What cool things can you do with fruit?
September 8, 2010 5:53 PM Subscribe
Weird or interesting things you can do with fruit? I'm looking for a list of fun/scientific/cool/interesting things you can do with fruit, any fruit...
As an example, you can squirt orange juice straight from the peel and set it on fire. Lemon juice will lighten hair. Pumpkin or watermelon carvings. Apple bongs. Potato/fruit cannons or guns. You get the idea...
As an example, you can squirt orange juice straight from the peel and set it on fire. Lemon juice will lighten hair. Pumpkin or watermelon carvings. Apple bongs. Potato/fruit cannons or guns. You get the idea...
Potato clocks (you can make these without a commercial kit...) can also run on some citrus and other fruit.
posted by brainmouse at 6:00 PM on September 8, 2010
posted by brainmouse at 6:00 PM on September 8, 2010
Best answer: Lemon juice can also be used as invisible ink.
posted by JoanArkham at 6:00 PM on September 8, 2010
posted by JoanArkham at 6:00 PM on September 8, 2010
Fruit as a battery is always fun. This DNA experiment uses kiwi fruit (link might go to the home page, just drop down the list under 'green stuff').
posted by shinybaum at 6:03 PM on September 8, 2010
posted by shinybaum at 6:03 PM on September 8, 2010
Are you open to cool things you can do with vegetables? I've always loved making cabbage pH paper.
posted by brainmouse at 6:10 PM on September 8, 2010
posted by brainmouse at 6:10 PM on September 8, 2010
Response by poster: Only if it can be replicated with fruit eg you can carve a watermelon in the same way as a pumpkin. Keep 'em coming, these are great!
posted by Jubey at 6:12 PM on September 8, 2010
posted by Jubey at 6:12 PM on September 8, 2010
You can make one-ingredient ice cream using only bananas.
posted by phunniemee at 6:17 PM on September 8, 2010 [3 favorites]
posted by phunniemee at 6:17 PM on September 8, 2010 [3 favorites]
My art history professor made a model of the Hagia Sophia out of cantaloupe and grape fruit in the middle of his lecture. I'll never forget that class.
posted by Sukey Says at 6:51 PM on September 8, 2010
posted by Sukey Says at 6:51 PM on September 8, 2010
Lemon pig. Slice a banana before it's peeled. Shrunken head apples. Popular Mechanics offers some Easy Tricks with Fruit from 1928.
posted by jessamyn at 6:51 PM on September 8, 2010
posted by jessamyn at 6:51 PM on September 8, 2010
Best answer: Cut a banana in half. Stick in a wooden stick so that the banana looks like a hammer. Immerse said banana hammer in liquid nitrogen until it is good and solid. Pound a nail with your new hammer!
posted by rockindata at 6:54 PM on September 8, 2010
posted by rockindata at 6:54 PM on September 8, 2010
Fruit printmaking. If you use firmer things such as an apple or a potato* you can carve designs into them and use them as stamps.
*not a fruit. This is a potato's fruit. The gardener in me just can't let it go.
posted by jamaro at 6:58 PM on September 8, 2010
*not a fruit. This is a potato's fruit. The gardener in me just can't let it go.
posted by jamaro at 6:58 PM on September 8, 2010
Watermelon teeth. Carve the peel into a beautiful new set of chompers.
posted by SLC Mom at 7:47 PM on September 8, 2010
posted by SLC Mom at 7:47 PM on September 8, 2010
You might find a few more ideas in this previous thread.
posted by Orinda at 8:16 PM on September 8, 2010
posted by Orinda at 8:16 PM on September 8, 2010
I'm not sure if this qualifies, but you can slice a banana before peeling it.
posted by bunglin jones at 8:19 PM on September 8, 2010
posted by bunglin jones at 8:19 PM on September 8, 2010
Cut an apple in half along the equator. Open it up and see the star inside. This will sometimes charm small children.
posted by marsha56 at 9:46 PM on September 8, 2010
posted by marsha56 at 9:46 PM on September 8, 2010
Response by poster: All of these were great, I just marked the ones I didn't already have that were especially trippy. Thanks, and feel free to add more if you think of any.
posted by Jubey at 12:08 AM on September 9, 2010
posted by Jubey at 12:08 AM on September 9, 2010
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Fruit-powered clock (or fruit-powered anything that needs a very low current power source)
Carbonated grapes: 1. Fill a 1 liter bottle with grapes. 2. Put in a SMALL piece of dry ice (too much and it's a bomb - don't fuck that step up) 3. Close the bottle 4. Wait until the dry ice has sublimed, then wait a couple hours. 5. Cut open the bottle and eat. Fizzy grapes!!!
posted by Salvor Hardin at 6:00 PM on September 8, 2010 [2 favorites]