirement, make the film water resistance

What I did
Looked for places that sell beeswax and found that they sell it online.

Did not have enough time to wait for the shipping.

Made beeswax again.

 File:1 box honeycomb.jpeg|1 box of honeycomb 11x11cm to make beeswax. File:Melt beeswax.jpeg|Melt homemade beeswax with 1 teaspoon of oil. File:Bean starch.jpeg|Added 3 tablespoons of bean starch. File:Brownish liquid.jpeg|Brownish thick liquid. File:Brownish film.jpeg|Dried quickly. Then formed a thin film. 

This is the result

Next step

 * Compare to Courney's result
 * Complete Google Drive presentation
 * Complete Edible Water Bottle page