#90 How to make a more sustainable kitchen? 

For the geeks> find more data and spreadsheets here: community.projectkamp.com/research/how-can-we-be-more-sustainable-in-the-kitchen-

I mean, lets give a huge thumb up for that self sustaining farm and the guy that running it. Can't get better food than that.

If your fridge gets mold inside you should 1) check door joints, if they are pierced or damaged replace it cuz it will be worse later. Check if door close correctly too 2) empty it from food and wash the whole thing with white vinegar. Dry it clean after with a towel. 3) Check water evacuation, if there is something in it, water from condensation can't go out so it stays inside and you'll get mold. Hope it helps

A pressure cooker in the kitchen might help to conserve energy cooking vegetables like potatoes or chickpeas.

One thing you could do to help increase your self-reliance is at the end of each season, before everyone departs for the winter, would be to have a mass-planting of potatoes/other root vegetables and then simply leave them to grow over winter to harvest in the spring when people return. Other than the planting/harvesting, there wouldn't be a lot of work involved.

You should build a storage cellar into the ground...for many things, like potatoes, carots and so on...

You guys could TOTALLY have a spin-off cooking channel for people who want to learn how to cook off-grid and more sustainably. :) also, try rice "coffee"!

You guys could start a whole secondary channel based on food prep. It’s fascinating and beautiful.

Have you considered using the lower part of the small "Sketchy Ruin" you finished last year as a 'root cellar"? This way you have a naturally cooler space to store potatoes, other vegetables, fruits, etc.

Charcoal absorbs moisture and removes odors, so try putting a few pieces of charcoal in the refrigerator and changing them regularly.

Those food scraps could feed a biogas digester, which would capture both the gas and provide fertiliser, the bacteria in the compost heap will outgas those hydrocarbons into the air, which is less evironmentally friendly then burning them, please revisit this option in the future.

two things. why not make a separate laundry area to free up space in the kitchen? you have space, access to water and compost why not grow more of your own veg? garlic, onions and beans are easy to grow.

i live in a city in the USA with 750k people. and we cannot find the supplies you have there without spending HUGE amounts of money. that big meal probably cost less than a simple meal for my family of 4 in Nebraska. it is absolutely ridiculous how wasteful the US is. i hate it. if my family's medical issues didn't keep us anchored where we are, near a massive hospital, we would be joining you at the Kamp, and bringing my expertise and training for building and maintaining the kamp! love the work you folks are doing, absolutely fantastic work!

I never get a hug from my local supermarket.

Bees for honey- as a sweetener and also for the pollinators. Chickens on deep bedding. You can feed them your waste veg, they will also help with the flies, and help with composting. Plus’s you get eggs!

For food safety, I suggest setting up all buffet/serving lines OUTSIDE the container. Inviting every community member to walk through the food prep space 3 times a day is poor sanitation practice. I suggest that the interior of the kitchen container be made off limits to all but those directly involved in food prep; unless specifically invited to enter. The only equipment required is a table.

Repurpose the 3 phase oven. Step 1) Take the 3 phase oven to a big city restaurant supply house and trade it for additional restaurant equipment (square stainless steel pans with SS lids) that will be useful in the Project Kamp kitchen. You will not produce 3 phase power from a solar energy system because it is unnecessary. Step 2) Build a second wood or charcoal fired oven immediately outside the kitchen. Begin to work the wood fired oven into the meal preparation scheme regularly to reduce your reliance on bottled gas. Step 3) Make certain the double door refrigerator is on a flat platform that is level. Pouring a cement slab to set it on would be worthwhile. Once the case is level and plumb, check all gaskets for fit and clean or repair if necessary. Step 4) Use covered stainless steel pans for all leafy produce to reduce humidity. Check for drain holes; Blow them out with compressed air, followed by a 10% vinegar flush and sterile water rinse. 5) Make certain all interior fans are clean, lubricated, sanitized and operating properly. 6) Chemically clean the interior cooling plates to improve performance and eliminate mold and mildew spores. 😊

I'm a CSA farmer in Canada and I found this super interesting, thanks so much for covering this topic

For storing more food in bulk so you don't have to drive as much: underground refrigerator, underground is already cooler and great insulator.

Of all the subjects covered here the inter cropping was the bit that blew me away, such a great way of farming. What a 1st glance looked like a disaster (I have worked on conventional farms), was a wow moment for me, to see all that produce growing so well in and amongst their neighbours. it really made me think how conditioned i am to expect crops to be grown in isolation. I am a sheep, clearly.

A few other ideas come to mind: 1) Buy a Cast Iron outdoor kitchen and use firewood for cooking 2) Alternately u can build the similar type kitchen from bricks and clay 3) Building Steam Room/Sauna might be cool 4) Build a water heating system which will be using your endless firewood 5) Put a few painted in black water barrels on your container top and use sun power to warmup water during hot days for showers/general use

Not in Portugal proper, but there is a coffee plantation on São Jorge island in the Azores (the only coffee plantation in Europe). It is owned by the Nunes family who runs a small cafe as well. Depending on where your coffee is sourced from now, this may be closer and may potentially lower your emissions? Not sure but might be worth researching! Keep up the great work.

The fridge will dehydrate any open food, that moisture will be attracted to the evaporator. Seal the individual food in containers.

One of the things you can do is pickle, ferment and salt the fresh produce you get in summer so that it lasts to the next season. It’s a great way of increasing sustainability for year round consumption

Buying local is great. Living in Germany, most of my shopping is based upon seasonal foods and going to the various weekly markets. However, I have some questions about your sustainable cooking once the vegetables have been purchased. - What do you do with the vegetable scraps? I did not see any vegetable broths being made in the video. After making broths (which make healthier rice and couscous dishes), the rest of the vegetable remains can then be composed. Oh, they compost faster after being cooked. - What do you do with the coffee grinds? That is great for the compost. - If you have a fire at night, do you make coffee the night before on the coals (maybe in the pizza oven) and people can drink cold coffee for breakfast or a mid-day break? That would reduce the use of the batteries or propane. - Have you considered making sun coffee or sun tea to utilize the power of the sun? That would also reduce the use of the batteries or propane. - have you considered using Chicory which is a locally grown plant land therefore requires less CO2 emissions (i.e. petrochemicals for transport) to Portugal?

I love spending my Monday’s watching project kamp updates

I have a couple of suggestions. You could use the new storage space to store pickled produce and homemade preserves/ marmalades to help winter cooking keep its variety. Also The fridge being moist, you could try using natural dehumidifiers such as charcoal in a tray in the fridge. Also be mindful when putting wet/ washed salads into the fridge.

You make me feel like I make a difference by watching when you said us watching are supporting your local farmers. That's the smallest thing I can do and it still helps

Cherish the plants that randomly pop up from the compost self-propagating themselves. That means those seeds are the strongest and will give the most selfsustainable plants

Hey guys, you might consider a worms tank for veggie waste too! They do an incredible job for free producing super soil and worm tea for your garden!

Fortunately, i watched this after lunch, otherwise i probably would have gone crazy 😂

Rosemary need more water. Bury a lidded unglased terracotta pot and fill it with water and the water percolate to the Rosemary. The lid keep evaporation to a minimum. From a happy lurker.. ❤😂❤

My suggestion is to please not mix detergent and non food stuff within your food storage. Although labeled people could get them mixed-up. Also, Purchasing large instant pots, crowd sized rice cooker, etc would help with ease in food preparation.

I absolutely love this channel. The videos are getting more and more interesting.

Your fridge is probably too small 😢. Try to limit opening the door Check the drain And make ventilation for the back of the fridge with a fan (eg. a computer fan or USB fan, and make sure to get the air to the outside when it has passed the radiator. Check the gasket on the doors

I found the social interaction with the local elder folks very inspirational. This is how it should be - for now folks are interconnected in living there and connected to these young folks building a new way of living and managing resources. Fantastic project!

Shout out to the German cooks-- as a German myself!

I vaguely recall my grandmother keeping a shallow saucer of white vinegar in her fridge for mould...and sometimes citrus peels

If there is dandelion on the land, the roasted roots can be used as a coffee substitute or supplement

This was really nice to watch! I would love to have more of this into my life. Fresh food, and being able to know were it came from. I buy my groceries in a supermarket, and sometimes on a farmers market in the city. I always have to deal with a lot of plastics. A few years ago I went for a silent retreat in Spain for a week. There was this wonderfull vegan cook, a Spanish woman, who ordered a ton of vegetables and chopped everything up, and used litterally everything during that week. I had the best food ever in that week. I cannot reproduce that, but it is really an inspiration.

A fridge should always dehumidify itself trough it cooling. If yours doesn’t do that maybe it is not cool itself enough. This could be because the compressor is getting weak, the charge of refrigerant is getting low or it isn’t getting enough airflow to the back of it heat exchanger. Maybe check for these things

Very great to see how you guys doing with the cooking! Here some Ideas that came up in my mind: When it comes to reducing co2 emmisions, try to build a sun cooker to save gas. there are different moddels, the parabolig one I tryed before from a kit and it worked very good (+300°C) and not that big of a diameter, can also be bourght Try to ferment what is left or make some kind of broth out of it (dry or cooked as paste), I saw you are using Lemmons, if they are organic (i think so) you can very simple ferment the emtpy halfs, in 2% salt water and use them in the cooking process again, very yumy. If you find time the morning cooked oat flakes can also soak over night and need no gas to get cooked. The coffe topic shows that you could try to use local "coffe" other roasted goods that do not travel and use that much reccources. very subjective and sensetive i think and a great topic to reflect on what are we willing to abond and change our habits for positive climat impacts. I think depending on how far you have to go with the truck you could think to upgrade your solar in the future and make the truck an electric one working as a second batterie / car, but maybe its then just more efficent to farm by your selfs.. numbers needs to be checked there. Hope this input can help you ;) Kepp the good work up!

For the coffee, try to mix it with the same amount of coffee substitute from grains and chicory and prepare it as usual. You don't even taste that it is not pure coffee.

Greetings from Germany to the German Chef´s. Sehr sympathisch ihr beiden ;)

Great work amazing people and beautiful concepts.... As a chef who worked with Lentil As Anything Melbourne Australia for 7 years. who has lived on and off grid since the 80's.... I have many suggestions.... A journal/ recipe / what to do today book so new people can see what previous people in the kitchen did... Alfa is a beautiful seed could grow and eat sprouts every day, a few containers with different age sprouts, go with most meals to add to the salad component... Could do a mimosa tree powered flat grill to slow cook food, like pressure cooker pot that is put on the flat grill in the cool summer morning and ready for dinner, just add some dried mimosa tree logs throughout the day to keep temp up and rice is ready for dinner... or root veggie mash , or curry, or dahl, and morning chia tea... and if starting in the morning can toast bread... cook the porridge, or pancake or savory mushrooms/ tomato / spinach( a garden leaves- spinach, chard, rocket, silverbeet equivalent) on toast or Flat bread(flour and water cooked on flat grill) also maybe a heat exchanger to store hot water from the fire.... hope this helps.. :)

If you haven't already tried this, a bowl of baking soda in the fridge should help reduce moisture as well as odors in the fridge. Once the baking soda has completely hardened you would replace it with a new amount. You should not use that hardened baking soda for cooking or baking.

I'd like to see you guys use mimosa charcoal as your cooking fuel.

Best way i think to deal with mould is 1. remove and throw away any mouldy food, then 2. take out everything from fridge, including emptying all shelves etc.. then 3. Use distilled white wine vinegar and spray ALL surfaces inside the fridge, including all shelves and anything where mould could potentially get in behind (if there is a panel that can be un-screwed, then open and spray it down). Make sure you are extra careful to cover all areas. Let everything sit for a few minutes, then scrub with a rag and wipe clean. Repeat for as many times as you feel is needed.

Hi Portugal camp. I saw you grow fruit trees. It's great. Questions: 1. Do you have two different avocado trees that will pollinate each other? Or one tree that sprinkles pollen to itself? 2. Is it possible to give more time to read the English subtitles when you add them on different images? Unfortunately, I read English slowly and this will help me a lot. Thank you very much. 3. Idea for saving space in the kitchen - all containers over 1 liter/kilo will be in the renovated container and in the kitchen there will be containers up to 1 liter/kilo that are filled as needed. 4. The mold problem can be solved by better ventilation.

what about a underground cool storage space for the summer

Check if the rubbers on the fridge are still good. Nice episode guys!

You could use a Wonderbag as a passive slow cooker to save on cooking gas. Especially great for cooking dry beans, chickpeas and stews. Very useful in winter when less sun (as opposed to solar oven).

Best video ever! You guys could solve your carbon footprint by gardening your vegetable garden, with coffee too. You have all the means. A permaculture design project for your land would be awesome!

for mold/moist in the fridge, I know of people that put small bags of cat-litter in the car to keep the air dry (against steamed-up windows) Maybe that some moist-absorbing substance (like cat litter) helps for the fridge too.

"sustainable" is often a silly word. Being economical is being ecological. Look at every plant and animal around you- they aren't trying to restrict themselves. They are trying to be as successful as possible. They are trying to gather as many resources as they can as efficiently as possible. Of course be aware of the environment around you, but don't unnecessarily restrict your actions based on social movements that are often promoted by people who think humans are evil and a scourge on the earth.

To reduce the coffee impacts, explore adding chicory to the blend to reduce the amount of coffee beans used. A blend provides a transition and you can possibly do all chicory in the future. Chickory uses less water and has a smaller carbon footprint than coffee and has some health benefits.. It is grown commercially in parts of Europe so the travel/import related part of the CO2 calculations should be lower. If someone REALLY wants coffee then that can be a personal purchase and use similar to alcohol or cigarettes.

Meat can be sustainable and "green". A cow can be fed on all the green parts of plants that humans can't/won't eat - soybean hulls as an example. The cow's waste can be left where it is to fertilize the land, or collected and added to compost. Cows also require less water per kg of protein than almond trees. Pigs and chickens can be fed table scraps, and can forage for their own food (insects, leaves). Although they might need grain supplementation if you have too many. And there's always tilapia that can be raised as a part of an aquaponics system. If anybody doubts the ability of meat farms to be carbon neutral - or even generate carbon credits - a quick google search will find many many sustainable green farms.

Your food looks soooo delicious. A spin-off with those two chefs would be great. Nice to see how you can get most of your food from nearby stores and farms. Sustainability is key.

Is it normal there to have a washing machine for dirty clothes in the kitchen? I'd make a seperate building (laundry facility) for that and use the grey water to water your garden.

I found this weeks one to be very informative. Enjoyed seeing the cooking. Happy faces of everyone there to eat. 😊😊😊😊

Also don't forget...WOOL. Sheeps wool. In the Netherlands, a lot of farmers can't get rid of their wool. Wool can be used as (long term) mulch and compost. We use wool in our veggie gardens to keep the soil moist, in compost (it breaks down slowely), it's fire resistent as well, a good insulator and one can also spin threads from it. And weaving, for kitchen cloths etc. VERY sustainable product. If you're able to, you can easily turn wool into compost pellets too.

The food looks amazing.

Thanks for another exciting episode. It is so interesting to follow Project Kamp as you want to develop and evolve in so many different areas. You are open to new ideas and want to find new and sustainable ways together as a community. Truly something to be inspired by. Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪 😀

what a great episode was this one. Very interesting de combination of food preparation and the way of monitoring the CO2 footprint. Keep going!

Coconut milk powder is available to buy in bulk. It is a delicious way to add "creamy" dairy alternative without the CO2 cans /emissions problem. I use coconut and tomato powder a lot in my kitchen mostly for the quick convenience it provides without cans

Having your own vegetable patch is definetely a must. Also I would have a chicken coop with a laying hens it definetely will help eating all the leftovers and not doing all this compost.

I love how shove comes to push 😂

further to my previous comment a few weeks back, Timo is a natural public speaker. good work

I loved this ep! As a foodie and avid gardener its great to see you explore food security and sustainability. I definitely suggest growing more food with your land and making more compost with the immense clippings, wood chips and food waste you have. Also is there a reason why you’re strictly vegan in cooking? Chooks are a great permaculture edition to any homestead providing food through eggs and manure for growing more food. Maybe also explore more canning/preserving options for food to enable you to do less trips for food? Keep up the fab work🎉

The moisture in your fridge is coming from all the fresh produce in there. To absorb it you can make a moisture trap out of silica gel that you can buy in bulk as cat litter in a pet store cheaply. This can then be reused indefinitely by drying it out ether in an oven or probably in direct hot sun or maybe a small solar oven. Im in Ireland so I don't have any experience of direct hot sun to try that ;)

Need more protein in the meal. Didn't see a big pot of legumes.

Regarding the fridge; salt is naturally hydrophilic so it will absorb moisture from the air. It could also be sun dried for reuse. Lacto-fermentation could be used to preserve greens when they start to wilt. The majority of fresh produce can be easily pickled with vinegar. Surplus fruit can easily be made into chutney or vinegar. You can make your own vinegar with fruit on the turn with water and a 'mother of vinegar'. Vegan Kefir can made with most vegan milk alternatives.

I would sugest you guys increase your food preservation. This would allow you to buy more food in season and reduce the amount of trips to buy food, specially when there is less produce available. To increase your food preserving: - have you considered a freezer? - canning is a good option as well as fermenting. - sun drying fruits and vegetables. If you have a big cheese consumption maybe consider making the cheese buying the milk from local producers or even having goats or sheeps in the kamp. Like many people have sugested having chickens and increasing your vegetable garden would also help.

Baking soda is a great way to absorb moisture. Put some in a glass jar or a small bowl and keep the top off. Another option is uncooked rice but that might not be the best use :)

Super interesting! Thanks for sharing the insights into your cooking routines!

Amazing video guys its great to see all these people and business's helping with kamp.

You have done very well preparing food for 25 in such confining areas. You need to expand preparation, cooking, washup. Also will have to create a serving area. Less foot traffic in immediate kitchen. Fridge mold: Check door seals, door closed, water drain line to tray, clean and vacuum fridge fan, compressor, evaporator coils, check manufacturer's space clearances, measure humidity levels in kitchen and if high a dehumidifier may be required. Thereis alot crammed into a small space with a lot of foot traffic. Additional room air circulation may be needed to reduce humidity and cooling. Possibly adding intake/exhaust fans.

A deck outside the kitchen container door (next to the burners) with a sunshade and a workbench could add a lot of workspace easily.

Looks sooooo delicious what you guys are eating everday. Good on ya!

Project Camp cookbook wanted! :) loved this episode

Thank you so much for making this video! I really love that you have already put so much work into this part of Kamp and keep track of all this data. You should be proud of your food consumption impact and the hard work you put in to make it happen! Really inspiring to see that you chose to work with local (sustainable/regenerative) partners instead of trying to do everything yourself. I am curious to learn what will happen next, maybe a collab with Nuno on the land?

Would love to see the hydrological impact and land usage for the food supply on later episodes of the sustainable kitchen. Like you guys have shown Nunos' farm does it extremely well keeping multiple crops in the same area. But Industrial farming (even if its "Bio") can have many different impacts, I.E. not every grain type yields the same or has the same agroecological impact.

For cooking potatoes you could use a pressure cooker. Saves a lot of fuel

Are you guys hope you guys are having a good afternoon hope you guys get everything straightened out you should build little houses for that way people don't have any place to sleep they still can sleep in the house or I guess I don't know like a little shed or something all right God bless you guys

Hi Thats me just watched all your videos. They were very enjoyable and I would like to thank you all for making them and wish you all the best for the coming years doing this project. I will be waiting patiently every week for your next update. Thankyou

Man, I would love to see you guys taking a challenge to build hydroponics 😊😊😊

Muito interessante! É fantástico poderem usufruir da horta dos vizinhos e comprar tanta coisa directamente ao produtor!

This episode was so good. Thank you. I love watching how you all live, do everyday things, how you fix things. Theres always something to learn. The food though.. goodness you all eat so healthy congratulations

I got to be honest, i'm not a vegetarian, but this food looks amazing!!! soooo yummy

There’s no wonder you needed an extra Latrine 😂😂😂😂😂

hey guys! love your videos good job !! i saw you cooking rice in a pot ! (guess with gas ) did you ever consider getting a rice cooker running on eletricity ? i live in japan and let me tell you rice has never been tasting better ! they have big ones too for cooking up big batches !! greetings and keep it up !

24:00 those potatoes look soooo good.

Man I love this it's so beautiful to see we have hope for human kind ❤

I love this tipe of content❤❤❤

keep up the good work😁

The food looks delicious! Bravo chefs!

This was a very nice episode. Thank you. I felt the you must have felt in presenting and making it.

I don't know the exact numbers but I feel like you could use some more proteins. The cheapest solution that comes to my mind could be buying some chickens to have some eggs. Also a real cheap end fast growing and easy to harvest product are mushrooms, the coffee wastes could be reused as soil for a mushroom farm.

Careful with those mint plants, they can spread over others super quickly.

Great video. One thing that struck me was having the washing machine in the kitchen area. Perhaps a small out building (wood structure or small container) next to the kitchen would free up space in the kitchen and separate the activities (including bags of dirty clothes) of cooking and clothes washing.