Kitchen Skills

Safety Rules:

Listen to demonstrations Girls Tie your hair up

Wash Your Hands

Be careful and aware when you are Walk at all using dangerous equipment like

Work Quietly

Equipment

Chef Knife

Wok/Pan

Small Knife

Pairing Knife

Peeler Spatula

Cutting Skills

Mincing
Mincing is a cut designed to make something very small. Things you may want to mince could be garlic for example.

1. Slice the entire clove of garlic. 2. Then slice the clove crosswise. Which will cause even finer mince. 3. Finally run your knife back and fourth across the minced to create an even more an even more finer cut and get rid of any larger pieces remaining.

Whole Slice

Whole Sliced

1. Put the carrot for example in front of you facing horizontal. 2. Cut of the two ends and throw them away. 3. Then cut or chop it like ring shaped which we call whole slice.

Wedges

1. Slice in half. 2. Place the flat side down on your cutting board. 3. Cut it again in half 4. For more smaller ,cut it in thirds from the outside of the potato.

Segment

Segment Cut

How to do a segment cut: 1. Trim the top 2. Trim the bottom 3. Carefully take your knife and begin carving around 4. Trim as much of the pith (white skin) off. Then find a segment and cut to the right of it. 5. Now cut the other side of the orange segment. Carefully cutting left of the second segment. 6. There you have it!

Dice

Dice Cut Finish

Second Step

First Step

For round food(potatoes, carrots etc.):r 1. Cut the vegetable then stack the slices and cut them into long sticks. 2. Gather the sticks and cut them crosswise into cubes. For food like cucumbers Etc.: 1. Slice the cucumber in half 2. Slice into thin strips and then cut crosswise to dice.

Holds

Bridge Hold

Claw Grip

These are two types of holds you can use while cutting.

Clean Up
Equipment for Clean up:

Anti-bacterial Spray

Bowl of water

Tissue paper(not too many)

Detergent

Sponge

How to wash the table?

1. First put three teaspoons of water in a row on the table. 2. Then add detergent into one of the water puddles 3. Then take your sponge and start scrubbing the whole table. 4. After that get two paper towel and wipe and clean the whole thing. 5. Finally add some anti-bacterial spray and wipe it with two paper towels 6. There you have it a clean table.

4Cs
Cleaning
When you have put a raw food on a table you should wash the table before you put fresh food on there

Use the right materials for cleaning and dont put too much tissues and soap etc.

Cooking
-Be careful when you are cooking with heat and dont let the temperature go too high or too low because it will be under cooked or over cooked.

Cross Contamination
Put your raw food separate from cooked food and ready to eat food

Chilling
Cool down your dish and after it has cool down put it right in the fridge

Tips
Be careful when you add frozen things in a hot bubbly water When you have finish cooking, don't put you wok in the sink right away. Cool it down first. Pay attention when you are using sharp equipment Wash your food perfectly before it is being cooked. When you have finished washing the knifes, put the sharp part down not up