Our kitchen seminars focus on families with children, high schoolers and undergraduates.

For this audience, we hope to ignite a spark, to get people captivated with science for the first time.

We presented this talk over 10 times at major venues including Xfinity Live! Philadelphia for the Philabundance “Camp Out for Hunger“, the nation’s largest single location food drive. For the 26th year in a row, Philabundance is joining forces with WMMR’s Preston & Steve to CAN hunger for good and to provide healthy meals to communities facing food insecurity in the Southeastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey regions during the holiday season.

In this Special Issue, we celebrate the connection between the physics of fluids, food science, and education. We received over 30 articles concerning all types of kitchen flows, from simple to complex, from small to large scale. They include research articles, short reviews, educational articles, methods papers, and expert tutorials. These works highlight exciting new opportunities in this effervescently growing branch of science. Some examples are shown below.

We organized a special “Culinary Fluid Mechanics” outreach workshop at the 76th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics in Washington DC, from 19-21 November 2023. We worked in the great exhibit hall, for more than 3500 people. We showed them how to make their own lava lamp using only simple kitchen ingredients. Here is the recipe: In a small container, first add a thin layer of baking soda. Then add olive oil, until about 50% of the container. Finally, add a few droplets of vinegar mixed with food colour.  Do not close the lid!