A GUIDED TOUR
DO YOU KNOW WHAT A KITCHEN GARDEN ONCE MEANT?
The medieval kitchen garden
1485
Kitchen garden engraving
The kitchen garden, 14th–19th century
(noun): A forerunner of the modern cooker. A masonry structure with openings for embers, allowing several dishes to cook slowly over one hearth: soups, stews, broths and casseroles.
The modern kitchen garden
2026
Cuicui steam-stewing
Cuicui, 21st century
(noun): A portable cooking system made from terracotta. It brings heat and steam together to cook several dishes over one heat source: soups, stews, broths and casseroles.
Like a medieval kitchen garden, Cuicui brings cooperative cooking techniques back to the kitchen. More practical and portable, it improves thermal efficiency while reducing energy and water needs.
WELCOME TO THE KITCHEN OF THE FUTURE WITH CUICUI
THE MEDIEVAL KITCHEN GARDEN, REIMAGINED
FOR A SMARTER FLOW OF HEAT AND STEAM
Cooking today means more than choosing ingredients and knowing how to prepare them.
It also means adapting the way we cook to a world with new constraints.
Cuicui helps us organise our cooking as people once did,
using less water and energy.
ONE HEAT SOURCE FOR EVERYTHING
Placed over a saucepan of water, Cuicui cooks several dishes using a single heat source, just like the kitchen garden that preceded the modern cooker.
RUDIMENTERRE’S COOPERATIVE COOKING
Cuicui’s design guides heat and steam between each vessel stacked over a saucepan of water. It works with the natural water cycle to make cooking more thermally efficient:
The kitchen garden spirit 
For soups, broths and stews, with less waste. By preserving the food’s own moisture and recycling steam, Cuicui creates a flavourful distilled broth that concentrates each ingredient’s essence.
The heart of every grain 
For grains and legumes such as rice, lentils and couscous, cooked gently and evenly by absorption.
The old-fashioned oven 
Use it in a conventional oven to brown roasts, gratins and bread without drying them out. Terracotta’s thermal inertia keeps cooking beautifully balanced.
