food production syllabus

1. **Question : What is RECHAUFFE cooking ?
IMP Question
ANSWER : *WARMED LEFTOVER FOOD.
*OLD MATERIAL REWORKED OR REHASHED.
*WARMED-UP LEFTOVER FOOD
*OLD, STALE, OR REWORKED MATERIAL

2. Rechauffe in a broader sense :
Re-heating the food

3. • Rechauffé is the art of using up leftovers, but it
is more than digging into the fridge and mixing
ordinary leftover meals - it takes more careful
planning and is used in many larger hotels and
smaller kitchens.
• The advantages include reducing waste,
saving money, and it also saves lots of time
• Here is a range of uses:
• Brown or red onion skins,
• As well as beetroot peelings can be used as a
natural dye in soups or stocks.

4. • Potato peelings can be seasoned with spices
and baked until crisp for a low fat snack.
• Carrot, onion & celery trimmings can be
used in stocks.
• Egg shells (free of any raw egg yolk) are an
old fashioned way of clarifying stocks. Simply
add them and simmer gently for a few
minutes or until clear, skim any egg white
that rises to the surface as egg white also
helps to trap particles for removal.
• Most other peelings are really only useful for
the compost or the bin.

5. What is Solar cooking ?
• A solar cooker, or solar oven, is a device
which uses the energy of sunlight to heat
food or drink to cook it or sterilize it.
• High-tech Versions, For Example :
• Electric ovens powered by solar cells, are
possible, and have some advantages such as
being able to work in diffuse light.

6. There are 4 basic types of
Solar Cookers
PANEL cookers,
BOX cookers (sometimes called box ovens),
PARABOLIC cookers, and
TUBE cookers.

7. Solar cooking doesn’t require :
Cooking
gas,
Kerosene,
Electricity,Coal
Wood.

8. Solar-Cooking

11. About Solar -Cooking
• Solar cooking is done by means of the suns UV rays.
• A solar cooker lets the UV light rays in and then converts
them to longer infrared light rays that cannot escape.
• Infrared radiation has the right energy to make the water, fat
and protein molecules in food vibrate vigorously and heat
up.
• It is not the sun’s heat that cooks the food, nor is it the
outside ambient temperature, though this can somewhat
affect the rate or time required to cook, but rather it is the
sun’s rays that are converted to heat energy that cook the
food; and this heat energy is then retained by the pot and
the food by the means of a covering or lid.
• An effective solar cooker will use the energy of the sun to heat
a cooking vessel and efficiently retain the energy (heat) for
maximum cooking effectiveness.

12. What do you mean by –
System Catering
• System catering is a method of standardized
food preparation which cannot be duplicated
at all the branches of a catering chain such as
KFC, McDonald's ,subway etc
• The catering is centrally controlled and the
various branches sell the same product range
and provide the same service.

13. TOPIC – SYSTEM CATERING
• System catering centrally coordinated catering
concept which can be duplicated.
• System catering is characterized by
Standardization:
• Each-unit of a commercial chain can
reproduce the same product range and the
same service.

14. All units have an
Common :
Fittings
Interior Fixtures
Identical
External
Appearance,
Quality
standards

15. Common features :
• Identical External Appearance,
• Interior Fixtures And Fittings And
• Quality Standards.
• Most of us are familiar with system catering in
the form of Fast food restaurants / giants
Standard Portioning is also common factor.

16. For example
KFC
Mc
Donald's
Dominos
Pizza Hut
Barbeque
Nation
Subway