BEIJING, March 29,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report
from China.org.cn on people's life in Xizang:
Songzhuji and her family live in a village in Nyainrong County,
Nagqu City, Xizang Autonomous Region. Given the 4700m altitude, the air pressure is much lower
than on the plains, so water boils at a little more than 80
degrees. This poses a culinary challenge for Songzhuji: undercooked
rice and cooked meat too firm to be swallowed. So, pressure cookers
are a necessity here on the plateau.
However, ordinary pressure cookers are designed for use on flat
plains; if used on plateaus, problems may arise, like a lack of
pressure, and safety issues. People use a pressure cooker to steam
rice, and then they'll have to switch to pans for cooking soup or
other dishes, which is not convenient enough, either.
The Xizang Autonomous Region has an average altitude of
over 4,000 meters, thus almost every household faces the
not-so-handy-cooker problem like Songzhuji. The local government
has directed attention to this issue: Trivial as it seems, it
actually has everything to do with whether local people can enjoy
tasty meals, and furthermore, whether they feel happy with their
lives.
Hence, the local government mobilized industry associations and
cooker manufacturers, and researched and experimented to seek
breakthroughs in the current design. Just three months later, a new
type of cooker was developed; eight months into its launch, the
production line of plateau-friendly pressure cookers was rolled
out, with a production amount of one million cookers per year,
gradually fulfilling demand in the whole region.
Songzhuji now has a new plateau pressure cooker which features a
temperature indicator on the lid, and two modes for cooking
different food. With it, Songzhuji can cook for her family safely
and efficiently, and the yak meat cooked using the new pot is more
chewable for children and the elderly.
In another village in Shannan City, Baguo, an elderly lady also
smiled at her new cooker — even with one hand handicapped, she can
still finish cooking one-handed using this cooker, free from any
extra help.
Besides the "plateau cooker," steamers and boilers that are
designed for plateau areas have also appeared in Xizang's
households. Statistics show that nearly 500,000 households in
Xizang have used such locally-produced plateau cookers, with nearly
a million people benefiting from them.
A single pressure cooker reflects the improvement in people's
lives in Xizang. For more and more households, traditional mud
stoves have been replaced by gas stoves, wooden yak butter churn
buckets have been replaced by electrical ones; on their tables,
steamed, boiled, stewed, and fried foods are common to be seen, and
the used-to-be-rare leafy greens are also more prevalent.
A pressure cooker designed for the plateau brought more tasty
meals to families in Xizang, while the story behind the cooker
epitomizes how people's lives there have been changing for the
cozier.
China
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http://www.china.org.cn/video/node_7230027.htm
A pressure cooker heats up a heartwarming life on the
plateau
http://www.china.org.cn/video/2024-03/29/content_117094660.htm
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