The Big 5 Skills
5 cooking skills that’ll have you cooking better than your parents!
..where teens can learn to cook restaurant quality meals for the family
Start learning these now!
These 5 skills are easy enough to learn if you want to become a good home chef. And they’ll have you cooking most of the meals on this site like a pro!
Skill 1
Stay out of hospital!
OK, not really a ‘skill’ is it? But staying safe in the kitchen is the most important thing to get good at!
Your no.1 priority is to understand how to avoid injury and poisoning you or your family. You should not cook a thing from this site without learning this first!
You’ve been warned.
Skill 2
Become super-organised
You win or lose at cooking based on how well organised you are. You need to know how to organise yourself, your shopping list, ingredients, work space, washing up space, cooking equipment, knives, table for serving…and more. Or get someone else to do it and enjoy shouting at them!
Skill 3
Knife skills!
Sounds a bit samurai, but this is how to really shine in your kitchen. It won’t take long to learn all you need to become a kitchen knife black belt. People will gasp in awe.
Skill 4
Tasting and flavouring
You can’t cook well until you know how things should taste. As you cook, you can taste and adjust seasoning (salt and pepper) and work out how to balance flavours. We’ll show you how.
Skill 5
Heat management
If you’re cooking something with heat, then you need to become a master of ‘heat management’! You need to understand different ways to heat your food and what they do to the outcome.