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Kitchen Christianity: Taste and See

  • Writer: Maralee Allen
    Maralee Allen
  • Aug 5
  • 2 min read

Psalm 34:8 invites us to,


“Taste and see that the Lord is good!”

The next time you’re mixing up some cookies with your kids, try a little ingredients taste-test.


Baking ingredients including a tub of sugar, salt, flour, two eggs and chocolate chips.

Sprinkle a little salt on the counter. Put a little sugar beside the salt.


Say: Is it easy to tell the difference between salt and sugar just by looking at it?


Baking ingredients of salt and sugar in a small pile on a kitchen counter.

Get out a magnifying glass or zoom in with your cell phone’s camera and investigate the difference.


Say: If you don’t look very carefully, you could get them mixed up, but there’s no way to mix them up if you taste them!


Baking ingredients of salt and sugar in a small pile on a kitchen counter. A magnifying glass looks over the small piles.

Now it’s time for the taste test. With a wet finger, they can touch the salt sprinkles and then taste them. Then they can try the sugar sprinkles. I call it a “dip-‘n-lick.”


Baking ingredients of salt and sugar in a small pile on a kitchen counter. A finger has been dipped into each pile.

Say: Sugar is sweet and delicious and salt is… salty!


Sometimes people act salty. What does that mean?


It means they get annoyed or upset over something small or something they don’t like. They want things to go exactly their own way.


Ask if they think acting salty makes things better or worse. Does acting salty make people feel happy or unhappy?


(You might even remind them of a time when they acted salty.)


  • Being Salty
  • Being Sweet

Now ask them which they would like to eat more of – salt or sugar? What if people acted sweet, like sugar? Would saying and doing sweet things make people feel happy or sad?


Baking ingredients of salt and sugar in a small pile on a kitchen counter. A happy face is drawn into the sugar while a sad face is drawn into the salt.

Say: The Bible says that everything God says is sweet like honey (or sugar).


How sweet is the taste of your instructions - sweeter even than honey!

Psalm 199:103 (GNT)


God’s words bring smiles, just like a sweet treat! When we listen to God, we can share His sweetness with others.


Baking ingredients of salt and sugar in a small pile on a kitchen counter. A happy face is drawn into the sugar while a sad face is drawn into the salt.
My Daughter's First Ice Cream Cone

A Fun Addition for Older Kids:


Talk about some of the people in the Bible who acted salty. Here are some examples:


  • King Saul acted salty when his son, Jonathan, ate some honey during the fight with the Philistines.


  • Cain acted salty when God asked him where his brother Abel was.


  • Esau acted salty when his brother, Jacob, wouldn’t give him some of the food he was cooking.


  • Joseph’s older brothers acted salty when their dad gave Joseph a special coat.


  • Pharaoh acted salty when Moses asked him to let the Israelites go.


Discuss how their salty attitudes made things worse.

 

Here’s Another Idea:


Choose other flavours and decide what Bible characters they match with. For example:


  • Maybe hot sauce reminds you of Sampson.

  • Maybe lemon juice reminds you of Caiaphas.

  • Maybe butterscotch reminds you of Tabitha.

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