The wood stove in the corner of the 5th floor of Ms. Mai Vuong’s family. In the photo, Ms. Vuong’s mother is wrapping banh chung for Tet. At first, the idea of ​​building a wood stove on the 5th floor of Ms. Vuong was opposed by her husband for fear of fire and explosion, causing heat to pour downstairs … But after hearing her persuasion, Ms. Vuong’s husband – an architect, Find out reasonable solutions for the wood stove on the 5th floor of the house. The kitchen was built with refractory bricks by the family, built away from the wall, creating an open slot to reduce the heat of the oven. Kitchen smoke is led up to the roof through a chimney 1m away from the roof. The stove is in a fixed area, the firewood is kept in a separate area to avoid the ashes scattered on flammable items. At the same time, the whole house is equipped with a smoke alarm system, each floor is equipped with a fire extinguisher. The 5th floor area of ​​Ms. Vuong’s family is also a space with an open side, instead of being enclosed in 4 walls. Here, in addition to the wood stove, she also sets a dining table, grows flowers for family and friends to eat, drink tea, and chat with. On the Facebook group, the AHN account said: “My family is okay, but it’s too dangerous for the surrounding houses if anything happens. My house cooks from itself, the electric system switches itself off and cooks at night. After that, you have to unplug all the wires from the socket “. “The front of the house is empty space, there is no house behind the house with 5 floors”, Ms. Vuong explained before the ideas that the kitchen could endanger the surrounding community. The wood stove is located on the 5th floor with open space. After building a kitchen, she returned to her hometown to buy galangal, rice husks, peanut shells, and collect longan firewood from her garden for fuel. The old cast iron pots in the past were also “spared” to Hanoi to cook rice. “I really like the kitchen up here, so every time I have time I go to the 5th floor to cook for family and friends to come and play. I make all the dishes every day from the kitchen, from cooking rice to fish storage, boiling meat, baking dishes … There are rustic dishes that only wood cookers can do, also my friends come to play at home. For example, burnt rice from a cast iron pot, ”shared Ms. Vuong. Thanks to the wood stove, last Tet, her family was able to cook 4 pots of banh chung. From fried beef … … until fried beans are cooked on a wood stove. The kitchen is built of flame retardant material. The wood stove of Ms. Vuong after sharing on Facebook received many compliments and expressed her excitement. There are also many opinions that the wood stove only satisfies the taste of the country for a moment, but it entails many other inconveniences in cleaning the pots, smoke in the eyes, hot when cooking in the summer, especially. especially the risk of fire and explosion. However, for someone who likes country feeling like Vuong, those shortcomings can be completely overcome. “To me, cooking with wood stove is very relaxing and enjoyable” – Ms. Vuong said.

By Klaus-Rainer Jackisch, Mr Köthen is a small, tranquil town in the middle of Saxony-Anhalt. The Rödel bakery has been here for 90 years. The traditional company survived war and socialism. But just a few weeks before the planned anniversary celebrations, Corona could now ensure that the oven goes out forever. At least that is the fear of master baker Frank Schwenke, managing director of the company, which has 14 branches and around 70 employees.

Gastronomy business has collapsed

Annoyed by the Corona policy, Schwenke sent a fire letter to the Federal Chancellor a few weeks ago, which ended with the drastic words: “I’m afraid of the day when I have to tell my employees that the Rödel GmbH bakery will be closed after 90 years is now in bankruptcy. ” The letter also went to the black-red-green state government of Saxony-Anhalt and Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU). The pandemic hit the bakery business badly: Sales collapsed by 20 percent, around 300,000 euros from reserves and private assets are gone. The November and December government aid came very late. Since January there has been nothing left because the operation falls through the grid of the ongoing bridging aid III. High investments in hygiene measures in the catering areas have proven to be unnecessary – because Schwenke is not allowed to open its bakery cafés. This is exactly where the main problem lies for the bakery specialist as well as for most companies in the industry: While the sale of rolls, cakes and other loose baked goods in the pandemic is going very well again after initial hesitation by customers, the important business is with the catering sector collapsed. However, this is of crucial importance in an industry characterized by fierce competition. “Many companies have made high investments in the catering sector in recent years,” says Susan Hasse from the Central Association of the German Bakers’ Trade. “Because only with this second mainstay can you survive the sharp price war with the discounters.”

No hotels to deliver

In fact, the food service sector often accounts for more than half of sales. But it has been missing for months because of the coronavirus pandemic. In addition to selling baked goods, other companies have specialized in catering for parties and family celebrations or delivering to hotels or canteens. Here, too, business collapsed. “We get a lot of letters from our members,” said the association spokeswoman Hasse. “Many people give up because there are hardly any prospects.” Most bakeries are still doing reasonably well compared to pure catering businesses because their counter sales are running smoothly. But overall the situation is already very tense, according to the association. The corona crisis hits the industry in a massive structural change that has been putting the mostly small and medium-sized companies under increasing pressure for years. Nowadays, more and more companies can only survive if they have several branches and an additional business area. Because against the cheap competition of the supermarkets they can not bake.

Fewer and fewer craft businesses

Almost every discounter now has a fresh bread corner and pretends to bake delicious rolls in the supermarket. In fact, it is mostly frozen goods from large bakeries that were produced there on the assembly line. In the market it is then only thawed and baked – all at prices that traditional bakeries cannot keep up with, as the association claims. Today, on “German Bread Day”, people proudly look at around 3200 types of bread in Germany – more than anywhere else in the world. But they would have their price. Company closings are therefore the order of the day even without Corona. Several hundred bakeries give up every year: The number of craft bakeries has fallen in the last 60 years from around 55,000 in the old federal territory to around 10,500 businesses now. The trend continues to decline. The craft businesses currently supply around 45,000 sales outlets, with over 265,000 employees working there.

Heavy sales slump also with confectioners

The situation at the pastry shops is also very tense – i.e. the specialist shops that specialize in the production of cakes and chocolates. It is true that many people tend to have a nice piece of cake, especially in Corona times, and “the companies have also come up with many creative solutions to increase sales over the counter,” says Julia Gustavus, General Manager of the German Confectioners’ Association. But as in the bakery industry, the cafés are also closed here – and that affects almost every confectioner. The industry’s turnover fell by 14 percent last year. For the first few months of this year, the industry association expects slumps of 40 to 50 percent. “The worst thing is the uncertainty of how things will continue,” says Gustavus. For a year now has been investing and experimenting again and again – but all without perspective. “That tires the entrepreneurs, all of whom are passionate about what they do.” Bakers and confectioners now hope that those responsible will accelerate the vaccination rate so that at least the outdoor catering can reopen: “If there is no normalization by June, it will slowly get tight,” says master baker Schwenke from Köthen. He is disappointed in politics. According to his letter, there were good discussions with the Saxony-Anhalt Ministry of Economics, where they are considering an aid fund for the industry. So far, however, no money has flowed from it. The reactions from the Chancellery and the Bavarian State Chancellery, on the other hand, were rather sobering. You would have already written kindly, says Schwenke. But in essence these are all just “irrelevant answers”.

Ms. Mai Vuong said that at first, she only decided to build a stainless steel grill and then decided to build a wood stove. Talking with us, Ms. Mai Vuong (living in Hanoi) said that making firewood in the house is an idea derived from her hobby of baking and cooking dishes with home flavors. On the occasion of fixing the house, she and her husband decided to make the kitchen that they both cherished for a long time. “My childhood is associated with a simple wood stove. But I never thought of building a kitchen in the city like this”, Ms. Mai Vuong said. According to Ms. Mai Vuong, who was born in the countryside, the memories of dishes from the wood stove are always in mind … Wherever you go, you can remember the smell of kitchen smoke in your hands, hair, and food. how to eat so dear In Ms. Mai’s feeling, the food cooked with the wood stove is more delicious than the other kitchen. Building a wood stove in the middle of the city is not easy because the house area is not as large as in the countryside. Initially, Mai Vuong and her husband only intended to make stainless steel portable BBQ stoves. However, after the couple discussed, it was decided to build a stove to cook firewood. “The bricks that we use to build the kitchen are all refractory, the price is 70,000 VND / piece, the mortar is also refractory. The material that makes this stove is different from ordinary building materials” Ms. Mai Vuong expressed. The kitchen is placed at the corner of the wall, built about 3cm from the wall of the house, the oven has a brick outer shell, the inner layer in direct contact with cooking is used with fireproof bricks, above there is a chimney about 1m high with the roof . Before embarking on construction, Ms. Mai Vuong and her husband consulted many samples of fireplaces abroad. Fortunately, my husband is an architect, so it does not take too long to design. After building the kitchen, Ms. Mai Vuong bought galangal, rice husks, peanut shells and picked up firewood from the countryside garden and brought it up. She even brought a set of cast-iron and aluminum cookware from the countryside so that the kitchen in the middle of the street had a picture of the old wood stove. Since the kitchen, Ms. Mai Vuong often cooks dishes for both family and friends. Everyone who enjoys this dish cooked from the wood stove also compliments the delicious kumquat, especially the scorched rice dish cooked in a cast iron pot is loved by friends of Ms. Mai Vuong’s family. Although she has a new kitchen, Mai Vuong’s family still uses two parallel kitchens, the rooftop stove is used when practicing friends on weekends because it is suitable for baking dishes.

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