Hot Pot Tools

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Personality Quiz

Answer 4 questions and discover your ideal hot pot style, recommended ingredients and the best broths for your taste profile.

Take the Quiz

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Cost Calculator

Home vs restaurant, side by side: see what a hot pot night really costs and how fast the equipment pays for itself.

Do the Math

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Diet Checker

Gluten-free, vegetarian, halal or allergies? See what's safe in a full hot pot, the hidden traps (beef tallow! wheat soy sauce!) and exact swaps.

Check My Diet

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Party Planner

Enter guests, budget and broth style — get a complete shopping list with quantities, cost estimate and step-by-step prep timeline. Print-ready.

Plan My Party

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Hot Pot Builder

Tell us your party size, broth preference and dietary needs — get a complete shopping list with quantities and product recommendations.

Build My List

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Starter Kit Builder

Pick a budget and answer two questions — get a complete equipment kit with the 7-item sauce pantry, every piece explained and priced.

Build My Kit

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Fridge Raid

Tick what's already in your fridge and get an instant hot pot plan: readiness score, best broth, what's worth buying and your cooking order.

Raid My Fridge

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Substitute Finder

Can't find maodu, huanghou or shrimp paste? Tested substitutes for 18 hard-to-source ingredients — with cook-time fixes.

Find Substitutes

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Hot Pot Timer

Tap the ingredients in your pot and get precise countdowns — even six at once. Beeps when the maodu is perfect.

Start Timing

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Sauce Builder

Mix a classic dipping sauce in seconds: pick a base, season, kick and fresh — with the 5 proven restaurant formulas one tap away.

Build My Sauce

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Leftover Coach

Can you reuse that broth? A straight food-safety verdict on your leftovers — plus the six best next-day recipes for every broth type.

Save My Broth

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Calorie Checker

Tick what you actually ate and get the honest number — including the dipping sauce that quietly out-eats your beef.

Count My Night

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Ingredient Decoder

Enter any Chinese hot pot ingredient — get a full breakdown: English name, flavor, texture, cooking time and best broths. Works with Chinese characters, pinyin or English.

Try the Decoder

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Can I Hot Pot It?

Find out if any food — traditional or wildly experimental — can go in a hot pot. Traditional? Modern? Best avoided? Get the verdict instantly.

Find Out Now

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Menu Decoder

Paste a whole Chinese menu — every line decoded with English names, cooking times and what to order first.

Decode My Menu

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Animal Part Explorer

Every hot pot protein mapped to its exact anatomical origin — what part of the animal maodu, huanghou and duck intestine actually are, with cook times and safety temps.

Explore the Anatomy

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MaLa Meter

Rate your tolerance for La (chili heat) and Ma (Sichuan numbing) separately — based on Chinese food standards. Get matched broths and tips.

Try MaLa Meter

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Hot Pot Passport

Stamp every ingredient you've dared to try. Earn XP, unlock adventure badges and rise from Hot Pot Curious to Hot Pot Legend — all saved in your browser.

Get My Passport

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Random Hot Pot

Can't decide? Spin the pot — get a random complete hot pot combo with broth, proteins, veggies, noodle and sauce, with cooking order.

Spin the Pot

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Recipe Parser

Paste any hot pot recipe in Chinese or English — AI extracts a clean ingredient list, quantities, cook times and method.

Parse a Recipe

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Meal Planner

Plan hot pot meals for the week. Drag ingredients to each day, get a consolidated shopping list. Saves locally.

Plan My Week

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Broth Anatomy

Every layer of an authentic Chongqing mala broth decoded: beef tallow, doubanjiang, Sichuan pepper, dried chillies and 9 more components, with standards references.

See the Layers

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Standards Lab

Chinese national and Chongqing local hot pot standards in plain English: mala levels, ingredient grades, tallow quality and maodu classification.

Open the Lab