Cook something lovely.
Easy recipes, cooking videos and good kitchen gear for first-timers and anyone ready to cook with more confidence.
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Pick what sounds good and we will show you recipes that match. No fancy skills needed.
Recipes
Every recipe lists what you need, step by step, with a tick box for each ingredient.
Cooking videos
Short, friendly lessons you can follow with the pan in front of you. The first episodes are on their way.
Your first tomato sauce
Coming soonCutting a watermelon safely
Coming soonThe Cooklife shop
Cookbooks to learn from, and kid-sized pots, pans and tools made for small hands. Tap any item to read more.
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Cookbooks
Little Chef pots, pans and tools
Cooklife started with Anika S.
Cooklife is the brainchild of Anika S., who came up with the concept and drew the first sketch of the name.
Anika's first films were made at school. In Prep, at age 5, she entered a school science video competition and won first prize.
Now she is building Cooklife to help other children learn to cook and love food. She wants it to feel like a summer holiday: bright, colourful and welcoming, whether you have never cooked before or want to get better at it.
First prize, Prep science video competition
Anika's Science Kitchen
Anika's winning film. She turned noodles purple using boiled purple cabbage, then squeezed lemon juice over them and watched them change to pink. She called them unicorn noodles.
The science: Purple cabbage contains anthocyanins, natural pigments that change colour depending on how acidic something is. Lemon juice is an acid, so it turns the purple pink.