To think that food tech in highschool should teach more than

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How to cook a cheese toasty?

I only had four HE lessons in the 80's (age of equality, did woodwork instead)

Week 1 Chocolate Crispies
Week 2 Vegetable Soup
Week 3 Cheesy Potato Pie (Mash topped with cheese)
Week 4 Fresh fruit Salad

nothing changes

x posted with Cat 64, truly nothing does change!!

My 13yo daughter did lasagne for the whole family at school last week. She iced the christmas cake last term (way better than I'd have done- little icing sugar penguins, presents, fir trees, igloo and a little Inuit person fishing in an ice hole- it was beautiful). She has also made curry and stuffed savoury plaits to name but a few things. It takes inspired timetabling (cookery lessons at her school are always timetabled in consecutive 2 periods running over lunch or break) and an imaginative teacher. She is lucky.

I used to work in a state school with a lovely cookery teacher who used to do all sorts of wonderful things with classes. She would approach the person doing the timetabling to argue for better slots, and really push the boat out wrt what she cooked with them. It takes a special person.

I left school about 5 years ago and Food Tech was nothing like what all of you are describing (either from the past or what your kids are doing now). It was all packaging design, doing surveys of flavour combinations, hardly any cooking at all. It was a state school in a fairly deprived area so maybe they didn't want to ask us to bring too many ingredients in, but I really learned nothing at all in Food Tech. I wish there had been proper Home Economics lessons alongside the carpentry and metalworking.