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Responsible Pizza Reflection

Problem:

We are faced with a problem of creating a pizza that is responsible in various ways. We have tocreate a pizza that we wont regret eating. This implies that we have to create a pizza with

specifications that all of our ingredients will contain.

Introduction to the project

Primarily, in the beginning of the unit, we were introduced to the facts of meat and the process theygo through before landing on our table. However, after this, we were to design a pizza that is

responsible in several ways, for instance, we were to create specifications such as the pizza has to

be ethical, seasonal and local. This was done in groups so we all could combine our ideas together

to eventually create a pizza that is unique, original which we wont regret eating.

Final PizzaOriginal design for pizza

As you can see our original design for the pizza and final pizza look fairly alike! This implies that

we have achieved our goal by following the design that we drew to the pizza that we baked.

Specifications:

1. Organic (grown naturally)2. Ethical (morally right)

3. Seasonal (grown in limited to specific times of the year)

4. Vegetarian (does not include meat)

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Organic, ethical, seasonal, vegetarian

su ar.

Organic, ethical, seasonal, vegetarian

whole weat flour.

Organic, ethical,vegetarian and seasonal

bell pepper and corn.

Local, organic and

vegetarian mushrooms.

Organic olives.

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Organic, ethical,

vegetarian and seasonal

mozzarella cheese.

Seasonal, organic

vegetarian and local salt.

Vegetarian and seasonal

yeast.

Organic, ethical,

vegetarian and seasonal

sweet basil.

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Cost for sauce:

Tomato= 69 --> 103 baht

Oregano= 49 --> 0.5 baht

Oil= 4 58 --> 20 baht

Onion=50 --> 20 baht

Garlic= 40 --> 5 baht

Sweet basil= 25 --> 12 baht

Baking soda= 18 --> 2 baht

Black pepper= 121 --> 2 baht

Salt- 8 --> 1 baht

Cost for pizza:

Mushroom- 59 --> 20baht

Yeast- 20-1 baht

Salt- 8 --> 10 satang

Flour-159--> 38 baht

Olive- 95--> 32

Green bell pepper- 49 --> 25

Mozzarella- 250 *2- ->400

Sweet basil- 25 baht-->25

Sugar-65 baht--> 0.5 baht

Corn-48 baht-->24 baht

Cost for overall pizza:

The overall cost of our pizza is 731.38 baht. Even though, I personally believe that it may berather expensive, however, by watching and learning from the videos in food technology, I

believe that it is worth the price to pay for the food.

What I learned throughout this project:

Throughout this project I initially learnt about the processing of meat. An astonishing fact that I

had learnt was that Chicken industries has set a motto for the integration of production

processing and the marketing of the products that other industries are now following because of

the way they have achieved a tremendous economy. However, I wonder why they set a mottofor the entire world that is done by cruel deeds. I believe that they should find a way that

compensates with everybody and that is fair to others including farmers, the animals and the

consumers.

Another surprising fact that I had leant is that birds are now raised and slaughtered in half the

time they were 50 years ago but now they are twice as big due to the hormones injected into the

chickens. This is only due to the fact that they earn more money by carrying this method out.

However, why cant they find a way that is sustainable, for instance not injecting hormones

into the chickens which will compensate everybody.

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The video changes my perspective of meat entirely, however, not to such an extent that I will

stop consuming it. I believe that companies that do not slaughter or kill the animal in a hurtful

or cruel method, should be recognized throughout the entire world, and should set a motto.

Therefore, I believe that buying and consuming meat from corporations that treat the animals

the way they should be treated is fine. I personally would also want to encourage other peopleto be aware of this fact and perhaps they would be able to make a difference, by simply buying

organic products or by doing numerous other things.

However, when I went to the supermarket, I never actually realized that it would be ratherdifficult to find organic or responsible food, as its said you cant judge a book by its cover.

On the other hand, I also learnt that it is worth to buy more expensive but responsible (organic,

ethical etc.) ingredients or food than rather pay the hospital bills if you get sick.

What I learnt from making the pizza:

Through the process of making the responsible pizza had taught me various things. I have made

pizza before however; taking into account the ingredients that has to be responsible certainly

made it more interesting, however, harder to decide the toppings. I learnt that actually

preparing the ingredients takes rather a lot of research to find the exact ingredients that are

compensates with our specifications.

I have also learnt that it takes time to prepare one pizza, for instance, making the dough, as we

have to knead the dough and wait for it to prove. Before making the pizza in school, I thought

that why would we need the entire lesson to create the pizza, however, when we started to

make it, I realized the time it would take as there are many steps or the process of making the

pizza is rather long.

I believe that we met our goal as accurately as possible as we considered a range of

specifications which we carried out rather well, we wont regret eating the pizza. We also put a

lot of effort for the final result of the pizza which makes me proud of the pizza we created as a

group. Our ideas combined created a rather good pizza overall.

By this unit, I believe that restaurants should also adapt the idea of buying there ingredients

against few specifications, even though it may be expensive therefore making the dishexpensive overall, but I believe that people would not mind paying the price for good deeds.

How does this relate to the IB leaner profiles?

In my perspective I believe that this relates to a range of IB learner profiles, specifically open

minded and caring. Primarily, this relates to open minded as we were receptive to ideas, the

pizza was carefully thought out not only to the narrow picture, of buying ingredients faster.

However we thought of the bigger picture, of how we could make something that we wont feel

remorse while eating it. We took into account various things, not only a specific amount

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This then leads to how our out pizza was caring. Since we had specifications that we followed,

we only included ethical, organic, vegetarian and seasonal ingredients in or on our pizza. This

implies that this is considerate concerning the animals and the healthy food that we, consumers,

eat.

However, as an overall project, I believe that this would clearly end into the balanced category

of the IB learner profile. As its said, balancing your life between sports, studies appropriate

food is crucial. This unit had informed me the appropriate foods we should eat for instance, not

including pesticides. Therefore, in conclusion I believe that it is vital to know what is better for

our health, as being healthy is what will help us succeed throughout our entire life. Hence, I

believe that this unit was rather fun, however at the same time, it has informed us useful

teaching of healthy foods and the process of animals, which will therefore help us make the

right choices.