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Foods and Nutrition 10 The Link 2013

Foods and Nutrition 10 First Assignment: Welcome!

Welcome to The Link! Choosing to complete courses through Distributed

Learning is an exciting choice! You have the opportunity

to complete work at your own pace, at times of the day

that work for you.

You may be thinking “Foods and Nutrition online –

huh?”, and that’s okay. This is how we can make the

course work:

You need a camera to capture some of your kitchen adventures

As we won’t be working in a kitchen together, you will need to document some of your attempts,

successes and failures. Pictures will need to be shared with me, but it doesn’t have to be a fancy

camera – a cell phone camera will work.

You need someone who will be your food critic: to try some of your recipes and provide

feedback

This can be a parent, a sibling, a friend… someone who will taste what you have prepared and

provide written feedback that will be submitted to me

If both or either of these are not possible for you, please contact me (Emily Kirzinger) at

[email protected] to discuss other options regarding the delivery of this course.

As you will be using your home kitchen for food preparation, students will bear the cost of

supplies.

For success in any Distributed Learning course, you also need to do the

following:

Communicate: It is essential you communicate with your teacher(s) when

you have questions. If you don’t ask, we don’t know! Send an email as

soon as you have a question, and you will receive a response within one

school day. If your teacher emails you, please respond in a polite manner

using proper language (i.e., capitalize “I”) within a reasonable timeframe.

Make sure you state your name and which course you are working on.

Read Carefully: Since you don’t have a teacher in front of you explaining the instructions, it is very

important to read instructions carefully to make sure you are meeting the learning outcomes for the

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course. If you don’t understand any of the instructions, please ask! This is especially true when following

a recipe!

Engage: Success in Distributed Learning depends on you, the student, being self-motivated and being

interested in completing your work. No one can force you to do this: you must make the choice to log

into the program on a regular basis and submit work (in this case, get in the kitchen and (literally!) get

cooking! You have to eat, right?). The Link expects you will be logging in on a regular basis and setting

and meeting reasonable goals. Failure to do so may result in withdrawal from the course(s).

You have made the first step by reading this! Now, keep reading to begin the first assignment for Foods

and Nutrition 10. Read carefully. When you are done, follow the instructions for handing your first

assignment in to the teacher and moving forward in the course.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Emily Kirzinger,

Foods and Nutrition 10 Teacher

This is me, enjoying some fruit in Milan, Italy.

The pizza is very good there, too!


Foods and Nutrition 10 First Assignment: Personal Survey

Ah, food and nutrition. Such an interesting topic! We all have to eat, but what we choose to eat, when,

how it is prepared is up for debate. What makes a good pizza, for example? Some people think it should

be deep dish, loaded with toppings, dripping with cheese. Others prefer the simpler, Naples-style of

fewer toppings and a dusting of cheese, to let high quality ingredients do the talking.

These questions will help me to understand why you want to take this course and get to know you a

little better.

Obviously, there can be no right or wrong answers to these questions. You will receive full marks by

doing the following:

Answering all parts of the question, in detail

Answering in complete sentences, using proper spelling, grammar and sentence structure

Showing that you have given your answers some thought

You can answer all questions for this first assignment in a separate document. Number carefully.

1. Which type of pizza is your favorite, and why? If you don’t like any pizza, explain why.

2. What is your favorite meal, from start to finish? Include any appetizers, beverages and desserts.

3. What foods do you really dislike, and why? Have you always disliked them?

4. What foods do you eat on a regular basis?

5. What is your favorite food or meal to cook or prepare?

6. Do you have any food allergies?

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Left: Chicago-style deep

dish pizza

Right: Naples (Italy) style

thin crust pizza

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7. List everything that you ate yesterday, and the approximate times you ate. (If you can’t

remember, list everything for today and enter it in the assignment tomorrow). Include

quantities.

8. Does your family or you have any cultural or ethnic foods that they enjoy eating?

9. Who does the shopping and meal planning in your home?

10. What is your experience with cooking and preparing foods?

11. As you will be working in your home kitchen, please explain the space to me. Is it large? Do you

have a dishwasher? Do you have a stove/oven/microwave? Please take a picture of your kitchen

space and insert it here.

12. Have you ever had a job in the food industry? Please explain.

13. Our culture celebrates often with food. Think of a happy “food” memory, and explain it to me.

For example, a surprise birthday cake, a meal someone prepared for you, trying a new

restaurant, or a holiday meal with family.

14. Why do you wish to take this course?

15. What do you wish to learn from this course?

16. Is there anything I need to know about you?


Foods and Nutrition 10 First Assignment: Kitchen Safety and Sanitation

No one wants to prepare food, cook food, eat food, or hang out in a gross kitchen. And no one wants to

end up in the hospital instead of eating their tasty meal. So let’s make sure we know how to be in the

kitchen and not get hurt, okay?

Watch these introductory videos:

Kitchen Safety and Sanitation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kay5KCqN7Yo

Kitchen Attire

Just as you don’t wear a wedding dress to go for a run, you need

to cook and prepare food in proper attire.

Proper kitchen attire includes the following:

Nothing big and loose or dangling (loose sleeves or things

hanging down can get dirty and/or catch fire)

Hair tied back or in a hair net (no one wants your hair in

their food)

An apron (so your own clothes don’t get dirty)

Non-slip shoes (so you don’t slip) with closed toes

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This

Not This

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kay5KCqN7Yo


Hand Washing

Clean hands are essential for working in kitchens, as well as just stopping the spread of germs in our

society. Expect to wash your hands several times per day, and several times during food preparation.


Equipment Safety

When you turn 16, you are eligible to learn how to drive. But then you have to learn how to operate a

motor vehicle. Kitchens are similar: you need to learn how to work your equipment.

General tips:

Make sure all wires, cords and plugs on your appliances are not frayed and that the plugs have 3-prong grounded connections. This would include coffee makers, toasters, blenders, microwaves, mixers, etc.

Don’t use extension cords. You can obtain a junction box that has built-in GFI (ground fault interrupters). This will allow you extra plug in space and the GFI will kick in if there is a power shortage. Helps avoid water/electrical shock accidents.

Get rid of any appliance that is broken or damaged. New ones are very inexpensive these days. If a new one would bust your budget, try garage and tag sales (just make sure you’re not buying somebody else’s broken appliance).

Be sure appliances are unplugged before touching sharp edges (blenders, can openers, mixers, etc.).

Never stick a fork in a toaster to retrieve trapped toast – you may get shocking results.

Always be sure the blender is unplugged before touching the blades.

Ovens and Stoves

Your oven is what you use for baking. You need to know how to turn it on, how to

read the temperature (is it Fahrenheit or Celsius) and how to clean an oven (an

unclean oven becomes a serious safety risk as the old, burnt food could catch

fire). When you open the oven door, wait a few seconds for the hot air to release.

If you stick your head or hands in right away, you will feel the gush of hot air – not good.

Always remember to use oven mitts to pull hot dishes out of the oven.

The stovetop is the burners on top. Are they gas or electric? Electric is a metal ring

that will heat up (left, top). Gas shows a blue flame that heats up the burner (left,

bottom).

Usually stove tops have 4 burners (2 small, 2 large), but some models have up to 6

burners and a flat grill space. (Fancy schmancy!). Hopefully you have already

learned that these burners get very hot and you DON’T touch them. If you haven’t

learned that by now….um, well….

The higher you set the stove dial, the more heat you are producing. High heat is used for

boiling, low for simmering or keeping warm, and in-between for various cooking

methods, like a low boil or a medium heat.


Knives

A knife is one of the most important kitchen tools. A good knife is a great

thing… it slices cleanly and easily. Have you ever used a dull knife? I had to

saw through a tomato once… it wrecks the tomato and is a safety hazard,

as a dull blade can catch and slip. That poor tomato.

Using a knife properly will prepare your food better and be safer in the kitchen. Proper knife care

includes:

Keeping your knives sharp, either professionally or using a knife sharpener properly

Storing your knives properly in a knife block or knife rack. When you throw your knives in a

drawer, they dull more quickly and there is a greater chance you will cut yourself reaching in to

grab one

Hand washing your knives and drying them immediately to prevent any rusting

Chopping and cutting slowly and carefully

Cut away from your body

Make sure your hands are dry and your cutting surface is not slippery

Watch what you are doing at all times – if you are distracted, stop cutting

Watch this YouTube video about basic knife cutting, or The Pinch and The Claw:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq0FH2IGPAw

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There are different knives

for different purposes, but

we will get to that later.

A good 5” (or so) knife

works for almost anything

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq0FH2IGPAw


Food Storage

Food that goes bad is:

a) Gross to look at

b) Smelly

c) A waste of money

d) Dangerous to cook with or eat

e) All of the above

If you answered e), you’re right! If you didn’t - seriously?

Proper food storage has many benefits. I don’t know if you have ever had to pick up a month old, mushy

cucumber from a produce drawer, but you only want to handle that ick once. [Emily shudders at the

memory]

Read through the following to understand how to store food to keep it fresh, tasty, and ready to

prepare.

Ew. Just ew.


Cross-Contamination

Some foods are naturally much higher in bacteria than others, and need to be handled with extra care. Raw meat and fish are the most important ones to look out for, as the bacteria found on them can easily lead to food poisoning if it’s allowed to spread to other foods. Imagine for a minute that you’re cooking grilled chicken and salad for dinner. If you chop up the raw chicken on a chopping board before cooking it, then use that same knife and board to prepare your salad, the salad will be contaminated with bacteria from the uncooked chicken. This is called ‘cross-contamination’ and here are the golden rules for avoiding it:

• Store raw meat and fish on the bottom shelf of your fridge, and store food that is ready to be eaten whether it’s salad, cheese, dairy or cooked food on the shelves above. This is so the juices from the raw foods can’t drip onto cooked foods and cross-contaminate them.

• If you’re preparing raw meat, chicken or fish on a chopping board, wash the board, the knife and your hands thoroughly afterwards so that the bacteria doesn’t spread onto food that is cooked or ready to eat. Some restaurants have different coloured chopping boards for raw and cooked foods, or for meat, fish and veg, to minimise the chances of this happening. These are readily available from loads of home and kitchen stores so you might like to try this at home.

• Be aware that there may be germs and bacteria in the soil on any dirty muddy vegetables. Peel them in the sink, rinse them well before use then remember to clean the sink and your hands before you do anything else.

• Once meat, chicken or fish are cooked, lift them out of the pan and serve them using clean implements that haven’t touched any raw food. This applies to barbecuing too; it’s a scary thing to see the same tongs that put raw chicken on the barbecue one minute, lift off cooked chicken the next! © Jamie Oliver: JAMIESHOMECOOKINGSKILLS.COM


Handling Hot Food

Rule #1: Don’t burn yourself.

Rule #2: See rule #1.

But, to be more specific, when dealing with hot food in the

kitchen:

Always use oven mitts to pick up things from the oven

or stove when the handle may be hot

Open lids away from you, to deflect the steam away

Use two hands to lift heavy pots or pans

Wear an apron and long sleeves to protect against

splatters

Use a cooling rack or a trivet to protect your countertops from burns

Do not leave cooking food unattended

Keep all dish clothes, pot holders and oven mitts away from heat sources so they don’t melt or

catch fire

Wipe up spills on the oven top to prevent old food from catching fire


If something goes wrong….

Keep a fire extinguisher in or near the kitchen, but not near the stove or the heater. Know how to use it.

In case of a grease fire, salt and/or baking soda will help if you do not have a fire extinguisher.

Keep emergency numbers handy – 911 is easy to remember, but phone numbers to Poison Control might take longer.

Scalding is one of the most common injuries in the kitchen. Make sure to turn pot handles away from the front of the stove and away from little curious hands.

Scalding can occur from hot steam as well. Be careful when lifting lids from hot food (including opening that hot bag of microwave popcorn)!

Consider taking a local first aid course – in Victoria, St John’s Ambulance runs courses quite frequently: http://www.sja.ca/Pages/default.aspx

Watch this quick YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n55G1pM0jY4

Invest in a basic first aid box for your home. According to the Mayo Clinic, a home first aid

kit should contain:

Adhesive tape Antibiotic ointment Antiseptic solution or towelettes Bandages, including a roll of elastic wrap (Ace, Coban, others) and bandage strips (Band-Aid,

Curad, others) in assorted sizes Instant cold packs Cotton balls and cotton-tipped swabs Disposable latex or synthetic gloves, at least two pair Duct tape Gauze pads and roller gauze in assorted sizes First-aid manual Petroleum jelly or other lubricant Plastic bags for the disposal of contaminated materials Safety pins in assorted sizes Scissors and tweezers Soap or instant hand sanitizer Sterile eyewash, such as a saline solution Thermometer Triangular bandage Turkey baster or other bulb suction device for flushing out wounds

Medications

Activated charcoal (use only if instructed by your poison control center)

http://www.sja.ca/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n55G1pM0jY4


Aloe vera gel Anti-diarrhea medication Over-the-counter oral antihistamine, such as diphenhydramine (Benadryl, others) Aspirin and nonaspirin pain relievers (never give aspirin to children) Calamine lotion Over-the-counter hydrocortisone cream Personal medications that don't need refrigeration If prescribed by your doctor, drugs to treat an allergic attack, such as an auto-injector of

epinephrine (EpiPen, Twinject, others) Syringe, medicine cup or spoon


Foods and Nutrition 10 First Assignment: Kitchen Safety and Sanitation Questions

Continue your answers in the document you created for questions # 1-16.

17. Watch this video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA8IW5abQTg

From what you have read and watched already, list at 12 examples of what this cook should

not be doing. Number your list please.

18. Create a PowerPoint or other digital presentation summarizing the material you have learned in

this section. Your presentation should include:

a. Headings and key points

b. For each section, at least one photo showing what to do and one photo showing what

not to do (“Do”s and “Don’t”s)

c. Proper spelling, grammar and sentence structure

d. Organization

e. Visual appeal

Feel free to include any other items you feel are relevant to kitchen safety and sanitation.

When you have completed Questions 1-18, email them to the instructor (Emily Kirzinger,

[email protected]). Submit the appropriate registration forms to the office (see website for

details).

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