Sugar, Sugar
This is another name for powdered sugar
What is confectioners’ sugar? To prevent clumping, it’s mixed with cornstarch.
Two pints equal this.
What is a quart? Thirty-two ounces equals one quart. Four quarts equals one gallon.
This common kitchen slow-cooking appliance was unveiled by the Rival Manufacturing company at a 1971 housewares show.
What is the Crock-Pot? The slow cooker originated in 1936 in a Lithuanian village, where Jewish families prepared stews slowly on Fridays.
Though these land areas can be cold, they are usually known for their hot, dry climate.
What are deserts? The Antarctic continent is the outlier; it’s a huge desert, even though it’s cold.
This natural water wonder spans Canada and the United States.
What is Niagara Falls? The three waterfalls have the highest flow rate of all falls on Earth.
This is the sugar substitute in the pink packet.
What is Sweet’N Low? It’s a popular brand of saccharin, and it’s 300–500 times sweeter than sugar.
This kitchen small appliance company was founded in 1971 and is renowned for its food processors, ice cream makers, blenders, convection ovens, and coffee makers.
What is Cuisinart? Conair, a popular maker of personal care products such as hair dryers, now owns the company.
In 1986, Panasonic began selling this domestic baking machine, which allows users to create rye, sourdough, and other recipes.
What is a bread machine? An industrial version has existed since the 1890s, but Panasonic’s was a first for home bakers.
Pottery is fired in these hot ovens.
What are kilns? Temperatures for home kilns typically range from 2,000º to 2,400º Fahrenheit (1,093º to 1,316º Celsius).
Fruit and vegetable production relies heavily on these stinging pollinators.
What are bees? Honeybees also provide food. Bees must gather pollen from around two million flowers to make a pound of honey
This gives brown sugar its flavor.
What is molasses? When the molasses loses moisture due to air exposure, this causes brown sugar to harden. When brown sugar clumps, place a piece of bread in the container and return in an hour. The molasses in the sugar absorbs the moisture from the bread.
This is another word for sour.
What is tart? Cherries come in two major varieties: sweet and tart.
Emerging in the 1970s, these coffee machines were promoted by Joe DiMaggio and became popular Christmas gifts.
What is Mr. Coffee? The machine claimed to use an ideal 200ºF (93.3ºC) setting for the water, producing a strong but not bitter coffee.
This once powered trains.
What is steam? Hot steam under immense pressure powered the trains.
Today we have regulations and technologies to help lower carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But we still depend on these living things to pull the greenhouse gas out of the air.
What are plants or trees? In one year, a mature tree absorbs 22 pounds of carbon dioxide and releases enough oxygen for one person to breathe for two years.
Sugar is derived from the sugarcane plant or this root vegetable.
What is sugar beet? The majority of U.S. sugar comes from the sugar beet plant.
This means to one-up or gain an advantage over your intellectual opponent.
What is outsmart? According to Chinese military general Sun Tsu, one way to outsmart your opponent is to use the art of deception to appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak.
This former heavyweight champ began selling his “lean, mean grilling machine” in the mid-’90s.
Who is George Foreman? The grill was created by Michael Boehm, who wanted the fat to drip off the grill’s angled surface.
Magma is made of these melted or partially melted materials.
What are rocks? The liquefied rock is called magma when it is below Earth’s surface. Upon eruption, it is called lava. Temperatures range between 1,300º and 2,400º Fahrenheit (700º to 1,300º Celsius).
This dwarf planet was discovered in 1930 and hasn’t made a revolution around the sun since then.
What is Pluto? It takes 248.09 years for Pluto to complete one revolution around the sun.
This is the generic name for Splenda.
What is sucralose? Sucralose is 600 times sweeter than table sugar.
To go against the grain is to upset this
What is applecart? The idiom originated in Roman times, when it meant “to mess up the whole thing.”
A 1980 Ginsu commercial for these products popularized the catchphrase “But wait, there’s more!”
What are knives? The commercials became popular because of their over-the-top hawking of the products.
The heat of peppers is measured on this scale.
What is the Scoville scale? Bell peppers are in the 2,000-unit range. The hottest pepper, the Carolina Reaper, can reach 2.2 million Scoville units.
This peak in the Himalayan Mountains straddles Nepal and Tibet.
What is Mount Everest? Visitors who don’t want to climb to the peak at 29,029 feet can book a sightseeing flight.