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Practical food skills videos

These videos are the need-to-know for your pupils in their food and cooking journeys.

Most of our videos are 'peer to peer' videos, which means that your pupils can watch people like them perform the skills they are about to practise!

Our Teacher versions of these videos provide more details on how to teach these skills in lessons.

Getting started

Four videos to introduce getting ready to cook and how to weigh dry ingredients (e.g. flour), liquid ingredients (e.g. milk), and ingredients measured with spoons (e.g. spices).

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Getting Ready to Cook

This video demonstrates how pupils can get ready to cook safely.

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Weighing ingredients

This video shows how to weigh ingredients using digital scales.

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Measuring liquids

This video shows how to measure liquids accurately using a measuring jug.

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Measuring with spoons

This video shows how to measure accurately with spoons.

Using equipment

These videos demonstrate the use of four important pieces of kitchen equipment: Electric hand whisks, hand-held blenders, standing blenders, and food processors.

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Using an electric hand whisk

This video shows how to use an electric hand whisk safely.

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Using a hand-held blender

This video shows how to use a hand-held blender safely.

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Using a blender

This video shows how to use a blender safely.

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Using a food processor

This video is about using a food processor safely.

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Opening cans

This video shows two ways of opening cans – using a ring-pull and a can opener.

Preparing ingredients

These videos demonstrate the essentials of preparing ingredients, so they are ready to be used in recipes.

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Using a knife - the claw grip

This video shows the claw grip, a safe cutting technique to slice and dice foods.

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Using a knife - the bridge hold

This video shows the bridge hold, a safe cutting technique to cut foods in half, quarters or chunks.

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Using a knife - fork secure

This video shows the ‘fork secure’ technique. It’s a safe way to slice food.

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Cutting with kitchen scissors

This video shows how to cut vegetables with kitchen scissors, a safe cutting technique to cut foods.

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Using a grater

This video shows how to grate three different foods.

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Using a vegetable peeler

This video shows how to use a vegetable peeler.

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Juicing citrus fruits

This video shows how to juice citrus fruit, such as lemons and limes.

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Handling eggs

This video shows how to crack and separate eggs.

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Preparing an onion

This video shows how to peel, slice and dice an onion carefully.

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Preparing garlic

This video shows how to prepare and crush a clove of garlic.

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Preparing a chilli

This video shows how to prepare a chilli safely.

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Preparing fresh ginger

This video shows how to prepare fresh ginger.

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Preparing chicken

A video looking at how to prepare chicken.

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Preparing raw meat

This video shows how to remove the fat from raw meat, as well as cut it.

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Removing the skin from a fillet of fish

This video shows how to remove the skin from a fillet of fish.

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Draining hot water

This video shows how to drain hot water from a saucepan.

Using the cooker

Four videos showing how to use the cooker safely, including draining away boiling water (after boiling on the hob).

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Using the hob - boiling

This video shows how to use the hob to boil foods, such as pasta.

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Using the hob - frying

This video shows how to fry foods, using a frying pan and a wok.

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Using the grill

This video shows how to use the grill safely.

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Using the oven

This video shows how to use the oven safely.

Using flour

Five videos showing how to rub-in, form a dough, roll out a dough, fold a mixture and spoon mixture into cases.

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Rubbing fat into flour

This video shows how to use the rubbing in method to create shortcrust pastry.

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Forming a dough

This video demonstrates how to form a dough, useful for a number of baked goods.

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Rolling out a dough

This video shows how to roll dough out into pastry of a desired thickness.

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Folding in

This video shows how to fold in flour to keep a mixture light and fluffy.

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Lining a tin

This video shows how to line a tin with pastry, useful for making foods such as quiches and pies.

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Spooning a mixture

This video shows how to spoon a mixture into cupcake or muffin cases.

Making a sauce

Videos showing how to make a white and a tomato sauce.

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Making a tomato sauce

This video shows how to make a simple tomato sauce in the classroom.

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Making a roux (white sauce)

This video shows how to make a white sauce, using the roux method.

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Making an all-in-one white sauce

This video shows how to make a white sauce, using the all-in-one method.

Practical food skills charts

To accompany these videos, you can view and download our Practical food skills charts, which identify all of the skills that pupils can acquire, develop and secure, as they progress.

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Pupil friendly practical food skills chart 1

A chart of practical food skills with words, images and descriptions.

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Pupil friendly practical food skills chart 2

A chart of practical food skills with words and images.