Why does randomly mixing something lead to something evenly distributed?

Question

For example when using a mixer to make soup, the more you randomly shuffle all the ingredients together the more you get a nice mix of all the ingredients, instead of, for example, the parts of the broccoli on the left part of the pan and the parts of the carrot on the right side of the pan at some random moment you measure

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If you have all the ingredients separate, they won’t be mixed. If you are mixing them by hand or with machinery you are increasing the instances each ingredient will be beside a different ingredient. The more you mix, the more instances you will have. This is increased if you have emulsifying ingredients, but that’s a different thing all together.