Cooking techniques and proficiency
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Why this why now
Being proficient with a range of food skills enables us to prepare and cook more complex recipes, extending our repertoire. This confidence also enables us to successfully modify recipes for health, variety and preference. Progressing from Year 7, through the thread of Food preparation and cooking, pupils continue to refine their food skills, embedding The science of food, and Sensory evaluation learning, leading to more independent work. In Year 9 the focus is on greater precision and accuracy in preparation and cooking, and the exploration of food science in practice.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can follow set procedures to ensure safe and hygienic preparation and cooking.
- Pupils can wash-up and wipe work surfaces, to prevent bacteria from spreading.
- Pupils can set up and undertake different sensory evaluation tests.
- Pupils can use the 'bridge hold' and 'claw grip' knife techniques.
- Pupils can use the hob and oven, using oven gloves.
Threads
Why this why now
Being proficient with a range of food skills enables us to prepare and cook more complex recipes, extending our repertoire. This confidence also enables us to successfully modify recipes for health, variety and preference. Progressing from Year 7, through the thread of Food preparation and cooking, pupils continue to refine their food skills, embedding The science of food, and Sensory evaluation learning, leading to more independent work. In Year 9 the focus is on greater precision and accuracy in preparation and cooking, and the exploration of food science in practice.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can follow set procedures to ensure safe and hygienic preparation and cooking.
- Pupils can wash-up and wipe work surfaces, to prevent bacteria from spreading.
- Pupils can set up and undertake different sensory evaluation tests.
- Pupils can use the 'bridge hold' and 'claw grip' knife techniques.
- Pupils can use the hob and oven, using oven gloves.
Cooking techniques and proficiency
This unit extends pupils' cooking techniques, focusing on their food skill proficiency. Pupils develop food skills and apply their nutrition understanding. Recipe modification is undertaken, through nutritional analysis, and the functional properties of key ingredients are analysed.
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