LectureKitchenReadingReviewPowerPoint
Cooking and Professional Cooking
- Define Cooking
- Define Professional Cooking
Safety and Sanitation
- Review Safety and Sanitation Standards
- Discuss Hand Washing
- Discuss Proper Glove Use
- Review the 8 Knife-Safety Rules
Basic Knife Skills
- Name the parts of a knife and describe the function of each.
- Describe how to care for knives safely and properly.
- Describe how to sharpen and hone knives.
- Explain the importance of the cutting surface during cutting tasks.
- Name the basic knife cuts and describe them.
Eggs and Breakfast
- Understand the composition of eggs.
- Identify the market forms of eggs.
- Prepare eggs by boiling, frying, poaching, and scrambling.
- Prepare pancakes, waffles, crêpes, and French toast.
- Use basic cooking techniques to prepare other breakfast dishes, including meats, potatoes, and cereals.
- Discuss breakfast beverages, coffee and tea.
Objectives
Every Student will:
- Demonstrate compliance with The Uniform Standard
- Demonstrate compliance with Safety, Sanitation and Personal Hygiene Standards
- Demonstrate the required level of preparation
- Practice the principles of Mise en Place
- Demonstrate good sustainability practices through waste control, energy and water conservation
- Demonstrate safe and appropriate knife skills
- Demonstrate proper equipment selection and use
- Demonstrate familiarity with daily recipes and scaling as needed
- Demonstrate proper seasoning with salt
- Demonstrate tasting and palette development skills
- Demonstrate appropriate plating of finished dishes, including temperature, plate size and portion size
Following any instructor, demonstration EACH student demonstrates:
- Proper Hand Washing
- Proper Kitchen Setup
- Proper Station Setup
- Preparing Vegetables for Cutting
- Washing
- Peeling
- Use a peeler
- Use a paring knife
- Introduction to Knife Skills
- Appropriate knife selection
- Honing a knife
- Proper knife grip
- Proper guiding-hand position
- Proper chopping and mincing
- Parsley
- Garlic
- Proper Slicing
- Chiffonade
- Rondelle and Bias
- Ripple and Gaufrette (Mandoline)
- Oblique
- Kitchen “Juliennes”
- Cooking Eggs in the Shell
- Cooking Eggs outside the Shell
- Evaluate the quality of prepared eggs.
- Identify and prepare a variety of breakfast batter products.
- Evaluate the quality of prepared breakfast batter products.
- Assigned Reading:
- Additional Reading:
- the Professional Chef, 9th Ed. CIA: Ch. 4 & Ch. 26
- How to Cook the Perfect Fried Egg
- Homework:
- Review the Recipes for Next Class.
