The toolkit is a design system that explains cooking recipes as design artifact. It provides users, or "hackers," with theoretical tools to redesign and adapt recipes, promoting positive changes in our food preparation practices and consumption habits.

 

It consists of a series of ordered instructions and actions that allow users to organize recipe content and identify redesign opportunities. Users can replace specific fields or "codes" in the recipe and apply criteria based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2030 to create more sustainable food recipes, considering ingredients, production methods, nutrition, and food waste.

 

What if we could improve our food consumption habits by making adjustments to our recipes? How could we promote locality and seasonality in ingredients by changing their descriptions? What if we could reduce food waste by modifying cooking techniques in the instructions? All these scenarios can be explored by rewriting the information in the recipe—essentially "hacking" its "codes." Cooking recipes are key representations of gastronomic culture, as they contain the essential information needed to execute and reproduce any food product (Fischler, 1988).