Chemistry in the Kitchen

  • January 1957
  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Jan Calábek,

    Starring

    Jiří Šrámek,

    The kitchen is an alchemist’s workshop, and the chef is a master of secret teachings. He commands molecules to bubble, boil, rise, change their state, shape, and colour. This educational film shows that cooking an egg or letting dough rise can be a fascinating chemical and physical process, and that our body is a small laboratory, with its own test tubes, gauges, and instruments.