Proposal: How to ensure safe cooking during covid-19 quarantine?

Story topic and angle:

With the spread of coronaviruses in the world, more and more countries have adopted social isolation to slow the spread of disease, and more and more Australians spend more time at home than ever before. Many people work at home, and many bars, restaurants, and other public places are closed, and people start to turn to cook at home. Cooking at home is not just to fill up your stomach, but also a way to relax.

As more and more people are addicted to cooking, more and more people are injured during cooking, such as being scalded by hot oil or other liquids, or being burned during BBQ, etc. However, in this unusual situation, the hospital is a place that is prone to cross-infection. Therefore, according to the current situation, how to ensure the safety of the kitchen and reduce unnecessary infections will become a topic that people are more and more concerned about.

Narrative genre:

Feature story

Selected publications and Target audiences:

This article will be published on Buzzfeed. Buzzfeed is a news aggregation site. It provides reports on a variety of topics, including politics, DIY, animals, and business. The audience of this site is biased towards women, and a younger audience. In general, the main group for cooking is women. And many young people are new to cooking, so they are more likely to be injured when cooking. When these target groups are injured while cooking, they will pay special attention to cooking safety.

There is a lot of content related to COVID-19 on various websites, but there are few articles about cooking safety. While people pay attention to COVID-19, they will also pay attention to other content related to it. The matter of cooking is closely related to everyone’s quarantine life, and it is also something everyone must do at home every day. So readers hope to get suggestions related to cooking safety.

Structure:

First of all, I want to introduce some things that people can do at home in the context of COVID-19. In addition to working, studying, and having fun at home, cooking has also become a way people spend time with. Because people eat every day, more and more people fall in love with cooking. Cooking at home is a way of decompression, as Samin Nosrat (the cookbook writer and host of Netflix’s Salt Fat Acid Heat)said, when trapped in an apartment, cooking and baking has become a good way to get rid of lonely. And cooking also can eliminate her fear and anxiety. Then, I will put some photos of people cooking on Instagram posted by people to attract readers’ attention.

Then I want to introduce a friend of mine, Zheng, who was burned by hot water while cooking. Then put a picture of my friend’s injury. Many people may face the problem of injury due to some incorrect operations when cooking. Then put some images of cooking disaster. According to a ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ news, the injuries suffered during cooking are generally severe, and even these patients will be admitted to the ICU. Then put a statistical chart of daily confirmed cases in Australia. But in this situation, for ordinary people, the hospital is a high-risk place. Many people were initially healthy, but they did not take protective measures when they came to the hospital. It’s easy to get infected. The way to avoid this infection is to ensure cooking safety when people cook at home.

Finally, I want to highlight what you should pay attention to when cooking at home. List related suggestions. And some pictures of proper operation in the kitchen. There will be a video about kitchen safety tips from YouTube.

Source & Multimedia:

• Some screenshots from netizens in #quarantinecooking hashtag on Instagram
• My friend’s injured photo
• Images of Cooking disaster (the source of each image will be credited below the image)
• News report of ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ Sydney’s
•  A statistical chart of daily COVID-19 confirmed cases in Australia from https://www.covid19data.com.au
• I will take pictures of safe cooking and find pictures of safe cooking on the Internet (the source of each image will be credited below the image)
• A video about Kitchen safety tips from YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-b8gb6_vrw&list=WL

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There will be many still images in this article in the form of text + photo. There will also be social media embed in this article. I will insert some screenshots on Instagram. And I will insert a video from YouTube.