Delicious results from the 'Banana Lab'

a table full of baking possibilities - featuring brown bananas diverted from the waste bin

food waste info posted on a wall at the lab

sunny spring banana cake...waiting to be baked

a new door!

first fire of the season, back in business (note: this is not usually the way to bake, i.e. with fire burning, but we were just itching to get our banana creations baked)

banana... ravioli?.... dumplings?  delicious!

banana... pie!

banana... pancake!

banana recipes were recorded, including this one for a banana dip, to be collected into a cookbook :)

Archie goes bananas!

According to recent studies, 400 million kg of edible food are thrown out to waste each year in Finland, of which around 100 million kg are accounted to the food industry, 130 million kg to households, and 170 million kg to other parts of the food chain. Last year's Restaurant day's foraging quest led us to the forest, this time it will be the backyards of supermarkets, restaurants and homes. Our appointed food waste representative is: the banana!

We invite you warmly to participate in our outdoors laboratory to create and invent new recipes from unwanted bananas. Your creations will be baked by Archie the oven at Kalasatama's container square and shared on an open buffet table. The recipes will be compiled into a cookbook which can be downloaded, printed, and shared from an online self-publishing platform.


Open call: Do you have some food ingredients getting dusty in your shelves that you won't ever use again until they turn bad? Don't wait for that moment and bring them along to complement our lab ingredients!

Let's go bananas!

The Urban oven activists :)

Spring fixing successful!

Clearly first signs of spring!

 
Ouch, my teeth are missing

Mixing clay and sand to fix the cracks and Archie's arch

 
Hmm, where did all the bricks go?

 
Let's just break them in two!

 
Will the wonderous arch work again?

 
Yeah, physics of arches!

Last Sunday, the oven activists had their first fixing-talkoot at Kalasatama's container square to repair existing cracks and Archie's arch, which had broken down during his busy season last year. He is drying now - the next step will be to build a shelter and to test-fire him for his third season! Congratulations Archie for your endurance!

Archie's new face

After a rather long break due to arch-breakdown during fall last year and a long winter, Archie has received a new face and hairdo (see picture)! The oven tribe was more pleased than anything else about the oven's new look and already started thinking up a new shelter - in hat-shape, of course. Maybe that could be an open workshop for all interested Helsinkians during the upcoming Container Square opening party on May 17th? :)