CookFeast

Course Description

Cooking Course Overview

This cooking course is designed to inspire young people to cook for themselves and others with confidence. It supports the Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) Award’s 3 and 6-month skills sections, offering additional tasks for those on the 6-month track.

Course Structure

• Duration: 13 weeks, or 26 weeks with extra tasks
• Content: Each week includes both theory and practical tasks, covering a wide range of skills, kitchen hygiene, safety, and healthy eating.

Course Content

• Topics: Breadmaking, pizza, pasta, soups and salads, sauces, burgers, breadcrumbs and batters, meat cuts, roasts, fish, quiche, cakes.
• Skills: Cooking techniques and methods, knife skills, hygiene, healthy eating, working to time plans, and more.

Important Information

• Parental Consent: Students under 16 need parental consent due to the use of sharp knives, open flames, boiling liquids, and other potential hazards. Please ensure you watch the safety videos and always act responsibly.

Course Materials

• Menu Options: Each week offers a choice of menus, including vegetarian options.
• Equipment Needed:
  • Selection of pots and pans, frying pans, casserole dishes, oven trays, cake tins, Yorkshire pudding tins, oven-proof dishes.
  • Spoons, ladles, tongs, hand whisk, rolling pin.
  • Blender, food processor.
  • Selection of knives, vegetable peeler.
  • Greaseproof paper/baking parchment, kitchen foil, cling film.
  • Temperature probe or meat thermometer.
  • Scales.
  • Kitchen apron, oven gloves, tea towels, kitchen roll.

DofE Support

• DofE Support: This course supports the Duke of Edinburgh Award’s 3 and 6-month skills sections. You can forward your DofE number to us, and we will assess and complete your forms.

By participating in this course, you will develop essential cooking skills, improve your kitchen safety knowledge, and learn to create healthy, delicious meals confidently.