I am sorta noob at cooking and cooked purely from local and organic veggies and my mate Johannes is a real cook and made one from ''bin food'' we fed people on the streets in the name of science patreon.com/paranda
Love the video! I think it might be interesting for you to find people on the street and convince them to follow you to the dumpster that is behind the store. Seeing their reactions to all the wasted food could be great, and might convince them to approach the stores to change their ways.
Great video again! One way to make the point more loudly is to speak of money as money speaks to people... You can present the same soup 2 times (both identical ingredients and cooked by the same chef) and ask people to guess what is the price difference between them. I imagine the cost of making the soup from dumpster food will be minimal (oil, salt...) and the cost of the organic version will be significantly higer. It is however also important to consider that while not wasting food is important lot of the produce from general supermarkets can be produced using chemicals and questionable methods of farming (one crop, loss of diversity, unfair prices for the farmers ect). So while reducing waste is important it represents a 'plaster' to the problem. If we don't produce waste in the first place and what we do produce is made in harmony with nature we will have much brighter prospects....Good job team Paranda, can't wait for the next one.
Not in my neck of the woods. Most larger stores have compactors, but if you know your trade you can slip in before the compactor gets going for the night. 9/10ths of it is cardboard, and most of it is in plastic bags so it's safe up to that point.
The dumpsters you found the food in , were they specialty stores ? Was that food going to general waste or food waste, to be made into compost etc ? Could you ask the stores to donate to homeless shelters etc ?
Seems like the dumpsters were next to a COOP supermarket (one of Estonia's cooperative market chains), I don't know exactly how Tartu's COOP chain recycles but it seemed to be just in some biowaste containers there. Do note that most Estonians unfortunately do not recycle their rubbish, but the problem isn't as huge as in the USA.
Yo! No, those were usual grocery stores. It would have gone to compost aka those were compost bins and no, one could not donate it as there is just too much healthy risks involved. There are organisations tho that try to save the ok stuff before it ends up in da bin. Btw Sean if u wanna join our discord -discord.gg/e2suFYxpmP
Long as it's clean and safe, doesn't bother me one bit. Hope there's enough for seconds. :Edit: After having thought about it, if you want to repeat the experiment - have Johannes simply make both sets. Use the same ingredients, make the same recipe, and then do a blind test outright. I find it potentially problematic to involve strangers, so maybe pressgang some family members into the experiment instead. You can get away with a lot of things, food poisoning included, for the promise of beer. If the foods are apparently identical, and are made by the same cook, then it should be near impossible to tell them apart which is the goal I would imagine, if you're trying to inform people to open their minds to the idea. But to be honest, I'd have probably picked the one with dinosaur pasta. You're a man of taste.
1) Dumpster Dive 2) Buy identical ingredients of what you found 3) Make 2 meals from same cook without telling him which ingredients are which 4) Conduct experiment with people who don't know the cook or the shopper or the dumpster divers 5) Science, Bitch!
