These hyper-detailed photos of cooking in progress reveal the hidden beauty of the kitchen

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It's easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of cooking and miss the beauty of it.

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In their joint series "Bubbles," photographers Adrian Mueller and Takako Kuniyuki want to press the pause button. In a kitchen studio, they captured how oils, vinegars, and spices create interesting patterns in ordinary cookware — just zoomed way in.

"By focusing on the details that we usually neither see nor recognize when we cook and eat," the two artists explain in a statement, Mueller and Kuniyiki hope "to show the beauty of small things: the wondrous and serendipitous patterns that occur when different ingredients are mixed together."

Scroll down to see some of the surreal combinations the artists captured in mixing normal household ingredients.

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Vegetable oil, rice vinegar, soy sauce.

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Rice vinegar, olive oil.

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Red wine vinegar, olive oil.

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Champagne, cayenne pepper.

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Ginger ale, whiskey, clear ice.

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Olive oil, chicken fat, balsamic vinegar, salt, peppercorns, white wine. (Mueller credits this as his favorite.)

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Red wine vinegar, apple cider vinegar, and olive oil.

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Olive oil, apple cider vinegar, rice vinegar, and soy sauce.

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Vegetable oil, balsamic vinegar.

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