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Homemade Marshmallows Roasted on a 15,000 Volt Jacob’s Ladder

April 18th, 2008 | By: Bre Pettis

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Thursdays are craft night at NYCR and this week we had all sorts of things going on. People were making the coolest crafts! (More posts about deadly soft crafted robots and knitted scarfs made with number sets later.)

Danielle arrived with homemade marshmallows and it took about 15 seconds to whip out the Jacob’s Ladder and roast them with 15,000 volts of electricity. They tasted good that way too!

4 Comments so far

  1. steve garfield April 18th, 2008 12:17 pm

    Geeky cool.

    Do not try this at home.

  2. danielle April 18th, 2008 2:06 pm

    We should sing cumbaya next time.

  3. RadioGuy April 20th, 2008 12:21 am

    The Jacob’s ladder is cool, but the homemade marshmallows
    caught my attention (I’m a fatty), super duper cool though. Three out of five pots.

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