1:06Start here / Welcome film
Welcome to QuackPot Food Lab
Meet QuackPot and Spatch, and discover how food connects science, math, history, culture, art, nourishment, and safe cooking.
Meet your lab partners →Watch & wonder
See a little.
Notice a lot.
Start with a warm welcome from QuackPot and Spatch. Then watch a lesson, notice something new, and carry your questions into the kitchen.
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0:43Animated lesson
Where did the crystals go?
Zoom into an illustrative particle model to find out why clear-looking water can still contain dissolved sugar or salt.
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0:44Animated lesson
Mixed… or dissolved?
Follow oil droplets through an animated shake and see why mixing, dissolving and floating answer different questions.
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0:48Animated lesson
Clean hands. Separate tools.
Practice two food-safety habits with QuackPot: wash hands properly and keep raw-food tools separate from ready-to-eat food.
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0:49Animated lesson
Steady board. Tucked fingers.
Watch QuackPot demonstrate a stable setup, a controlled grip, a tucked guiding hand and a deliberate cucumber slice.
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1:00Animated lesson
Honing steel: support, angle, control.
See a supported honing setup and learn how compatibility, a steady angle and slow strokes guide careful edge maintenance.
Watch & wonder →Captions are included in each video, with a full descriptive transcript below the player. The lesson animations illustrate ideas; they are not recordings of physical kitchen trials.
Take a question to the lab.
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Ingredients
Ingredients10 min hands-on · Easy
Shake, separate, repeat
Can a good shake make oil and water stay together?
Let’s investigate02
Ingredients
Ingredients10 min hands-on · A little practice
Where did the crystals go?
Do equal masses of salt and sugar dissolve equally in a little water?
Let’s investigate03
Ingredients
Ingredients15 min hands-on · Easy
The apple investigation
How do water and lemon juice affect the visible browning of apple slices?
Let’s investigate