Stay-at-home science project: Make ice cream in a bag
Few things are better than ice cream you've made yourself. (John Kennedy/)Welcome to PopSci’s at-home science projects series. On weekdays at noon, we’ll be posting new projects that use ingredients you can buy at the grocery store. Show us how it went by tagging your project on social media using #popsciprojects.This is where we usually tell you why a project is fun, educational, or useful as justification for why you should make it yourself. But come on, we’re making ice cream. It’s a timeless dessert that appeals to almost everybody, and you can make a bowl of it with just some dairy, sugar, and flavoring.Yes, we’re making this ice cream in a bag, but we promise it works a lot better than the last time we tried to make food in a plastic bag. It’s also a bit of an arm workout, which just means you will have earned this...