About The App

The Kitchen Adventure’s (developed by Climate Smart Elephant) mission is to create quality experiences around cooking while inviting users to include new, healthier and more sustainable recipes in their everyday diets.

The app is funded by the European Union via the FOODITY programme.

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    Create fun experiences. Cooking is not a chore – we gamified it for you!

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    Sneaking more veggies into your and your family’s diet step-by-step. Our amazing chefs will show you that veggies and plant-based meals can be super tasty – and also, easy to make.

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    Support you in your meal planning. Less is more, that is why we do not overwhelm you with thousands of recipes at once. You only have to choose from six each day, making your life easier.

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    Tailor your diet to your taste and needs. Our recommendation algorithm will offer you recipes that you will most probably like – based on your previous choices.

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    AI-helper (aka Chef Mandula). Using AI to create our recipes is out of question as when it comes to tasty foods, we rather work with professional chefs. However, when it comes to explaining steps and ingredients, our AI-helper comes handy.

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    Secure data management. Food choices and preferences and personal data are sensitive information. Therefore we deploy up-to-date data sovereignty principles and secure data collection backed up by DataU and FOODITY

Who Is Chef Mandula?

Chef Mandula (named after one of our team member’s rescued hedgehog)  is here to help you on your culinary adventure, at each step on your way! Whether you need a more detailed explanation on a cooking step or a technique or you don’t have something at home and need advice on a substitute ingredient, she is here to help you. Mandula is designed to make the cooking experience simpler, and more enjoyable. You can ask her anything cooking and food related and he will gladly provide you information. Here are some examples of her capabilities, try her, just ask anything as if she was your cooking partner!

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  • Simplified Explanations: Mandula can offer simplified, easy-to-understand explanations about why certain cooking steps are needed, which helps in educating children about cooking processes in a fun way.

  • Tips for Success: Provide tips to ensure success, such as the best type of oil to use for frying or how to tell when meat is perfectly cooked, tailored to the recipe at hand.

  • Substitution Suggestions: Recommends substitutes for missing ingredients, helping users adapt recipes on the fly.

  • Leftover Optimization: Suggests creative ways to use leftovers, reducing food waste and providing new meal ideas.

  • Origin and Sustainability: Provide information on the origin of ingredients, their environmental impact, and suggest sustainable alternatives if available

  • Fun facts about food: You can ask her to tell you a fun fact about an ingredient, so you can broaden your knowledge

  • and many more…

The Kitchen Adventure In Schools

We are bringing cooking adventures to families in 10 EU-countries, educating about sustainable, healthy and plant-based foods.

Climate Smart Elephant, the agency that created this app is dedicated to education and bringing cooking skills to families EU-wide. That is why besides the cooking app (funded by FOODITY), the team also leads a project with the same name (funded by EIT Food), targeting teachers, parents and school children.

The Kitchen Adventure aims to achieve lasting change in the public’s dietary habits to improve consumer health and facilitate a transition to a more sustainable EU food system. This will be achieved by engaging the target groups (students aged 10-12, 13-15 and 16-18 with their parents) in cooking activities in their own homes with sustainable plant-based recipes in focus, instructed by a chef live through Zoom.

Cooking sessions also include tailor-made, topic-related educational infotainment bits. To reinforce learning, the participants’ schools will also be involved to implement classroom lessons using lesson plans we provide about the topic. Proven effective in stage 1, The Kitchen Adventure will be scaled up to 4 EU countries (BG, ES, HU, PL) in 2024. In addition, to maximize public engagement, in cooperation with food chains, a hackathon-format “Cookathlon” will be will be piloted in 2025 (HU) and implemented in 2026 in 10 countries (AT, BG, ES, HU, IR, IT, LT, NL, PL, PT). The interventions aim to reverse the steep decline in home cooking that strongly correlates with decreasing dietary health effects and unsustainable eating habits. For all activities, thorough impact assessment will be conducted.

The Kitchen Adventure distinguishes itself by its unique focus on lasting behaviour change with its online supported offline activity model, enabling target groups to acquire cooking skills experientially in their own kitchen, where behaviour change needs to occur, reframing cooking as an enjoyable familial or peer leisure-time activity rather than a chore, making reengagement in cooking more attractive, showing that healthy and sustainable (plant-based) food can be palatable, thereby instilling desire for more, engaging parents, who, being the gatekeepers for the family’s dietary habits, are crucial to be involved, and its multipronged engagement strategy, engaging the target groups in both of their most influential environments (home and school). Together, these 5 tenets create a unique compound effect for lasting behaviour change, while the positive experience facilitates word of mouth dissemination by participants (as shown in stage 1 implementation).

The Kitchen Adventure expects facilitating a gradual shift towards healthier and more sustainable dietary choices (i.e., high eco-cost meat to low eco-cost meat, meat-centric diets to flexitarian or vegan, etc. and decreased consumption of ultra-processed foods, sugar, etc.).

Chef Collaboration Opportunities with The Kitchen Adventure App

Join Us in Transforming Culinary Experiences

Why Collaborate with Us?

The Kitchen Adventure is a programme run by Climate Smart Elephant communication and education agency. Funded by EU grants, it has two legs: (1) a comprehensive school programme offering lesson plans and online cooking sessions to families, and (2) a recipe app that deploys gamification elements to engage families in trying out plant-based and sustainable recipes.

The recipe app – not surprisingly – needs tried and tested, tasty recipes (not only plant-based) and professional chefs who can be trusted by our users. Therefore we are on the search for chefs who can enrich our recipe offer with their creations. The app is in beta mode and will be launched in August 2024. In the near future, we are going to need chefs who can deliver paid online cooking classes to our users as well.

In summary: as a chef, you have the opportunity to influence and inspire a wide audience, sharing your passion and knowledge.

Collaboration Opportunities

Recipe Development

  • Innovate & Inspire: Provide us with your best tried and tested new recipes that cater to various dietary needs and preferences, such as gluten-free, vegan, and plant-based options. You can also offer us meat-based recipes, as we are not a vegan app: our mission is to mainstream plant-based choices, but not to preach and convert to veganism.

  • Showcase Your Expertise: All chefs offering us recipes are featured above the recipe and also, have a separate intro page where they can promote themselves even more.

Live Cooking Sessions

  • Engage Directly: In our revenue-sharing partnership model, you can conduct paid live online cooking classes to interact with users, offering hands-on learning experiences and personalized cooking tips. We help you find your students and offer our platform and expertise so you can run your sessions smoothly.

  • Build Your Brand: Increase your visibility and connect with a broader audience through these engaging, interactive sessions.

Content Creation

  • Creating challenges/online courses: Currently this feature is in development, however, if you are an expert in a certain culinary style or dietary preference, we can help you build your Create high-quality video tutorials, blog posts, and culinary tips to educate and inspire our users.

Benefits of Collaboration

  • Expand Your Reach: Connect with a global audience of food enthusiasts and home cooks, sell online and offline cooking sessions.

  • Promote Healthy Eating: Contribute to a platform that emphasizes sustainable and healthy cooking practices.

  • Professional Growth: Enhance your professional portfolio with diverse content and interactive experiences.

  • Network of Chefs: Network with an international community of other chefs, learn from each other!

How to Get Started

Interested in collaborating with The Kitchen Adventure? Contact us at viktoria.soos@climatesmartelephant.com to discuss how we can work together to bring your culinary vision to life.

Join us in our mission to make cooking an adventure!

More info: https://thekitchenadventure.com/

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