cookery.

No one wants perished food in their pantries. With Cookery, we notify you when the expiration date is coming closer, and we make cooking fun and easier by connecting residents to cooking parties.

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Elbion and I are Minerva University Students. We have a communal kitchen, a walk-in fridge, and a pantry. I have personally smelled perished food in one of the above, including my food. Other peers have had the same experiences as well. We recognize that this is a problem among all college students (one of our targeted groups), but not only. Food perishing is a global problem that many try to tackle as a factor of food waste. We believe that one of the leading causes of food going bad is us forgetting about it. The expiry date is long due; thus, we contribute to the world’s food waste problem.

On the other hand, cooking is way more fun when surrounded by peers from all over the world who are cooking their hometown's meals. We enjoy tasting dishes from different cultures and discussing similarities and differences. We were inspired by this delightful atmosphere and wanted to scale it up and target different groups of people. Every family has its unique way of cooking, so folks can share their family recipes, and it will still be interesting to try them out even without the vibrant diversity we have at Minerva.

We understand that to prevent forgetting about something, well, you get reminded about it. But we take it one step further. We incentivize the habit of cooking (which is another way to tackle food waste in general) with Cookery (noun, “art of cooking”), ensuring that no food goes to waste. Whether in your college dorm, workplace, or any other communal space, you can use Cookery to remind you of your nearly expired food and cook with others. You can add your grocery items manually or by scanning the barcode and the expiration date. With some ingredients in your digital pantry, you can join a cooking party, start your own, or have a look at the recipes with your nearly expired ingredients. You can also give away your nearly expired groceries to other people if there’s a time constraint holding you back from cooking. Thus, no food will go to waste.

Although early stage, we’ve been able to develop an interactive Figma prototype which you can see at the link attached below. We consider React Native and Cockroach DB the best stack to create this app. We also need to include different APIs, including Ean-Search, for the barcode scanners. The nearly expired items in your pantry will be stored in a general database for people to collect and use so it doesn't go to waste.

Cookery as an idea has come up and has been developed within the timeframe of CalHack 9.0 only. With time as a constraint, we’ve been trying to come up with a prototype that would best represent the idea. Being a team of two didn’t help speed up the development, so task delegation and time management were the two main obstacles we faced.

Nevertheless, in less than 24 hours, we’ve been able to design a 10-page interactive Cookery prototype.

Along the way, we realized that this has more applications than we initially thought. This is a great incentive to deal with nearly expired food and to reduce food waste.

We think of Cookery to be developed on blockchain in the near future. Next, except for starting to develop it on web3, we’re planning to integrate personalized suggestions for food allocation and management.

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