Home kitchens · United Kingdom

Your fridge has nothing new
to say.

Somebody four streets away is cooking something you have never tasted. Order it. Or open your own kitchen and cook for them.

I want to eat Real food from real kitchens near you. Not a restaurant. Not a chain. I want to cook You already cook well. Get paid for it, from your own kitchen.

The whole idea

Flavour travels further
than dinner should.

A recipe crosses continents and generations to reach a kitchen down your road. Then it stops, because there is nowhere for it to go. That is the gap.

Jollof, Ìyá's way

Cooked by Adaeze · Peckham

4,760miles from Lagos
380metres from you

Sunday laing

Cooked by Marisol · Earlsfield

6,720miles from Bicol
1.1km from you

Nan's steak pie

Cooked by Ray · Bermondsey

3generations back
600metres from you

How it works

Two ways in.

If you're eating

  1. Say where you areWe show the kitchens cooking near you tonight.
  2. Pick something you can't pronounceThat's the point. The fridge is for food you already know.
  3. Collect or get it deliveredWhichever the cook offers. You see it before you pay.
  4. Tell them what you thoughtReviews stay attached to the cook, not the platform.

If you're cooking

  1. Register your kitchenWe walk you through the council registration. It's free and it's the law.
  2. List what you're makingOne dish or ten. Set your own price and your own quantity.
  3. Cook only what sellsOrders close before you shop. No waste, no guessing.
  4. Get paid directMoney goes to your account, not ours. We take a cut of the order, nothing up front.

Kitchen standard

Anyone can cook. Not anyone can sell.

Selling food from home in the UK is a registered activity, and we won't pretend otherwise. Every kitchen on Dump That Fridge goes through the same gate before a single dish goes live. It takes longer. It's the reason you can order from a stranger's kitchen and not think twice.

  • Registered with your local council at least 28 days before trading — free, and we help you do it.
  • Food hygiene rating displayed on your kitchen page, whatever it says.
  • Full allergen information on every dish, as required under Natasha's Law.
  • Level 2 Food Safety training completed — we'll point you at a course that costs less than a takeaway.

Opening in South London first

Get in early.

We're starting with one area and going deep, so there's actually something to order when you arrive.

One email when your area opens. Nothing else, and you can leave any time.