Home Cooking
13 skills across 5 areas, in the order you need to learn them. 3 of them end in work you hand in and we mark.
Covers the subject wellWe check the technical side. Whether it's any good is your call
Take the skill check — about 10 minutes13
3
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5
What you'll be able to do
- Heat controlChoose a heat level for a stated outcome and show the result matches it
- BrowningProduce an even brown crust and explain what you did to the surface and the pan to get it
- Judging donenessState how you judged a thing was cooked, and show the cross-section that confirms it
- Resting and carry-overPull something off the heat before its target and land on the target after resting
- Building a pan sauceTurn the residue in a pan into a sauce that coats the back of a spoon
- Reading a recipe criticallyMark up a recipe separating what must be followed from what can be varied, with reasons
- Substituting without breaking itReplace an ingredient you do not have and say what function you were replacing
Where the proof comes from
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Every skill above, ordered by what depends on what, with the projects above that as the evidence you actually did it. We work out where you already are first, so the path skips what you can do.
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