Professional Cookery Level 3

Start Date

Mon Sep 02 2024

Day / Time

Weekdays

Duration

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Campus

Baltic Campus

Professional Cookery Level 3

The North East is an excellent base for anyone wishing to work as a chef with its growing street-food scene, vibrant café culture and some amazing independent restaurants offering cuisines from around the world.

This course will give you the skills to work at a supervisory level, as a senior chef or specialise in a particular field of catering.

It will offer you hands on practical skills classes with our highly skilled team and exposure to some of the regions most renowned chefs and business owners through specialist workshops, guest chefs, work placements and enrichment opportunities.

You will extend your abilities in key topics required in catering and hospitality such as professional cookery, food hygiene, menu development and costings.

As well as studying essential topics to give you the edge such as nutrition, allergies and culinary terms. All of these will be covered in a broad repertoire of dishes.

On this programme you will develop not only your English terms in culinary skills, but also those of international requirements such as French.

You will undertake modules in the following topics:

Professional Cookery

You will develop a complex skills base in the correct methods of preparing and cooking meat, fish and poultry dishes using different styles and your own adaptation of presentation.

This will also include an extensive variety of accompaniments such as vegetables, sauces and garnishes.

In order to give you a broader transferable skills set you will also develop your work in a range of different pastry products from sweet to savoury.

This is regarded as a must in some industry establishments.

Menu Design and Costings

Designing and costing a menu are key skills all chefs need.

On this course you will learn how to develop menus for a variety of customers and events including preparation for customers with allergies and understanding the fundamentals of nutrition.

This will enhance both your maths and English skills.

Food Hygiene

Working in a safe, hygienic and secure working environment is key in this industry.

On this course you will be able to apply effective food hygiene requirements, whilst undertaking a nationally recognised food hygiene course to really boost your CV.

Baltic Campus