Food processing – temperature, time and nutrient retention

Design & TechnologyFood & TextilesAges 14–15

The kitchen simulates cooking a dish through four steps: prep, marinating or mixing, cooking, and serving. Students pick an ingredient, a cooking method (boiling, steaming, frying, or mixing with no heat), set the temperature and time, then watch the dish's doneness, remaining vitamins, and bacteria count in the food change minute by minute. Click Chop Finely to see the food cook faster but lose more vitamins.