Domestic science atrocity.

[WingBingo]

DS12 cooked food for the first time at school today

This is what the teacher thought was a good idea for them to cook. It really is the end of a loaf, covered in tomato sauce and sprinkled with grated cheese.

I do wonder what was going through their mind when they decided this was a good idea.

Yum.

🤣🤣

My neighbour’s dd cooked baked beans on toast for one lesson 🙄

To be fair, that is a very complex recipe, involving lots of different techniques and cooking methods! It would be difficult to teach that at home.

I wonder what the next lesson will be - making a glass of squash, perhaps?

Cheese on toast was my first cooking lesson in the 90s. We ate it straight away.

Except therewas a fire drill halfway through the lesson, so they were hakf cooked, turned off for 15 mins, then finished off.

I'd say your DS needs domestic science lessons badly lol.

well, I remember our first DS lesson was 'make hot chocolate and toast'
BUT (and I we probably only did it for 5 or 6 terms altogether)
we made shortcrust pastry with many uses thereof
bread rolls
um...a stew...a salad...
in general how to read and follow a recipe (seems obvious but isn't)
also we did theory which covered nutrition and major food groups and food hygiene including methods of food preservation, and why they worked

so all that was actually very useful (and a loooong time ago)

but now my DCs did 'food tech' which was far less useful and included packaging, marketing etc and very little useful cooking/nutrition which is what people actually need

My DD made a sandwich - over two lessons....

we make pizza like this at Scouts, it's good for budget food, making meals from basic odds and ends. the secret is less sauce, more cheese and not burning it.

My first cookery class
( it wasn't called domestic science in the mid 70s )
was toast and a cup of tea

Id say This OP is a step up
Although I remember us all enjoying eating ours in class 😋

When I was a student that was a regular lunch for me! A sprinkle of herbs, and some veg such as onion, sweetcorn, mushrooms or peppers.

Quite tempted to make that with the ends of the loaf I just bought today actually!

My first home economics cooking lesson was a cheese sandwich. At least that one involved some heat!

That looks...interesting! Would love to see the lesson plan behind that!

DS's teacher told the class that chicken needed to be washed under the cold tap before cooking it. When I expressed my horror to DS, said that you should never do that and explained why he relayed it back to the teacher (🤦‍♀️) - who in turn told him to tell me she had been a domestic science teacher for nearly 30 years and she knew what she was talking about 🙄

We also made a cup of tea and toast in 1970s Home Economics when I was around 12. Things got more interesting in the following weeks and months though.

If it's the first time they have cooked,it shows the pupils that a quick meal can be made with very basic ingredients.

The secret to almost everything is more cheese, imo, @SleepingStandingUp! 😂

Ok so maybe I’m expecting too much.

I do think that there are better places to start.

My mother lived in a perpetual state of dread at the thought of what I would bring home from school cookery lessons. I still can’t cook now 🤷‍♀️

First thing I cooked at school was a rhubarb crumble. We used real ovens.

Ours did a fruit kebab. Literally had to take in 5 grapes, an apple, 2 strawberries and a satsuma. Sweet Jesus - what a fucking waste of time (and fruit)!

My friend was stopped in the street by someone at a Food Safety van and told they were in town to spread the message that you shouldn’t wash chicken. She answered “But I’ve never washed chicken!” To which the chap looked appalled and responded “But whyever not? You should have been doing , up until now that was the food safety guidance!” “Well, luckily I never listen to food safety guidance “.

Rock cakes, and ditto.

It’s more about teaching them the basics - in this case how to use a grill. Fruit salad teaches them how to cut up different types of fruit properly. Some children will have no experience of cooking at homes and parents with limited cooking skills so they have to start with the very basics.

It's basic but as other people said teaches basic skills like using a grill.
It also, honestly, is a simple way to teach following a recipe and doing things step by step along with timings (grate cheese while grill heats etc). Obviously cheese on toast is fairly foolproof and you could wing it without needing a list of instructions. But it's an easy way to learn the principle of that before moving on to more complex recipes.

did he bring it home cold??

my favourite thing to cook in Home Ec was chocolate and banana crumble. but yeH, we started with cheese and toast. some girls had never turned on an oven or used a grill as Mummy was always home to do it. I was a working class latch key kid in comparison so was unimpressed by the lesson

@SleepingStandingUp indeed it was. It’s been in his bag all day.

They used the oven.