We always like to share some of the most common mistakes or problems found in the school kitchens.
Today we talk about using the wrong size of saucepan. Sometimes, schools increase their population, with the amount of food also increasing in the same proportion.
This means the capacities of the saucepans used are not appropriate, and the school would need to either buy a bigger institutional improved cook stove (IICS), or they can enlarge the current saucepan used - while they look for funds to make a new purchase.
Action needs to be taken fast, because when using a saucepan that it is overfilled on a daily basis, food has salt and will damage and corrode the IICS combustion chamber. We always train and monitor cooks to ensure they leave 1/3 of their saucepan capacities free to allow for the food not to spill outside when boiling.
We share a picture here below with the typical mistake we find with the cooking of beans, you can see how this saucepan has now become small and the soup reaches all the way to the top.
