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It’s time to show off your cooking skills! Make a delicious two course meal with simple ingredients.

Courtesy of The Scout Association
https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/ready-steady-cook-off/

Resources

Scissors
Mixing bowls
Hob
Knives
Forks
Spoons
Plates
Chopping boards
Access to a sink
Washing up liquid

Ingredient Picking Tool printouts - see PDF

Instructions

Before you begin
- Make sure you’re aware of any allergies and dietary requirements among the chefs or judges.
- Cut up the ingredients sheet, and remove any ingredients anyone can’t eat. You’ll need a copy for each group.
- Put each set of ingredients in two bowls – one for sweet, and one for savoury.
- Choose a panel of judges (these could be volunteers, or parents or carers) and arrange for them to join you at the second session, to sample everyone’s delicious dishes. Alternatively, you could get groups to judge one another.
- Plan how you’ll buy and store the food everyone needs between the two meetings.


Meeting one: prepare to cook
1. Split into groups of about six people. Give each group two bowls of folded up paper ingredients (one sweet and one savoury).

2. Each person should pick one ingredient from each bowl, so they have one sweet and one savoury ingredient each. At least one person in each team needs to have a vegetable. [You might need to let people swap an ingredient for another choice, for example if a group ends up with oil, vinegar, basil, mint, garlic, and lemon to make a meal!]

3. Each group should write or draw a list of all of the ingredients they’ve picked and give the list to the person leading the game, so they can buy the ingredients before next week.

4. Each group should think about how they’ll combine their ingredients into two courses. What dishes can they make? Everyone should think about taste, presentation, how easy it is to cook, and how much mess it might make. [Someone with the ingredients sheet can give some hints and tips if anyone gets stuck.]


Meeting two: time to cook
1. The person leading the game should set up safe cooking stations – they may want to do this before everyone arrives. They should organise the ingredients so every group can collect all of their ingredients in a bag.

2. Everyone should get back into their groups, and collect their ingredients from the people leading the game.

3. Each group should prepare and cook their meal at a cooking station, with an adult supervising. [People may need to take it in turns at different stations (for example, washing, chopping, and cooking), depending on the space and facilities you have.]

4. Each group should get their meal ready to serve, thinking about taste and presentation.

5. Once their dishes are ready, each group should present them to the judges. They should explain what ingredients they started with, and what they’ve made.

6. Each group should then tidy up any mess they’ve made, including collecting the judges’ plates – but only once they’ve finished eating!

7. The judges should judge everyone’s meals – how do they taste? How are they presented? How well have they been cooked? How much mess did the team make?

8. The judges should give everyone feedback on their meals. They might want to give out some awards or prizes, for groups who did different thing especially well.


For SAFETY INFORMATION and options to CHANGE THE LEVEL OF CHALLENGE see the online version at https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/ready-steady-cook-off/

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• Chef - Meal
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