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I_Am_Wrong · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: whatever

Anyone have any good tips about doing a cooking class?

I'm a little worried about the time management of the class since I've never done it before. We have an hour and 50 minutes to fill and we're going to make pancakes. I'm thinking that before we start we need to cover some safety things, go over key vocabulary and so forth. I'm thinking I'll demonstrate what to do first and then let them go at it.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I did my first cooking class on Monday. We made Pineapple Salsa (from the Food section of the Cookbook thingie here at Dave's). It was a big hit with my high school boys.

I did almost all the slicing/chopping at home and put everything in baggies. I left just a little of each ingredient to be cut up in class by one of the boys.

From start to finish, it only took 15 minutes. It left a LOT of time for eating...too much time. Next time I'll do less of the preparation and leave more fruit/veggies for them to slice and chop.

Since pancakes are pretty easy, I suggest you have a follow-up activity to fill out the class time. One idea: have a contest to make the best Snowman pancake. (My mom is a genius at snowmen, Santa Clauses and groundhogs).

Grotto · Joined: 21 Mar 2004

pancakes, bannock, stir fries, banana boats, smores, rice pudding, crepes, apple crisp...tons of stuff you can make in a frying pan over a single burner

celticjay · Joined: 27 Aug 2005

My middle school students (16) and I all made spaghetti, the sauce from scratch. They really enjoyed being masters of their burners. It took about 1 hour and 45 mins.

riley · Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Location: where creditors can find me

My reccomendation is do it yourself at home and time how long it is. Then double the time and that will be how long the lesson could be. A way to save yourself grief is to prep a lot of the ingredients beforehand.

Hotpants · Joined: 27 Jan 2006

I did 2 cooking classes last week with some adults. I prepared an activity worksheet beforehand that would prep them with: countable and uncountable nouns re, 'some water'; containers eg, 'a tin of.../a carton of...'; a jumbled recipe; then we did 5 step instruction sequencing - first... next....etc. We also cooked Korean pancakes afterwards.

Dan The Chainsawman · Joined: 05 May 2005

hmmm.. you might want to prepackage the poritions of what is going to go into the dish prior to cooking it.. That way you can avoid the nightmare of explaining what a smidgeon of this or that is.

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

Whatever you cook, I suggest having atleast one thing Korean so there is something they will be able to eat even if they don't like anything else. Then go crazy with the other stuff and try to open their minds to a bit more of the world of food.

matthews_world · Joined: 15 Feb 2003

Mmm... budae chigae. Buy it at the supermarket in packages already prepped. Separate the ingredients for teaching purposes. Bring in a gas hot plate and skillet. When cooking my own, I usually add baked beans.