How French Chefs Cook 3.9 Million Hospital Meals Every Year | Big Batches | Insider Food
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- Опубліковано 14 лис 2023
- At the Hospices Civils de Lyon, in Lyon, France, chefs prepare 15,000 meals a day and 24 distinct menu items.
All of the meals are designed by dietitians and physicians to maximize recovery for patients at the hospital.
Since 2016, kitchen and hospital staff have been trained in "meal attitude," a hospitality training by the Paul Bocuse Institute that focuses on making quality food and creating a pleasurable and relaxing experience during mealtime.
We visited their kitchen to see how they prepare these meals in such big batches.
You can visit the hospital's youtube channel here: @CHUdeLyon
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How A French Hospital Cooks 3.9 Million Meals Every Year
One of the few restaurants making people's last meals. Whether they know it or not. Hospital catering is critical.
Bravo !
I never thought of it that way! Makes the job way more meaningful
I was in an unfortunate situation a couple of years ago & ended up in a public hospital in Brisbane for 3 nights. I was AMAZED by the food, especially, again for a public hospital! Turns out they were trialling a new 'room service' where you could basically order whatever you want from an extensive menu on an app, at anytime (within dietary restrictions of course) between 7am-7pm. I was almost sad to leave lol
One of the rare cases where the hospital's food is actually good
@felipestevens2719 well keep in mind, the USA doesn't think food is a human right
@@felipestevens2719 the central cuisine isn't located on the hospitals' site, as there are 15 different hospitals at HCL. It's reheated but still quite good (same food for the staff)
@@mizbonnieparker well the title of this video says a french hospital cooks meals not central cuisine, very misleading title
@@felipestevens2719 the employees are hospital staff and the building belongs to HCL, so this is is the hospital making the food. Only they have to distribute it to 15 different locations. Far still better than Sodexo industrial crap.
@@ChristopherTradeshow Not neccessarily, even north korea voted for food being a human right and we know how well that has been going for them. USA is responsible for half of the world's food aid, and USA explained it's reasoning for the vote with a pretty strong argument, definitely not that "we don't believe humans deserve food"
Unbelievable, my mouth was watering over hospital food! I wouldn't be surprised if the extra cost of providing good food actually pays for itself, where it gives patients both strength and also positivity, helping to engage in the healing process, and get better quicker
No it isn't 💀
yeah with anything but money
Remind me to get hospitalized in France. Better food and cheaper care than the US…
To live there expensive.
@PennyMsElite it's cheaper😂
@@stanislavkorniienko1523 No
@@PennyMsEliteyes....US is very very very expensive. I lived for 25 years in US until last week
@@bokisuba9702 You live in France?
Wow, I wish every hospital cares about the patient's meal like them
Food matters and the ones working at that hospital seem to know that! Bravo!
i love these large kitchen/cruise ship/airline/military kitchen vids
I love this series and Claudia's narration! Even hospital food in France is better than most restaurant food elsewhere 🤣
That 's an illusion, hospital food in France is as bad as anywhere else, even worse. I dunno if it' s cost saving or not, but it's bad.
I wish Claudia could narrate my life.
Meanwhile in Hungary:
slice of bread + small pack of honey. 😎
The same in Poland
heartwarming vid. Wish more hospitals realized that , that having a decent meal is also part of the healing experience....
Americans: Food is money. Brits: Food is fuel. French: Food is life! Life without food is death.
The French and British have the best food in the world. Food is more than fuel in the UK.
The hospitals in my area serve the same gross meal to everyone, regardless of dietary restrictions. So do the nursing homes, btw. Staff comes in with sour expressions, slams it on the little table, not a word said, then off they go. I have to admit there was one nice person from the kitchen once, so unusual I still remember it. This says reams about kitchen management.
This big batches is a wonderful segment. Keep them coming! This lady is wonderful.
Of course this would be in Lyon France. That’s the culinary capital of France 😂. Even in the hospital the food is excellent
Love
Claudia's narration too
The food looks so good. I hope one day I will wake up in a French Hospital.
Amazing
good concepts....great food, well done =)
Wow the Meals are fresh and tasty , Like in restaurants ❤
It’s lovely to see a hospital make its own food instead of trucking it in frozen! Wonderful ☺️
first time I've seen hospital food that looks good
Yea! Claudia is back flexing her linguist skills.
I feel like some hospitals and healthcare systems in the United States have adopted a similar approach geared towards American preferences. I was an acute care RN at a nice hospital for over 10 years and patients would complain about those meals and want chicken tenders and french fries which was not allowed with their diabetic diet that was ordered. Sometimes you can’t win. 🤷♀️
I lived in a community where the hospital food was so good it was competition for the local restaurants. Lineups for the cafeteria were normal.
Wow, the meals like so fresh & tasty just like in the restaurant. In my country, hospitals food are prepared 2 to 3 days ahead of the time & quick freeze after that. Then thawed & heat up when the cart reach the ward. 😪
Cool stuff
If only the hospital food served to me was this good
I've had to stay a week in one of the HCL two years ago and sure, it's still hospital food (seasoning...) but frankly, it could be way worse than what we get. Also, I'm only judging with what I got and looking at this video, I realise I've missed quite a few good looking things (oh, that chocolate tartelette !)
It's bland on purpose.
cuz it's hard to make food for each individual needs.
HCL employees get the same food in the cafeteria. And it's no that bad actually.
after seeing how michigan state does their macro management this was a sight
So true but hardly ever held as important. Food if enjoyable can be medicine for our soul. If our soul is satisfied, our body follows.
Not surprised, Lyon is the culinary/gourmet capital of France (and no, it's not Paris...) so it's quite logical hospitals there have this type of service. Now I have to eat something...
C'est pareil dans toutes les villes de France.
Fresh breads!!!! I’m jealous….
Interesting. A while ago I was watching a feature about how airline commissaries create their food and now hospitals
I'm deliberately getting sick if it means I can eat chocolate tarts at a hospital.
This hospital food is better then some airlines food
Amazing! British hospital food makes you more ill. They have the right attitude that good nutrition will aid your recovery
British food in general is just awful lol. Of course British hospital food is going to be a nightmare!
@@Ogilla One of those famous statistics that came out in the past was that more is spent on food, per person, in our prisons than in our hospitals in England.
Many other countries must learn from France
If even the French Laundry has great food, one can guess how good their hospitals must be
The biggest thing for me is that my food in France, any part of France needs to be mindblowing or my will to live will decline rapidly. Disappointing hospital food in France would kill me, I am that dramatic. So, glad to see yet another French operation working with such pride.
Wow.. US take notes
I need to get ill in France more often. 😋😂
Name pronunciation is on point,trebian
A quick note, this right here is an anomaly in terms of quality, in France most if not all hospitals are lacking in every derpartement because of non stop budget cuts who have been going over the years
As an American I fully support us taking this idea. I’m also pretty damned jealous of Japan’s school lunches.
Meanwhile, some hospitals in the US straight up serve fast food. A family member of mine was hospitalized many times and we try to bring them homemade food as much as we can. The healthcare system here is a joke
It puts the NHS to shame...
It puts the UK government to shame.
@@CyclingSteve No, it's the NHS. Inefficient, bureaucratic and money-guzzling. Best gotten rid of in its current form.
What’s the budget per meal is prob the most important question
I got 27 seconds in and could already tell no hospital in the US I can afford to go to makes their food like this. 3 tons of actual food a day? Nah, more like dehydrated, canned, frozen, shelf stable or prepackaged here. Cooking? Making their own bread? Maybe if you're rich and/or famous. The average pleb like me? Here's some lukewarm Chef Boyardee, that'll be $500 please.
Who gets the chocolate ganache tarts?
こういうのよ！😊
Muy rico
I live in France and I've worked in hospitals kitchens a few years during my studies. I got PTSD when i watched the video. 🥴😖 It's not that easy and beautiful as it seems. The food isn't as tasty as it looks. We used to eat during our pause time and the meat especially was tasteless. But it's better than nothing.
It's has to be over cooked and low sodium for safety it will never be like home made
@@Thraxounet It's not just about the cooking process. The food there isn't fresh. It's about frozen vegetables and meat that stay frozen for a long period until they come to the hospital to be cooked or served.
Is this a private hospital? Aka you have to pay for EVERYTHING here?
“Jeans” really lol
The NHS could never!
Food is medicine
I think the UK should learn from this!!! Our NHS food is totally appalling 🤢🤢🤢
..I’m wondering what’s was waiting time to get a bed in this hospital, because I don’t think any of the patients there are leaving any time soon…😅
if these people could see US hospital food
Hope❤
Wow that actually looks delicious. Why can’t US hospitals? Food, look and taste that delicious.
US is busy in funding genocide .
You sound idiotic. There are plenty of large scale hospitals in the States that serve food as fresh as this with the same or better quality. This is just one hospital in one city. Not every hospital in France serves food like this. The same can be said for smaller hospitals in the States.
@@llow1170 Are you the type of "person" to also say stuff like "the healthcare isn't ACTUALLY free, you know"? Because that's what you smell like. Go shower.
I remember hospital food everything tasted great, except the fish.
C’est trop beau💐🫶🫶🫶🔥😋😋😋
Meanwhile in Hungary, you get a dry slice of bread, with a bit of cheese...
And what do they eat at the weekend? Starving on dry baguette?
I'm guessing the same food, because as they mentioned in the video it is chilled after it is prepared and then reheated in those carts. Probably they make sufficient quantities at the end of the working week to last over the weekend.
@@juandenz2008 Must been the shock they all get not fresh meals at all. At a smaller scalle err batch nearby clinics get them in hot boxes. But that was some years ago. So it is for while I myself were in hospital setting as patient, and even that was only for the meal at noon, which in other regions would be the dinner.
I remember the food they gave my father during his hospital stays in Los Angeles and they would usually give him sugary things even though he's diabetic so we'd have to make a fuss about everything so they'd correct it or he'd only partially finish his food. It was even more terrible at the Skilled Nursing Facilities he stayed at... We had to call and complain so they'd his diet to cater to his needs. Such BS
That's French HOSPITAL FOOD????? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Now that's why I gladly pay taxes
meanwhile here in UK you basically get prison food when in hospital..
I wish this is how it is here in thr Philippines, but no.
I wish American hospitals cared tbis much
Heh, looks like even in France they still have pudding cups
How much to pay?
You do not pay for hospital food.
@@JackDespero is that hospital private or government'?
@@XPosingMallucontentoliTubersit's public, and private hospitals charge for extras you still get basic needs covered
@@XPosingMallucontentoliTubers France doesn't have privatized medicine because it focuses on saving people.
Should they get a Michelin Star.
Meanwhile the american patients are eating their canned pea/corn mix and maybe some canned "fruit salad" while paying like 287272726$ per hour
Sanji irl
I need to make sure to fly to France the next time I next time I need a hospital.
There’s strength in a holding pattern. This is why I don’t respect most engineers; They want to build something new and grand with their name on it while neglecting everything else. Real heroes don’t show up for ceremony.
There r different diets for people in hospital.
Of course out of any place on earth it’s the French who do the cooking properly even in hospitals
This hospital food put any hospital food in Canada to shame.
I was gonna say first but then realized that there are 2 more comments
we are not an assembly line....literally shows an assembly line 5 seconds later. We work with fresh ingredients....shows a bunch of frozen stuff. Great journalism insider!
Depok city's goverment cannot do this 😂😂😂
No saĺt huhu
New Zealand hospitals could actually learn a thing or two instead of cutting costs and going with the cheapest most rubbish food
Uk hospital food is beyong foul, Public or private. I'm moving to France soon as
GOURMET FOOD IN A HOSPITAL
Claudia hive assemble
00:33 yo wtf is that? green meatballs?
A type of gnocchi
I believe it's frozen spinach, by heating them up they will return to normal form
Frozen spinach
frozen creamed spinach
Spinach and pumpkin dumplings. I assume spinach in doufh, and pumpkin stuffing.
This is very nice to see where your taxes go. Bon!
15000 meals per day, 365 days in a year.. that's 5.475 million. I like your content, Insider, but you often have problems with basic math.
I think they did 15,000 x 265 days 🤣
The same rubber chicken for both patients and staff
That food look Bland as F@#$ and I would definitely not consumed that food at all WTH
I'm French, I've been few times hospitalised / visited family & friends in hospital. Trust me, the food is extremely bad / tasteless.
I believe it's cost saving coz I'm pretty sure they could do healthy died food.
Yes some hospitals may provide better food but they are rares.
So forget the nice morning coffee, the freshly bake bread / croissants, thick soup, grilled meat, etc.
That's not heatlhy food at all. Look at the last plate with the meatballs. Absolutely no vegetables / vitamins.
The food sucks! I have been hospitalized in France. Not what this video is showing!
My mother-in-law fell at her home and refused to eat at the hospital. So, we took her home and at 94 years old still cooks for herself. We buy her groceries and pay for housekeeping.
For me, the hospital meal impression has always been unappetizing, tasteless, and blant.