What is the Experimental Kitchen?
Our new food-safe space will allow inducted members to work on edible projects with domestic, traditional and commercial kitchen tools and processes with technical support. If you have a project idea that you'd like to explore, we'd love to hear about it as we test our new facilities, systems and processed before we open the space.
Project proposals that we'd like to test
If you have a specific research or work project in mind that needs a food-safe lab, or an experimental personal project you’ve always wanted to develop but need some technical support for, we'd love to hear about it. Even if we don’t have the tools or expertise right now, knowing what you might need in the future will help us build the Experimental Kitchen facility of your dreams.
For example, you could be: creating edible objects for an experiment; recreating a historical or fictional foodstuff; investigating the structure, flavour or mouthfeel of a new (food-safe) substance; preparing an animal, vegetable or mineral from scratch; or exploring a particular process, tool or kitchen skill.
Tools and equipment to be inspired by
Our Experimental Kitchen will be home to a wide range of brand-new, state-of-the-art tools, including...
- Vacuum packer/ sealer Commercial convection oven and large combi (steam/convection) oven
- Commercial microwave oven
- Commercial dishwasher
- Lab fridge and freezer
- Blast freezer
- Fitted, portable and precision induction hobs
- Hotplate stirrer
- Dehydrator
- Foldable proofer/fermentation box
- Vacuum packer/ sealer
- Sous vide wand
- XL food processor
- XL blender
- Stick blender/whisks
- Spice grinder
- Ice cream maker
- Stand mixers
- Pasta roller and extruder
- Grain mill
- Mincer and sausage stuffer
- Food mill
- Tortilla press
- Pressure cooker
- Blow torch
- pH probe
...And many more hand tools and utensils.
