Basic Cooking 1

This module introduces participants to foundational cooking skills while building essential self-care and hygiene habits for daily living. Through hands-on cooking activities, participants learn proper hand washing routines, maintaining clean appearance, food hygiene practices, and personal health awareness. Cooking serves as the engaging vehicle for developing these critical daily living competencies that transfer to all aspects of home and community life.

Course Description

1. Learners handle raw food safely, understand risks of contaminated food, rinse food products before consumption, and identify/discard unsafe food.
2. Learners use kitchen utensils and equipment in meal preparation, follow complex recipes, and demonstrate increased independence.
3. Learners use sharp tools carefully, use stove and electrical appliances with care, understand fire risks, and keep kitchen well-ventilated.
4. Learners discuss possible causes and solutions to cooking problems, make informed decisions, and generate solutions independently or with help.
5. Learners recognize how long cooking tasks take, adjust speed to fit time constraints, and manage time for different recipe steps.
6. Learners differentiate appropriate and inappropriate behaviors in kitchen setting, display appropriate behaviors, and understand consequences of inappropriate actions.
7. Learners clean and maintain table effectively and hygienically using cleaning tools after meal preparation.