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Fact-based Kitchen Science
Plain water can bubble away for an hour and stay politely in its pot, but drop in some pasta and a white foam climbs the sides, because starch turns ordinary bubbles into a stretchy blanket.
Fact-based Cosmic Questions
An onion sitting on the counter is perfectly harmless, but the moment a knife goes in it starts building a tiny chemical weapon aimed straight at your eyes.
Fiction Made-Up Words
(noun) The slow one-way drift of mugs out of the kitchen into every other room of the house, noticed only when the cupboard is empty and the sink is not.
Fiction Made-Up Words
(n.) The faith that the unlabelled container at the back of the freezer contains something good, sustained by never opening it.
Fiction Useless Inventions
A toaster that marks the completion of your toast with a short brass fanfare, played approximately three minutes after the toast is done.
Fiction Made-Up Words
(n.) The third reheating of a drink you have no real intention of finishing.
Fiction Made-Up Words
(v.) To stand in front of an open fridge, lit by its light, having forgotten what you wanted.
Fact-based Cosmic Questions
An ordinary spoon keeps its shape at any temperature a kitchen can reach, but some metals can be bent out of shape and then, with a little warmth, remember exactly what they were.