https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360599753/children-eat-melted-plastic-appalling-school-lunch

Let say for the sake of arguement your convection oven is a domestic oven
on Fan Bake. How long would heat the lunches, assuming a 5 degree C starting temp and 40 degrees C finish.

30mins at 180 degrees C? Remember we are just heating the food not cooking
it.

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On 4 Mar 2025 06:55:13 GMT, Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> wrote:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360599753/children-eat-melted-plastic-appalling-school-lunch

Let say for the sake of arguement your convection oven is a domestic oven
on Fan Bake. How long would heat the lunches, assuming a 5 degree C starting >temp and 40 degrees C finish.

30mins at 180 degrees C? Remember we are just heating the food not cooking >it.

We can say a lot of things for the sake of argument, but context is
important. These meals are apparently being reheated - we do not know
the timing from initial cooking to then being reheated - and that will
affect the time required. From the article it is possible that the
meals are being cooked in Hamilton and transported 800 km.

So the meals may be cooked in Hamilton, taken by plane to Nelson, then
by truck to Murchison. Could they be cooked and frozen, then stored in
Nelson and distributed and thawed / heated. Then add a few more
schools with different travel times, and suddenly it becomes very
complex. Add in that different meals may require different treatment /
timing. Then of course for a different meal, different timings may
apply, freezing may be impossible.

Now nothing I have speculated on above may be remotely close to the
real problems, and that is just for one meal for one school. I am not
surprised they are having problems though. It would be interesting for
someone else to speculate on possible problems with providing
different meals each day to isolated schools from a small number of
factories . . .

Again from a layman's view, the café next door looks more attractive -
either for all the meals, or for storage and heating.

Perhaps we should have Christopher Luxon rushing around with marmite
sandwiches and pieces of fruit . . .

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On Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:06:16 +1300, Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On 4 Mar 2025 06:55:13 GMT, Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> wrote:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360599753/children-eat-melted-plastic-appalling-school-lunch

Let say for the sake of arguement your convection oven is a domestic oven >>on Fan Bake. How long would heat the lunches, assuming a 5 degree C starting >>temp and 40 degrees C finish.

30mins at 180 degrees C? Remember we are just heating the food not cooking >>it.

We can say a lot of things for the sake of argument, but context is >important. These meals are apparently being reheated - we do not know
the timing from initial cooking to then being reheated - and that will
affect the time required. From the article it is possible that the
meals are being cooked in Hamilton and transported 800 km.

So the meals may be cooked in Hamilton, taken by plane to Nelson, then
by truck to Murchison. Could they be cooked and frozen, then stored in
Nelson and distributed and thawed / heated. Then add a few more
schools with different travel times, and suddenly it becomes very
complex. Add in that different meals may require different treatment / >timing. Then of course for a different meal, different timings may
apply, freezing may be impossible.

Now nothing I have speculated on above may be remotely close to the
real problems, and that is just for one meal for one school. I am not >surprised they are having problems though. It would be interesting for >someone else to speculate on possible problems with providing
different meals each day to isolated schools from a small number of
factories . . .

Again from a layman's view, the café next door looks more attractive -
either for all the meals, or for storage and heating.

Perhaps we should have Christopher Luxon rushing around with marmite >sandwiches and pieces of fruit . . .

Well you have plumbed new depths of worthless political rhetoric Rich.
You have descended to worthless political speculation. If this is all
you have now then expect your posts to be ignored. You certainly
cannot debate.


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Crash McBash

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Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:

On 4 Mar 2025 06:55:13 GMT, Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> wrote:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360599753/children-eat-melted-plastic-appalling-school-lunch

Let say for the sake of arguement your convection oven is a domestic oven >>on Fan Bake. How long would heat the lunches, assuming a 5 degree C starting >>temp and 40 degrees C finish.

30mins at 180 degrees C? Remember we are just heating the food not cooking >>it.

We can say a lot of things for the sake of argument, but context is >important. These meals are apparently being reheated - we do not know
the timing from initial cooking to then being reheated - and that will
affect the time required. From the article it is possible that the
meals are being cooked in Hamilton and transported 800 km.

So the meals may be cooked in Hamilton, taken by plane to Nelson, then
by truck to Murchison. Could they be cooked and frozen, then stored in
Nelson and distributed and thawed / heated. Then add a few more
schools with different travel times, and suddenly it becomes very
complex. Add in that different meals may require different treatment / >timing. Then of course for a different meal, different timings may
apply, freezing may be impossible.

Now nothing I have speculated on above may be remotely close to the
real problems, and that is just for one meal for one school. I am not >surprised they are having problems though. It would be interesting for >someone else to speculate on possible problems with providing
different meals each day to isolated schools from a small number of
factories . . .

Again from a layman's view, the café next door looks more attractive -
either for all the meals, or for storage and heating.

So you know nothing about catering. So why post?

Perhaps we should have Christopher Luxon rushing around with marmite >sandwiches and pieces of fruit . . .

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