Buying some cooked food and pastries on the way to work, so as not to sweat and cook after arriving home, is the choice of many citizens in the hot summer. Behind this "convenience" of the citizens is the "ice and fire double day" of the workers of food production enterprises - the cooks in the cooking workshop are stir-fried in the high temperature of more than 40 ° C, and the workers in the pastry workshop are working in a low temperature environment of 18 ° C.
In the cooking workshop of Shanghai's century-old "West District Old House" in the Azure Science and Technology Innovation Park in Jiuting Town, Songjiang District, the chefs are busy. The temperature next to the stove has exceeded 40°C, and the heat wave makes it difficult to open your eyes, while chefs wield huge spoons and spatulas and stir-fry food from time to time. The reporter learned that from the ingredients to the finished product, it often takes several hours of cooking.
In order to "cool down" the chefs, the company has also thought of many ways. A chef told reporters that recently, they have received multiple rounds of heat protection materials issued by the company, the park and Jiuting Town. "If it is a hot weather, the company requires us to take a break every two hours, and the lounge is prepared with salt soda, huoxiang zhengqi water and other cooling supplies, which we can use at will." The chef said. It is worth mentioning that the party branch of the Azure Science and Technology Innovation Park has also built a staff home, which is open to all employees of the park enterprises.
The cooking workshop is "hot in the sky", while the pastry workshop that makes fresh meat mooncakes is "cool". The reporter saw that the workers here were wearing long-sleeved trousers. "From filling to noodles to molding and transportation, our fresh meat mooncake production is a cold chain." Factory director Zhao Zhongwei told reporters that in recent days, the daily output of fresh meat mooncakes in the old house in the West District has reached 70,000, in order to ensure the freshness of ingredients, the temperature of the pastry workshop is set to 18 ° C, and the low temperature operation is also the "secret" to make the meat filling taste better after baking.
■ Photo by reporter Zhang Xiaoxiaowen
■ Text editor Yang Lu Xu Ping
■ Column Editor Wang Hongxia ■ Column Editor-in-Chief Qin Tian