Nutritious lunches upgraded at no extra cost: Hong Zhaosheng turns kitchen ladies into Michelin chefs
School lunches are not nutritious! The traditional Chinese-style big-pot cooking used for school lunches easily causes nutrient loss and ruined texture, and even raises food safety risks because of uneven heating. Chef Hung Chao-sheng, who promotes school lunch reform, says children eat these school lunches for 6 years or 9 years, yet the traditional kitchen techniques of today have long since destroyed the nutritional content of the food. He hopes that by introducing segmented cooking and giving out recipes, every kitchen auntie can become a Michelin chef, so that school lunches are not only nutritious but also delicious.
Looking forward to introducing smart kitchens to improve cooking safety
Li Chung-hui also stressed that cooking with the new Western methods can save more time and effort. "This is a revolution in lunch, a revolution in method." Parents do not need to pay more, and their children can still eat more nutritious and delicious lunches. The school will also include these new-style menus in its school lunch menu, with at least one day out of every 5 days featuring these new-style dishes. A kitchen auntie surnamed Su at Dajia Elementary School also said that before, the methods were Chinese-style, and now Chinese and Western styles are combined. Although she was unfamiliar at first and is still learning, she can truly feel that it is more effort-saving, and the dishes are also richer than before.
The second stage of the plan hopes to have every school introduce new-style equipment to build modern kitchens and improve lunch quality and safety. Hung Chao-sheng says that under the concept of the Internet of Things, combining smart kitchenware to develop a cooking safety monitoring system means that once incomplete cooking occurs, a warning is immediately sent through a cloud connection, allowing the kitchen to respond and make corrections right away and prevent food poisoning. The final plan is to rebuild the school lunch industry model, overturn everyone's stereotyped impressions, and let children eat healthily and with peace of mind.
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