D.I.Y: Ruin a spoon!

Materials: a small quantity of butter wrapped in a plastic baggy, one of those plastic ladle-like spoons used for drinking porridge, fire

*Note: works best at night, hen you can’t see what’s happening

1: Place the butter, still wrapped in the bag, into the spoon

2: Hold the spoon over the edge of the fire. You should be holding it mostly over hot coals and small flames, not the large flames, which will burn the spoon and your hand

3: Continue holding the spoon until you think the butter must be sufficiently melted. If you headed the advice to undertake this project at night, you will not be able to monitor the state of the butter as it is melting.

4: Success! You will have melted to the butter to a consistency drinkable by a month-old baby (who will shortly be fed the butter to make him fall asleep) AND you will have melted the spoon!