Course Highlights
  • Read a recipe to make your life easier
  • Keep your food safe from harmful bacteria and disease
  • Save time and reduce stress by preparing ingredients before you cook
  • Confidently and safely use a knife and know how to keep it sharp
  • Use chef skills to build the most flavor in your cooking
  • Stop your food from burning by using deglazing techniques
  • Plate, garnish and present a meal that looks as delicious as it tastes
  • Apply all of these skills by cooking a simple and tasty curry
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum

1 Topic
Welcome to the course & what's in store

12 Topics
What is a Chef?
How to decipher a recipe
Food sanitation and keeping your food safe
Washing raw ingredients
How to measure ingredients
Mise en Place
Key Skill - Mise en Place
Essential knife skills
Understanding seasoning
Building a flavor base
Key Skill - Building a Flavor Base
Deglazing a pan

4 Topics
Applying theory to the cooking process
How to use oil and salt
Creating a flavor base with the correct type of cooking oil
How to add salt to your dish

6 Topics
Cooking one ingredient at a time
When to stir your ingredients and the types of pans to use
What is flavor?
Adding seasoning to a dish
How and why to deglaze
Key Skill - Cooking your Ingredients

7 Topics
Cooking using the whole pan to cook
Using different liquids to deglaze
How to cater to larger groups
Why cutting ingredients consistently matters
What is a sauce?
Reducing a sauce
Avoid burning your dish

3 Topics
Recipe variations and creativity
Tasting as you go
Plating

4 Topics
It's curry time!
Let's get cooking
Final Test
Outro

10 Topics
Navigating the Essential Kitchen Equipment Mini-Series
Primary kitchen appliances
Measuring tools
Knives
Sheering peeling bread knives and zesting
Salad equipment
Pans
Baking equipment
Blending equipment
Odds and ends

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