At his Brighton restaurant, voted Best Ethical by OFM readers, Doug McMaster grinds his own flour, churns his own butter, and ships his coffee in by sailboat
Doug McMaster, the 29-year-old owner of Silo in Brighton, spends a lot of time thinking about oven cleaner. “My oven only takes one type of cleaning product,” he says, “and the only way to get that cleaning product is in a plastic container.”
This bothers him, because at Silo he has a rule that “at least 99% of what we buy will go into our customers’ bellies, into our compost machine’s belly, or will be re-used in some other way”.
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