Professional Cooking 1
Credits: 3
Course Number: 10-316-122
Course Description
10-316-122 PROFESSIONAL COOKING 1 ...basic skill sets of professional cooking: sanitation, knife skills, heat transfer, protein cooking, vegetable cooking, working in teams, mise en place, sauce production and starch cookery. (Requisite: Must take with 10-316-119, Food Theory)
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What will I learn?
- Apply appropriate methods for handling knives.
- Explain inspection standards and grading classification for meat and seafood products.
- Identify primal and retail meat cuts, poultry classifications, and the different varieties of fish and shellfish.
- Prepare a variety of meat, poultry, and seafood recipes.
- Prepare a variety of vegetables, potatoes, and other starches recipes.
- Prepare a variety of fruits, salads, and salad dressings recipes.
- Prepare a variety of stocks, soups, sauces, and gravies recipes.
- Integrate proper sanitation techniques.
- Manage mise en place techniques.