sigh, food tech lessons

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Sent ds in with ingredients for fruit cake. He's brought home a cake that is almost raw! What exactly are they teaching them? You would think the teacher would help them to check food is cooked properly.
The foxes will be stuffed full tonight.

The example of when to thicken a sauce and how is open to debate - the process may well have been: research, comparison, draw conclusions , test. - so they researched one or more methods and tested one...just not the same one as in the video

nope, is was 'watch this video and take notes' followed by 'this is the method we are doing'.

We spoke to her food tech teacher ourselves. To find out why, he didn't really have an answer.

There may be a debate about how to thicken a sauce. But, The flour needs to be cooked through, or the sauce will taste like raw flour.

I am not saying they aren't doing a hard job. I imagine many kids don't have basic skills and it's a hard job. But that doesn't mean everything they are teaching is right or are always right themselves.

Perhaps we are lucky. We pay a fee for the whole year and that covers the ingredients. They have assistants, large rooms and spare rooms so that there is time to clear up.

I had amazing Home Ec classes back in the day - our teacher was a cross between Delia and Mary Berry

She taught us some great basic meals, starting with scrambled eggs, omelette then things like spag Bol, chilli, stews, casseroles, soups. We also baked bread, pastry, scones and only when we were quite advanced did she let us loose on fruit cake or profiteroles. Have to say I am very thankful to have had such a good teacher.

Surely this is the kind of stuff you learn at home though isn't it ?!

It sounds a bit like an impossible task really from the descriptions on this thread. Just goes to show it's really important to teach them at home as well.

This is what I've done with my kids and they are pretty good cooks. Most recently my 12 year old son came home with his vegetable and pasta soup after a food tech lesson and said to me, "I don't think my food tech teacher really knows how to cook mum!" Apparently they had put all the ingredients in at once, not fried off the onions and carrots or anything (resulting in chunks of lightly boiled onion floating in it) and he knew it was wrong. Also the first thing he did to it was add salt.

In another lesson his teacher insisted his red salad pepper was a chili and wouldn't be persuaded otherwise.