The Horse 2019/20

Hello everyone

YOUR VOICE COUNTS!

Today we created a survey about Junk food on KoboToolbox. We would appreciate it if you would fill out this survey. Just click on the word "survey". 

Thank you very very much in advance!

Authors M17a

Lisa Hediger, Noémie Käser

Hello everyone,

At home we asked our family about our topic "impact on food by climate". Today we will analyse the answers and write them down and also find out what the biggest difference is between the older and the younger generation (parents and siblings).

It would be advantageous if we could prepare everything for the post on dontwastemy.energy.

Best regards,

Maria & Deniz

Hi Guys,

Today we discussed about a collaboration with the team sustainable packaging. We are planning to have a close collaboration next week. We will give inputs about airplane food packaging and our colleagues will give us a short overview about the different opportunities of sustainable packaging methods.

We’d like to find out if the way of packaging of the airplane food is sustainable and if not, if there are possibilities to change this for the future.

We are looking forward to the collaboration and to gain some new knowledge.

Best regards,

Team sustainable packaging & Team Airplane Food

Dear all,

What are airlines doing to reduce their food waste? How does airplane food stay fresh? 

Please visit our post on the net if you would like to hear more....

Best regards,

Jeff & Loris

Definition Junk Food

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Hello everyone,

We will talk about the impact on climate by food. We've posted the imagination step 1 an now we will think about how it well look like in a hundred years.

First of all we need to imagine what we will eat in a hundred years. Did we change our eating habits because of our climate, because there are no animals left or because of cultural change? In our opinion we will have changed our eating habits because of the climate. At this time the meat production will still exist but it will be reduced enormous and we will eat more insects than nowadays. Insects can replace beef, pork and chicken, because of their high amount of energy and protein. In addition eating insects would be better for our environment, because we don't have too give them food as we have to do with cows, pigs and chickens. Furthermore there will be less vegetables and fruits, because our climate will change and the import will be more difficult because of the co2 emission.

Best regards,

Deniz and Maria

In 100 years...

... we may eat less Junk Food. More and more people start to overthink their eating habits. Especially in the european countries people want to support local and healthy food.

... we may print our food with a 3D-printer and wouldn't have any Junk Food restaurants in our towns. The development of the 3D-Print technology, will always get better.

... we may all have our own little garden for our food. So the environment will get protected, because the food, doesn't have to travel from other countries to ours.

Authors M17a

Lisa Hediger und Noémie Käser

Hello dear Horseback riders

We were able to get in contact with a spokesperson from Gate Gourmet and ask our Questions. We'll post the original answers in german and add a short english translation.

Please feel free to take a look at them.

1) How can a salad stay fresh at an altitude of 10 kilometers?

• Wie kann ein Salat auf 10 km Flughöhe frisch und knackig bleiben?

Salate oder allgemein alle Speisen im Trolley verlassen die Kühlkette (gekühlter Truck) nicht und werden in einer gekühlten Position im Galley (Flugzeug Küche/Trolley Park) versorgt, bevor sie serviert werden auf entsprechender Flughöhe.

Dazu werden Blattsalate vom Passagier selber angemacht (Dressing Portion auf dem Tray).

Salads or generally all food in the trolley do not leave the cold chain and are stored in a refrigerated position in the galley (aircraft kitchen), before they are served at the appropriate altitude.

For this purpose, the salad is prepared from the passenger himself  (dressing portion on the tray).

2) Do the ingredients lose any of their vitamins or minerals?

• Gib des bei den Zutaten irgendwelche Vitamin oder Mineralstoff Verluste?

Vitamine und Minerale bleiben ohne Verlust erhalten, jedoch führt der Kabinendruck zu einer verminderten Speichelproduktion beim Passagier, wobei Salzgehalt in den Speisen und Tannin im Wein schwächer wahrgenommen werden. Moderne Flugzeuge können aber mittlerweile den Kabinendruck ausgleichen.

Vitamins and minerals are preserved without loss, however, the cabin pressure leads to a reduced production of saliva, so that the salt content in the food and tannin in the wine are perceived weaker. Although, modern aircrafts can compensate the cabin pressure which solves that problem.

3) Do the producers keep in mind the seasonality and the sustainability of the meals?

• Achten Sie als Produzenten auf Saisonale und nachhaltige Mahlzeiten?

Unbedingt! Kostendruck und Lokalität, dazu Nachhaltigkeit lassen uns als Caterer nur diese Wahl!

Den Airlines werden saisonale Menus im 1-3 Monate Wechsel präsentiert (SWISS,EK,SQ) und Gategroup wird noch mehr auf Plastikreduktion und recycelbare Ressourcen zurückgreifen!

Wir verkaufen  bereits kompostierbares Geschirr aus Pflanzenfasern und setzen dies schon z.T. ein.

Der Ball liegt bei den Airlines, unsere «grünen» Produkte auch einzusetzen!

Absolutely! Cost pressure and locality, as well as sustainability let us as caterers only this choice!

Seasonal menus will be presented to airlines in 1-3 months, and Gategroup will use plastic reduction and recyclable resources even more!

We already sell compostable crockery made of vegetable fibers and are already putting this on.

The ball is up to the airlines to use our "green" products as well!

4) Approximately, how much energy is used to reheat the meals in the aircraft?

• Wie viel Energie wird ungefähr für die Zubereitung einer Mahlzeit gebraucht?

Dazu habe ich leider keine Zahlen, aber die Strategie der Firma ist klar und wir legen sehr viel Wert darauf , unsere Natur zu schonen und Müllberge zu reduzieren!

Aus getrennten Küchenabfällen/Retouren vom Flugzeug wird Biogas produziert.

Unfortunately, I have no figures, but the strategy of the company is clear and we put a lot of effort on conserving our nature and reducing waste!

From separate kitchen waste / returns from the aircraft biogas is produced.

If you have any questions or recommendations do not hesistate to yell out "yeehaw".

Kind regards

Jeff & Loris

We made an interview and today we will post the interview on the horse. Additionally, we also try to collaborate with our colleagues from the project sustainable packaging. With the collaboration we want to pull the project on a new level.

Best regards,

Jeff & Loris

How will Airplane food look like in a 100 years?

In our future the airplane food will be liquid and in some sort of tube or package like the ones the astronauts use.

However, this is only the case if we as humanity still have to fly for several hours and not beam around the place like they do in StarTrek.

Kind regards

Jeff & Loris

Impact on climate by food

In this two lessons we are going to finish our research for 20 minutes. After researching, we are going to exchange the results. We might have our conversation with Ms. Suter about how far we are during these lessons. Until the end of the second lesson we would like to have the questionnaire for the interview ready. We thought about a municipality, for example Bülach, Winterthur or Zürich. During the research, we might find some other contact points to do the interview with.

Best regards and have a nice day. 

Deniz and Maria