Thought for Food

3M Company's research found that food gets tired" when there is too long a lapse between preparation and delivery to patient. This happens often in hospitals that serve thousands of meals daily because food must be cooked well in advance and stored hot until mealtime then moved to nursing units some distance from central kitchen. In this lengthy process meal loses heat and moisture looks unappetizing and most important loses nutritional value. Food no longer need suffer fatigue thanks to integral heating system adapted from Apollo spacecraft. Key to system is "dish oven" which doubles as heating unit and serving plate. Dish oven consists of sealing frame a plastic outer shell and a ceramic inner dish. A special coating on bottom of inner dish transforms electrical impulses into heat."

Full article: http://hdl.handle.net/hdl:2060/20070019880