[arista]

If we do not teach the kids to cook
we are failing.




7 Years old
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...ing-food-waste

[Alf]

One of my favourite lessons at school. That and PE.

[Oliver_W]

Cooking and basic Houseology (changing lightbulbs, working a washing machine, etc) should be in the curriculum tbh.

[Zizu]

Very odd given that food tech teachers are as rare as Dodo droppings !

We have two PE teachers for our food tech lessons


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[Alf]

They get sll their schooling from the television these days. In my day it was Keith Floyd and Deliah Smith. Today they have numerous cooking shows and chefs.

[bots]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Cooking and basic Houseology (changing lightbulbs, working a washing machine, etc) should be in the curriculum tbh.

when was the last time you changed a bulb?

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

when was the last time you changed a bulb?

Surely he'd be living in darkness if he hadn't changed one?

[bots]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Surely he'd be living in darkness if he hadn't changed one?

my point being led bulbs go on for years compared to the old filament bulbs

[Oliver_W]

Years, not forever. And lamps don't always come with bulbs, especially if you get them from an antique shop

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

my point being led bulbs go on for years compared to the old filament bulbs

I do have a Lava lamp that I have to change the bulb in every few months

[Oliver_W]

Did you know the dark smudges in lightbulbs are remanants of actual darkness?

When you switch a light on, it sucks all the darkness in the room inside it, making it appear lighter, and releases all the darkness when you switch the light off. Sometimes bits of it get stuck in the bulb.

[bots]

i realised recently that i still have an outside lamp with a filament bulb that has been in place for at least 25 years and is rusted shut and still going strong

[arista]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Very odd given that food tech teachers are as rare as Dodo droppings !

We have two PE teachers for our food tech lessons

Yes to many Fat kids
are appearing,
Reports say


The Labour Party
must bring it in to every school

Learning Basic Cooking Skills
for their Future survival

[joeysteele]

A very good plan.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I do have a Lava lamp that I have to change the bulb in every few months

Neem and Gav are quite the socialite talk of the town in Cork with their weekend Curry Supper dinner parties and lava lamp. Such lighting luxuries that the average Corkonian can only but dream of...


Neem and Gav, yesterday

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Neem and Gav are quite the socialite talk of the town in Cork with their weekend Curry Supper dinner parties and lava lamp. Such lighting luxuries that the average Corkonian can only but dream of...


Neem and Gav, yesterday

I do love a curry supper tbf

[UserSince2005]

they can bring it back, our kids need to know how to cook onion bhajis and mama jerk chicken

[arista]

Originally Posted by Alf

They get sll their schooling from the television these days. In my day it was Keith Floyd and Deliah Smith. Today they have numerous cooking shows and chefs.

Yes Clever Cooking Videos
could be used in addition
to Practical Real Cooking Lessons

[arista]

Originally Posted by UserSince2005

they can bring it back, our kids need to know how to cook onion bhajis and mama jerk chicken

Yes all nations
should be included

[Crimson Dynamo]

Used to watch Farmhouse kitchen at lunchtimes when i was at school. Yorkshire TV show which was part educational.

[Zizu]

Our food tech lessons are only an hour long so they don’t really get to cook proper meals .. more like scones , flapjacks etc

Oh and a few lessons on how to ‘create’ your own sandwiches !!

Loads of theory


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[bots]

Can you make doughnuts like fanny's?

Youtube video

[Crimson Dynamo]

My mum taught me the basics like how to make porridge, omlettes, scrambled
eggs. How to fry stuff how to prepare veg, how to cook a steak, how to grill and
the like. We have always had a big allotment so i was always down there as a
kid with all my uncles being told how to lift and prepare veg.
Every summer i was down there shelling peas, eating blackberries and goosegoggs, syboes and carrots straight out the ground

Stands to reason dunnit

[bots]

there are step by step guides to do anything on the internet these days

[user104658]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

there are step by step guides to do anything on the internet these days

TBF cooking is a strange one, you can't necessarily get it right just following a guide. Very often if you were to get three different people to follow the same recipe, you'd get three meals of totally different quality... practice and skill come into play a lot in cooking.

Honestly being able to cook to a good standard is a great skill to have but I don't think it can really be taught in schools, a lesson a week or whatever isn't really going to cut it, it's a skill that needs to be "baked in" (excuse the pun) at home which is why unfortunately it's being lost; a lot of parents at this point can't cook from scratch.

It's not a big a problem as it once was though. A lot of pre-prepared food is much more nutritious than it used to be, and it's also (despite the myths) actually all that much cheaper to cook from scratch. For example, a store-bought jar of tomato pasta sauce is MUCH cheaper than the ingredients to make a home-made sauce. Nowhere near as tasty, but often the idea is that families would "save money on food" if they could cook. It's not true. Cooking well from scratch is expensive.