Part 1
My curiosity question: What kind of material is best for a whisk?
- What type of whisk is more useful/popular for cooking?
The balloon whisk is one of the most popular and useful whisks because of how its shaped and it has a lot of springs to it. With this balloon shape it creates air from the movement when cooking. This movement is good for making whipped cream or any heavy cream.
2. What material was the first whisk made of?
The first whisk which is known as birch whisks had birch twigs that were wired together in a shape of a bowl. Although they aren’t made of the popular stainless steel material it is flexible and is good for mixing light sauce like gravy but they are not good for mixing heavy stuff like whip cream.
Image link: https://www.cooksinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/Birch-whisks-TN.jpg 
3. Which group in the periodic table is a whisks material part of?
While making the stainless steel whisks they dip the wires in a tin liquid pool to make a ring in the bottom of the wires to create a whisk head as a unit. I would think that the stainless steel whisks is part of the other metals group in the periodic table because they tin dip a ring on the bottom of the wires and that’s the only material they use that’s on the periodic table that I know of. They use some type of metal type material for the handle but from my research they don’t make it clear what type of material it is.
4. How do they make a whisk?
Factories get 12-foot tubes and cut them in different lengths depending on the size of the handle. They then put the bottom parts of the handle and then grabs the roll of the stainless steel and puts them in a coil which then straightens it and bends it at the same time. The workers then place them and then once finished they tin dip the bottom of the wires to make them stick together. After they made the head, they put an epoxy in the handles and then stick the heads in the tubes and then proceeds to package them.
5. When was the first whisk invented?
In the united states of America, the whisk was made around the 1600s. But back then it was more of a wood brush which is known as birch whisks. The wire whisk was invented just before 1841. Julia’s television appearance in 1963 is what caused the wire whisk to become popular
Image link: https://i2.wp.com/daykeeperjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/julia-with-whisk.jpg?ssl=1
6. how many different types of materials do they use for a whisk?
It’s not specified in the video but it looks like they use a metal type material for the handle. They then use stainless steel wires, tin ring for the bottom and then another metal material (not specified) put in the tubes as a cap. I would say they use about 4 materials for each whisk.
Links:
https://www.thekitchn.com/a-brief-history-of-the-whisk-the-new-york-times-178897
https://www.cooksinfo.com/birch-whisks
Part 2
- What questions did you need to research in order to research your topic?
Questions I used to research for my topic were:
- Who discovered the whisk?
- When was the whisk created?
- When did the whisk became popular?
- How did factories make whisks?
- What type of whisk is more useful/popular for cooking?
- what material was the first whisk made
2. What new or familiar digital tools did you try to use as you worked through this project?
Digital tools I used for my research for this project are:
- Google for research
- YouTube to know how whisks were made
- Bing for pictures
3. What was the process you used to investigate the topic?
At first me and my partner tried to find what we had in common and we liked about ourselves and then tried to pick our main element for this project. We then worked together to make our research questions and then proceeded to do our research. We divided the questions so we can both answer two questions at a time and make this process faster. We both shared our answers together to see if we were okay with our answers and did some corrections. I then organized how my project would look like and got all the sources I used so that I wouldn’t plagiarize.
4. How did you verify and cite the information you found?
How I verified my information was that I looked through all my sites to see if they were supporting my element. How I verified the cite information is that I checked through cooking sites from my research and put them in the citation machine.
5. How did the process of completing this challenge go? What could you have done better?
I think that the process of completing this challenge went good. I think that me and my partner did a good job working together and was able to share our ideas and opinions. Something that we could’ve done better is to think of our questions faster because we took up a lot of time just thinking about what we were going to do and our research questions and just manage our time.