The All-New Climate-Friendly Cooking!

2025 was a quiet year for Climate-Friendly Cooking: We have published only one new recipe in January. However, behind the scenes, we have been busy and are now proud to present the result of this - the all-new Climate-Friendly Cooking site.

We have re-built the site from the ground up. Here is a short overview of the key improvements:

• A new design that is still simple but less minimalist, with a focus on making the recipe section better, slightly more colourful and easy to navigate. We also focused on the mobile experience, as many people visit us from their phone.
• A much better carbon ranking that includes automatic comparison vs. the average across recipes and allows diving into sub-rankings, e.g. within all vegetarian recipes. We used to maintain this manually, but now have an automatic way for this.
• Better recipe box formatting with different ingredient boxes for different screen sizes.
• A new way of looking at recipes with variations, e.g. Bao Buns.
• A new recalculated carbon footprint for cooking methods, e.g. now using the EU average of the CO₂ grid intensity.

We have actually rebuilt the site from the ground up and then migrated all content. For the nerds: We moved from Hugo to Astro, mainly with the help of coding agents and custom migration assistants we wrote for this purpose. Behind the scenes, we have merged the previously entirely separate German and English sites into one centrally managed project, making it easier to manage. We also optimized our processes and removed manual steps, making it faster and easier to publish articles.