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About FlowChefs Junior Kitchen
A hands-on cooking experience where curious middle schoolers take real ingredients and turn them into something extraordinary. Each drop-in session has a completely new theme — from fermentation and bread science to global cuisines and plant-based cooking — so every visit is a fresh discovery.
Students work with real techniques, real tools and real food, building kitchen confidence and scientific curiosity at the same time. No prior experience needed — just an appetite to learn and create.
Every session you'll cook, taste and take home what you made.
What to Bring
Comfortable closed-toe shoes
Lab-style movement and hands-on stations are part of every session.
An appetite
Every station has a tasting component — come hungry and ready to try something unexpected.
Curiosity
Bring questions about how food changes, grows, ferments and reacts.
Our Specialties
Every class is built around guided activities that keep students actively engaged.
Students connect with real ingredients while building healthy food confidence.
Activities are designed specifically for Ages 10-14.
Families leave with practical ideas that support food learning beyond class.
Coming Up in the Kitchen
July 11 — Pizza Lab: The Perfect Slice
Roll up your sleeves and become a pizza chef! Students will prepare fresh pizza dough from scratch, stretch and shape their own crust, make homemade pizza sauce, and customize their pizzas with delicious toppings before baking them to perfection.
Along the way, we'll discover the fascinating science behind yeast fermentation and learn how tiny microorganisms create the bubbles that make pizza crust light and fluffy. Students will even take home a fun yeast experiment to continue exploring at home. Students take home: Their homemade pizza and a yeast discovery activity.
July 18 — Pasta Lab: From Flour to Fettuccine
Discover how fresh pasta is made using just a few simple ingredients. Students will mix, knead, roll, and cut their own pasta before preparing a delicious homemade sauce to enjoy.
As we cook, we'll explore how gluten gives pasta its strength and why different flours create different textures. Through simple hands-on demonstrations, students will see how chemistry transforms basic ingredients into fresh pasta. Students take home: Fresh pasta, recipe card, and a flour comparison activity.
July 25 — Dumpling Lab: Fold, Fill & Steam
Master the art of dumpling making! Students will prepare a flavorful vegetable filling, learn professional folding techniques, and steam their own dumplings while discovering cooking traditions from around the world.
We'll also explore how steam cooks food, why vegetables soften, and how moisture changes texture during cooking. Before heading home, each student will start a simple regrowing experiment using scallions to watch new roots and leaves develop throughout the week. Students take home: Homemade dumplings and a regrowing scallion experiment.
Aug 1 — Bread & Pretzel Lab: Baking Like a Pro
Learn the secrets behind bakery-style bread and soft pretzels. Students will mix dough, knead it by hand, shape pretzels, and discover the special baking technique that creates their signature golden-brown crust.
During class, we'll investigate why pretzels brown differently than bread and explore the science behind one of baking's most famous reactions. Students will also receive a colorful food chemistry experiment to continue exploring with everyday kitchen ingredients at home. Students take home: Fresh soft pretzels and a food chemistry discovery activity.
Meet your instructor
Irina is the founder of FlowChefs and the heart behind every class. With a background in biomedicine and mathematics and years of experience as a high school educator, she brings a rare combination of scientific depth and genuine teaching skill to everything she does. A whole food plant-based advocate for over 17 years and a mom of two herself, she created FlowChefs Sprouts because she believes that a child's relationship with real food starts not at the dinner table — but with curiosity, exploration and a little mess. Every class she designs is rooted in child development, nutrition science and one simple belief: healthy food should be the most exciting thing in the room.
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