Food Tech Reflection

LI: To make a smoothie and a fruit salad.

Today, our session of Tech for the year 7s was based around food technology and responsibilities with cooking. We made a fruit salad and banana smoothie.

First, we were introduced to our teacher for food tech, Mrs Hecka. we put our belongings and items away in multiple pigeon holes to keep ourselves organized. We washed our hands and put on an apron and proceeded to the kitchen stations. Everyone was put into groups of three or four.

After this, Mrs Hecka showed us where we can find all the tools and items that we will need for food tech. There were different sized bowls, utensils, measuring cups, pots and pans which were all on trolleys. We started by choosing who in our group would wash the dishes, who would dry the dishes and who would put away the dishes.

We started our cooking by grabbing the ingredients, which were milk, yogurt, bananas, kiwifruit, apples, mandarins, watermelon and blueberries. We filled a small measuring cup up of yogurt and used a medium measuring cup to calculate the amount of milk we needed. 

While two people took care of the yogurt and milk, another person began dicing the kiwifruit, watermelon, mandarin, bananas and apples into cubes for the fruit salad. We started cleaning as we went so our kitchen station wouldn't end up a complete mess for us to clean in the end.

Once the fruits were sliced, we divided up all the fruits into cups and we continued to fill up our fruit salad cups until there was no more diced fruit left. We made sure our fruit salad cups were colourful and full of various fruits.

Finally, each group took turns using the blender to create their banana smoothies. We first put the milk into the blender followed by the bananas and strawberry yogurt. We blended it for twenty seconds and it was eventually ready to drink. We poured the smoothie into a plastic cup and every group was able to eat their fruit salad and drink their smoothie.

I very much enjoyed making fruit salads and banana smoothies because I was able to use my cutting and cooking abilities to create something that I was happy to eat.