When you are at a Gurdwara, the normal practice is either you perform a prayer or get involve in some work. Knowing myself, getting involve in some work is my work.
The committee needed someone to prepare French fries. Not my kind of food however still better than not doing anything. So, I started. At first we got the cooking oil, a good 5 liters of it, into a huge pan and get the oil heated up. Once the oil was heated up, we later put in 2 begs full of fries. I think each beg must have been about 500g. So it's 1kg of fries in 5 liters of oil. 'What a killer combination' hilariously I told myself.
I discovered that when the fries are put into the pan, it gets somewhat coagulated inside and as it's being cooked, it surfaces and it makes it very easy to be scooped out once it's cooked. I was sure I witness food technology in practice there.
I think food technology has come a long way in helping us humans to plant, grow, preserve and do many other things with crops and foods to custom to what is convient to us. However, laterly it has taken a massive negative publicity. From genetic modified organism to engineered seeds that produce cancer causing reaction to our body in the fast foods that we consume, alot is being said about it nowadays.
When the fries were done, I scooped the fries into another container. Here I need to add salt. I added salt and then I tasted the fries. As I lifted one of the hundreds of stick of fries, my brain couldn't resist from calculating the amount of calories. I rationalized and 25 Calories came to my mind. I'm sure my bodies metabolic processes could take care of it. The fries by the way tasted very good. Psyching myself up, I told myself I can now be in food business. Well I'm sure that's a different ball game all together.
So, at the end it was saturated fats, trans fatty acid and sodium for 2013.
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