Physics and Chemistry

Being that I'm a Chemical Engineering major, and in a few short weeks will officially be a Chemical Engineer, I thought I had a pretty solid understanding of physics and chemistry.  However I recently discovered an anomaly in which mixing shredded potatoes and flour creates a very sticky and moist mixture.  I feel as though it is important to note that an important step in this process was drying the shredded potatoes.  So imagine my surprise when the fairly dry mixture of flour and potato slowly became thicker, liquidier, and stickier as I added more flour.  That's right, adding flour to a dry mixture made it liquidy and sticky.  I have absolutely no explanation as to why such a ridiculous thing would happen, yet there I was, may hands getting more and more covered in a gooey potato/flour mixture.  Absolutely fascinating.  It seems as though the lesson to glean from this, if there is in fact a lesson to be learned, is that sometimes our best understanding of things is inadequate to explain some of the little splendors of life.  However after eating the delicious potato dumplings that were made from this mixture I sure am glad that they exist.