Teens from across Cornwall have joined Alan Rosenthal for a 5-day extravaganza of food! Learning new techniques, making friends, following health and safety guidance and delivering delicious meals each evening to their families, have all been on the menu!
The Teen Cookery Camp is a new addition to our summer holiday club offering for this year. With an aim to combat boredom, or for teens who have outgrown our other clubs, these sessions provide a challenging and fun environment to gain confidence and learn important life skills. The courses run all day, giving parents a much-needed respite from the school holiday, or a supervised option whilst they are at work.
The sessions have been delivered in small groups, with each student receiving 1-2-1 support and their own cooking station – experiencing what it might be like to be on on The Great British Bake Off! Working from their own station has allowed students to be responsible for its cleanliness and the provided opportunity to use all of the equipment.
During the 5-day course, a range of main meals, snacks and desserts have been produced, with pupils creating their own chocolate mousse, Cornish Fairings, Asian Chicken, salads, bread and more. The menu’s have been created to offer a challenge and the opportunity to learn lots of techniques such as splitting egg whites, peeling, grating, mixing, working with meat safely and making dough.
The small group have gathered around the demonstration area to see each stage of the bake, including viewing a close up of the process on the TV’s above. Once confident with the methods, they have headed off to their own station to follow the instructions and recipes to create the meal for themselves.
This group have thoroughly enjoyed the experience!
If you would like to join us for our next session, have a teenager that would benefit, or even just fancy your son or daughter to bring home a meal for the family to save you cooking for a night – we have two one-day courses coming up. These will be delivered on the 20th and 21st August from 9am-4.45pm. Both have limited availability, but can be booked HERE
