Welcome to the first day of Foods and Nutrition 1

When you're in the kitchen do you feel like Lindsay Bluth-Funke,

 

Or Carl Weathers??

Whatever your skill level I am here to help! If you were in my classroom, I'd make you watch Lindsay cook and list the good and the bad about what she does. You can do that on your own. I counted 5 good and 5 bad.

Answers:
Lindsay:
-She wore an apron! (yay! An apron is for more than protecting your clothes from food, it's about protecting the food from your clothes. Just think about how many kids you hug, dirty laundry you carry in your arms, push-ups you do on a dirty floor... your clothes are germy and you don't want those germs in your food)

-Using appropriate pot (there's a lot of soup, I mean hot ham water, the pot is big enough to hold it. When choosing pots, you don't want it to full since it might boil over. Her's might be too small but it's pretty big. She probably has too much water but we'll give this one to her.  You don't want it too small because it's too easy to burn.

-Handles turned the right way (this is more important with saucepans because they have longer handles  but again, I'm really giving this girl the benefit of the doubt. It's easy to bump a handle sticking out or for a child to grab it and pull it down)

-Using appropriate long handled wooden spoon (The spoon is long enough to get to the bottom of the pot. This way she can be sure that no ham will burn to the bottom.)

-Using hot pads (almost everybody has forgotten to use a hot pad before. It hurts.

Bad:
-Opened lid toward herself (Steam gets a LOT hotter than water. To avoid burn, open lid slowly and away from you so the steam doesn't touch you.

-Hair down (This should go without saying, pull your hair back. Unless your family enjoys a strand or two in their meal... I keep a clip on my apron so I always have something available to hold my hair back)

-Long sleeves (probably not as big of a problem in your own home as it was with 9th graders, but just think about everything your sleeves touch, usually the same as your hands, and you wash your hands throughout the day but not your sleeves. Baggy jacket/sweater sleeves are the worst! At least hers were tight)

-In the second segment she is stirring with a spoon rest. (It's important to use each utensil properly and for what it was intended for)

-Serves Buster with the same spoon she's stirring with. (If you're going to do this, you might as well just spit in the food before serving it. It's the same thing. Gross. If you need to taste test it, use a spoon- only once. Get a new spoon each taste test.)

Did you catch anything I missed?