Learn Western Cooking Techniques (Foundations) from Professional Chefs in Singapore
Cooking food is one of the greatest joys in the world. The experience of cooking is not only rewarding in terms of feeling of accomplishment but also produces delicious product.
However, sometimes a new recipe from internet could not produce the desired result as shown by your favorite chef.
This is because most recipes assume that readers will be aware of culinary basics.
While some of the basics are assumed unimportant or mere common sense by amateur cooks, it may be something that can make you cook like a professional.
With strong fundamentals, it is easy to learn new dishes from internet or magazines, however building fundamental itself require practice and expert knowledge.
A strong foundation in culinary arts requires understanding of many aspects of cooking from making the right cuts to selecting the correct garnish.
Some of these aspects are discussed below:
Basic Knives: Knives are chef’s best friend and every good cook should know about different type of knives and how to use them safely.
Chopping vegetables is an arts in itself and require knowledge of different cutting style to prepare ingredients efficiently.
Ingredient basics: Good taste demands choosing the right ingredients.
One should also know about food hygiene and safety to use these ingredients.
Many food items require elaborate cleaning ritual, a cook should know how to clean food items efficiently.
A cook should also be able to identify different vegetables, herbs, spices and meats.
Also, it’s necessary to know the combined flavor from mixing of two or more ingredients.
Basic cooking principles: There are many ways food items can be cooked or used raw.
Cooking is mainly categorized into dry heating and moist heating.
A cook should know both dry heating techniques like roasting or sauteing as well as moist heating techniques like steaming or poaching.
A cook should also know pre-requisites for cooking like marinating.
There are many ways of cooking one item.
For example, chicken can be roasted or fried.
A cook should be aware of all common cooking styles and few additional styles based on his or her liking.
Basic sauce: Another culinary foundation is knowledge about making different sauces, purees and stocks.
This knowledge can lift up the taste a notch above the canned variety of the same dish.
This requires learning about mother sauce and mother stock which can be then used to create variety of different stocks and sauces.
Common Dishes: There are many dishes which are common in everyday meals.
To create new dishes one must master these basic dishes first.
As per interest, one can learn different styles of cooking common dishes like salads, pastas or cakes.
Like any other arts, culinary arts requires imagination to produce new and beautiful creation.
However, the fundamentals are necessary to express those imaginations into a delicious product.
A cook who is expert in basics will have better understanding of specialized dishes created by cooking maestros and will have better chance of recreating or even improving it.
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Hi there, when is the next intake for this class beginning? What are the schedule options please? Thanks
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How much for the cooking class fee
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hi, can i have the price list for the course and is it skillfuture claimable?
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Hi, are we able to use skillsfuture credit for western cooking? and when does the class start?
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how much? time? private classes
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Hi when are the lessons + pricing for this course? is there a course structure to refer/peruse?
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Any cooking classes for helper which would be held on sundays
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Hi would like to know is there different type of pasta sauces making courses
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