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>> RACHEL: Welcome back, it’s time for Chompers, your morning and night toothbrushing show.

Start brushing on the top of your mouth on one side, but don’t brush too hard.

>> KIDS: 3, 2, 1 brush!

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>> RACHEL: It’s Cooking Week, and tonight we have the answer to the quiz...

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>> RACHEL: -from this morning. Our question was…

How tall was the tallest cake ever made?

Was it…..

Ten feet — as tall as a basketball hoop?

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>> RACHEL: Fifty feet — as tall as a five-story building?

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>> RACHEL: Or over 100 feet — that’s taller than 5 giraffes stacked on top of each other?

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>> RACHEL: Ready for the answer? First, switch your brushing to the other side of the top of your mouth…

[SWITCH BELL]

>> RACHEL: and give me a drumroll by stomping your feet.

[DRUMROLL]

>> RACHEL: The answer is… over 100 feet! Taller than 5 giraffes stacked on top of each other!

>> KIDS: WOW!

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>> RACHEL: The tallest cake ever made was baked in a city called Jakarta, in a country called Indonesia, and it took a lot of ingredients to make a cake that big. A typical cake uses a couple of eggs. This one used 54,000 eggs!  

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>> RACHEL: Switch to the bottom of your mouth…

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>> RACHEL: -and brush the molars in the back, too.

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>> RACHEL: Baking any cake takes a lot of precision -- that means doing something very carefully.

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>> RACHEL: The amount of eggs, butter, flour, baking soda, and other ingredients needs to be just right, or your cake might come out of the oven dry and crumbly...

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>> RACHEL: or goopy.

[GOOP]

>> KID: YUCKY!

>> RACHEL: That’s because there’s a lot of science baked into a cake!

Switch to the other side of the bottom of your mouth…

[SWITCH BELL]

>> RACHEL: -and give your tongue a brush, too.

The scientific words for when batter turns into a cake in the oven is “chemical reaction”.

>> KID: HUH?

>> RACHEL: A chemical reaction means all the ingredients mix…

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>> RACHEL: -and then together become something totally new—a cake! Tell that to your teachers, and you might be able to get them to bring a cake to your next science lesson.

>> KID: YAY!

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>> RACHEL: That's it for Chompers tonight, but come back tomorrow to discover more cooking with us! Until then,

>> KIDS: 3, 2, 1 spit!

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>> RACHEL: Chompers is a production of Gimlet Media.