Tag: Cooking

25. \\Food Technology\\ – T1 Week 6

Malo e lelei, Reader.

For food technology (This week Monday), Group 2 were assigned to bake Pizza (!).

What we did first as we walked into class, was that we had to do our daily Monday routine and pack our bags away in a small cub to get it out of view. We then sorted our groups out by writing the roles of those who were determined on what obligation they should take over, on a whiteboard. The groups are still the same, but the jobs of the kitchen just keep rotating its way. That day, I was the Kitchen Hand, the one who cleans after the baker (Kitchen Porter) – so I don’t exactly know what the ingredients included in the pizza method are.

The skills that were used as we baked were; Kneading the pizza dough, cleaning as we worked, measuring the right ingredients for the wanted outcome, using the oven properly, and working together as a team.

We half’ed the pizza dough into thirds and helped ourselves to make our own pizza for ourselves. Here’s the mathematics part though, so Group 2, food technology students, has 15 people in total. 15 divided by 5 is the equal amount that’s enough for 3 people per group. There are 5 stations In the food tech kitchen which in conclusion of this part is saying that is enough for all divided people (the three lot) to have their own stations in their group of THREE (I hope I explained well, I’m try’na avoid being vague with my explanation.). -So that’s why we separated our dough into three because there are three people (who are my great friends :).) working at my assigned position scullery.

Frankly, I found it tough making the pizza, because the dough was honestly oily which made the tomato paste abscond off lightly. I attempted to make the type of tomato pie with cheese stuffed into the crust – so a cheese crust'(ed) pizza variety. We unfortunately didn’t have that much cheese to cope with because the teacher tried to save more for subsequent classes, so we tried to use as little cheese possible and was hyper-vigilant with what we’re doing.. to not only make sure that we don’t accidentally wreck our hard work process, but also to equivalently use the ratio of the cheese so we could have virtuous pizzas for our presentation and its appearance. (So the person looking at the Pizza may be fooled to think that it taste great).

Ethically, the whole of group 2 could agree with me that the pizza we’ve made with the same recipe tasted like a fifty-fifty between the scale of scrumptious and disgusting. The pizza’s taste wasn’t as savory as our hypothesis compromised, but the presentation looked fortunate.

I would like to show what others made in tech (Since the person who ‘brang’ the camera only took photos of the boys stations) but the photos are still being transferred in the people who attend group 2’s camera rolls (I’ll try update this sooner or later). Here’s (for reference) the pizza we’ve tried to recreate though:

That’s it for this post! Comment down your thoughts about my experience, also please correct my grammar/writing within this post..I hope you understood what I’ve constructed and remember, God loves you and Jesus does too. Their love is unconditional.

Ngā Mihi Nui

Trinity

 

 

25. COOKING PRACTISE – Technology! T1

Kia Ora, Reader.

(CONCEPT: Every Monday,  Edmund Hillary School, well the Senior part of the school (Year 7’s & 8’s), visits Papakura Intermediate for Technology. Tech is about teachers who teach students alternative work that isn’t exactly a class/subject included in the students own academy (as far as my knowledge goes, so accordingly). So,  5 different schools visit Papakura Intermediate per day -(Implying there, for example; on Monday Edmund Hillary School stops by to learn over then on Tuesday another school goes. It keeps going like so), to acknowledge useful purposes that’ll obliging for future ado.)

WALT:

In Tech, We Are Learning How To – COOK/BAKE as a group and comprehend to; Clean our hands/kitchen once we start and finish, also flawlessly setting up our station well to prepare for next weeks performance in an attempt to cook.

On Monday, we (group 2) rehearsed on how to get to our stations approximately immaculate so for next week, when we’re actually preparing to get our main work together, so we know what to do in sequence for next Monday. Our learning intention is to also use our manners when accidentally bumping into somebody if you rushed to get the ingredients at the main kitchen (- that’s the Sous Chef’s job – the person who’s in charge of getting the ingredients straight and taking care of their station/group. Basically the Executive Chef) for your provision.

WHAT:

We Have Achieved This when we can identify the main highlights by making sure to have fun with friends and using up your schedule at cooking class while you can to relish within your time there –  not only about having fun is the first spotlight, but its also about what you’ve learnt during so. Next week Monday is the day when Group 2 really cooks…

and the thing they’re frying is a secret. Your hint is that: you could fry it.

Let me know if you have a clue of what we’re going to produce next Monday! Comment it down below.

That’s all for today – c’ya next post, bye! (I hope you understood what I was inferring there) 🫶

24. Chemical Engineering

Kia Ora.

On Thursday, we did Chemical Engineering. We did two experiments on ice, and I’ll explain what we did on the first experiment.

Around 9:23, Tanya called out numbers like 1, 2 , and 3. (That represents the three people per group.) I was number one, a guy in my group was 2, and my friend was 3. First, Tanya called every number one from each group to get up and get a paper cup for this interesting experiment. Then she called for number two from each group to get the cup and fill it up with three teaspoons that equals to a tablespoon of salt, and then afterwards, she finally called for all threes from each group to stand and get some ice from a cooler.

I was already planning my hypothesis, and was thinking that salt would melt ice faster. I had no clue what was happening next. Then she did the calling numbers again to get up and get string, and another string of wool. I got it and then we started our test. She told us to get a pinch of salt and sprinkle it on the ice cube, looking at the reaction we’ve gotten out of it, I was rather surprised, it was meant to keep it cooler faster but the ice just melted slowly. Then, she told us to ‘try’ holding the ice up with string. We did that and the ice kept slipping off, after that one, she called to try holding it up with the wool string. And, fortunately, it held up for a bit, but it was better than the string. That’s because the wool has layers that are better than a thin, pathetic string. Learning from that, apparently salt keeps ice cooler. Our ice was melting slowly because of our ‘body heat’, and that was incorrect – It was the salt melting it, and none of us knew until today.

Then, after the first experiment, we had another one waiting ahead of us, it was better than the first. I thought we only had one experiment test, not two. (the unfortunate side of the first test though, is that I had reactions from the salt, that wasn’t so fun 🙁 .)

When Tanya was pulling out ingredients for the second test, people were noticing that the ingredients were rather unexpected. Some people like me were guessing that we were making Ice cream, turns out that we were correct. I was filled with excitement, because I wanted to know what it was like making it. We had a large plastic bag and a small one that could fit in it. First, we filled the large bag with 6- 9 cups of ice, and ⅓ of the salt. Then we filled the small bag with 1 tsb of sugar. We had to times each ingredient by three, so we did 3 tsb of sugar. then we did ¼ tsp of flavour, our group did three each, then we did the milk and cream which was half a cup. We mixed it till it was properly stirred.

 

When we finished making the ice-cream, we put it in the large bag filled with ice then massaged the exterior of it till the ice cream turned into solid cream. We sorted our cups and had sporks (fork and spoon) to enjoy our ice cream.

Heres our DLO below!! Thanks for reading, bye!