Minding your mummies
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2021 12:33 pm
Hello - my daughter is doing the Minding your mummies science fair project, with a slight twist (she is testing baking soda and salt, and pork and beef hot dogs).
Her results don't match the expected. The salt worked well on both dogs - they are stiff and don't smell.
The baking soda did not work - it shrunk after 7 days, but was still wiggly. By 14 days it smelled really bad, was not stiff and grew in size from 7 days.
We followed aspects of the experiment, and put the hot dogs in tupperware containers as the requirement for "air tight".
Was this incorrect? There was another post that this may be anerobic decomposition because the moisture is still trapped in the container?
Her results don't match the expected. The salt worked well on both dogs - they are stiff and don't smell.
The baking soda did not work - it shrunk after 7 days, but was still wiggly. By 14 days it smelled really bad, was not stiff and grew in size from 7 days.
We followed aspects of the experiment, and put the hot dogs in tupperware containers as the requirement for "air tight".
Was this incorrect? There was another post that this may be anerobic decomposition because the moisture is still trapped in the container?