Primordial Soup Recipe Leaked Online, FDA Issues Urgent 'Do Not Attempt' Warning

A recipe for what astrobiologists believe to be a functional approximation of Earth's primordial soup — the chemical broth from which life first emerged 3.8 billion years ago — has gone viral on social media, prompting the FDA to issue an emergency advisory titled 'DO NOT COOK THIS.' The recipe, originally published in a supplementary appendix of a peer-reviewed paper on abiogenesis, was extracted and posted to TikTok by user @OriginOfLifeChef, whose 47-second video titled 'making life from scratch (real)' has accumulated 23 million views. The video shows the creator combining water, ammonia, methane, hydrogen sulfide, and 'a pinch of formaldehyde' in a large stock pot, then holding a Tesla coil over the mixture while narrating: 'And then you just add energy. Any energy works but lightning is traditional.' 'Every ingredient in this recipe is either toxic, flammable, or both,' said FDA spokesperson Dr. Hannah Weiss. 'Hydrogen sulfide alone can kill you. The fact that it's being presented in a format indistinguishable from a Tasty video is deeply concerning.' The original paper's author, Dr. Leonard Opar of the Miller-Urey Institute, expressed horror at the video's popularity. 'The experiment requires laboratory-grade equipment, a sealed apparatus, and rigorous safety protocols. Not a stock pot and a Tesla coil from Amazon.' Despite the warnings, #PrimordialSoup has trended for three consecutive days. Several copycat videos have appeared, with creators reporting results ranging from 'nothing happened' to 'I think I made a small amount of glycine but I also can't feel my left arm.' The original poster has announced a follow-up video: 'evolving multicellular life in my bathtub (gone wrong).'