7:00 PM – Dinner
7:00 pm – 07/10/2013
Homemade stir fried udon meal:
Udon
Minced pork
Cabbage
Onions
Garlic
(Bought at TNT supermarket)
To wrap up this blog assignment, I have decided to make a home cook meal to see the role of fossil fuels in a different perspective.
This meal consists of udon, minced pork, cabbage, onions and garlic as ingredients. The saran wrap on the cabbage caught my attention the most and I want to elaborate on why. Saran wrap is something that has crept into our everyday life as well, like corn, it has inserted itself into our lives. We use it to preserve food that we put in the fridge for the next day; we use it to cover food that is left out in the room to prevent spoiling it; and companies use it to wrap food to protect it from the process of transportation or for individual packaging in marketplaces.
The process to produce the plastic saran wrap that households use involves obtaining it from natural gas and processes that involve extremely high temperatures. Natural gas and the machines used for the raw materials to vaporize, to collect the vapor and collect the liquids formed after: All of these have to do with fossil fuel.
This made me do a little research on how people use to preserve food without electricity, refrigerators, saran wrap, most importantly fossil fuels. Cooking methods were different, mostly engaged in smoking, drying, freezing the food in snow, brining food in salt water etc.. These are methods that are still around these days within some countries or to some people’s preferences, but most people don’t engage in these methods that often anymore when it comes to daily meals.