Founded by Vayu Hill-Maini more than a decade ago, STEAMchefs is an organization that uses cooking to communicate scientific skills and methods to youth. Food is a universal language with deep personal and cultural significance, and within each family recipe or food experience hides a wealth of scientific information; baking bread tells us about respiration and breathing, making kimchi unveils fundamental principles in microbiology, and caramelizing onions tells us about catalysis and kinetics. STEAMchefs aims to harness this unique property of food to foster engaging experiences with science from an early age and remove barriers to participation in STEM. The organization runs outreach programs, hands-on workshops for teachers, and public seminars. The work is based on its open-access hands-on curriculum, which is adapted to the Next-Generation Science Standards, freely available through the website, and is used by thousands of educators worldwide, including low-resource settings where experimental science education has traditionally not been available. We are deeply involved in STEAMchefs as a lab through outreach and curriculum development.  Check out some of our lessons the videos, made with collaborators at Harvard University.