Tonight’s Market Kitchen features un-environmentally sound food products which the presenters and guest chefs believe should be put into the ‘Market Kitchen Compost bin’ in a Room 101 style.
The products…
Bottled Water - elected by Arthur Potts Dawson
Bottled water makes up 16% of the British soft drink market and we drink over 2 billion litres each year! 81% of the water sold in the UK comes in plastic bottles and the distance it travels to get to us produces thousands of tonnes of CO2. Our tap water is fine to drink and is 500 times cheaper! It’s no wonder Arthur has elected bottled water as his choice.
Shelled Shrimps - elected by Matt Tebbutt
UK-caught langoustine travels thousands of miles to be processed and then back again to be turned into breaded scampi and put on sale in the UK. The journey begins in a traditional way with the catch being landed by inshore fishing boats in parts of Scotland, where it used to be shelled and processed by machine. Now the catch gets sent to Rotterdam and on to Bangkok to be shelled by hand, then returned via Rotterdam before it reaches our shores to be breaded and sold. The round trip is about 17,000 miles!
Asparagus from South America - elected by Mark Jankel
When asparagus is out of season in the UK, it is imported from South America, stacking-up thousands of food miles and processed with little regard for sustainability. It is no longer fresh when it gets here and not nearly as nutritionally beneficial as eating British asparagus in season.
Farmed Tuna - elected by Diana Henry
Farming fish seems to be the answer to achieving sustainability, however it’s not necessarily environmentally friendly. Young bluefin tuna are caught and corralled in vast purse-shaped nets that are hauled by tugboat around the southern ocean at less than one mile per hour for eight months. The tuna ‘ranchers’ battle storms and fend off sharks whilst all the time feeding the growing tuna with tonnes of sardines and pilchards. Ranching tuna is one of the most scarily inefficient and unsustainable factory farming methods known to mankind.
Watch tonight (UKTV Food 7pm) to see what goes into the MK Compost Bin and hear what the MK diners think should go in too.
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