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Description

Cooking indoors on gas burners with the emphasis on fresh ingredients, quality, hygiene and teamwork.
Scouts to choose main course in patrols, and budget to less than £2.50 per head.
Scouts to shop for ingredients, and submit receipts for reimbursement.

Resources

Recipe for a main meal - written plainly (amazing how culinary-illiterate scouts can be)
2 Gas Burners per patrol
Metal table per patrol + Wooden prep/serving table
Full set of Billys, frying pan per patrol
Utensils and chopping boards per patrol
Plates and cutlery
Washing up equipment

Instructions

Run the evening as a scored competition with points for budgeting, use of ingredients, teamwork, hygiene, food prep and, of course, taste; where scouts have to make a 'presentation plate' for leaders to admire and try.

Have spot checks during the evening for cleanliness - this is usually the thing that slips the most.

Care over knife skills at the food prep stage.

In the benign environment of indoors, the menu can be more adventurous than usual backwoods fare.
Incorporate an International theme to advance your programme in that area too or a theme such as "fresh"

This activity can be used as the 'cook, shop and clearing up' parts of the Chef Activity badge.

Tags

• indoor cooking

Badge Links

• Chef - Clearing up
• Chef - Cook
• Chef - Shop and Transport