In this free online course, learn the fundamentals of good cooking and take your culinary skills to the next level. In this course, you will learn various culinary skills, such as slicing and dicing, using and honing knives properly, cleaning vegetables, making stock, creating sauces, kneading dough kneading and so forth. This course explains the different temperature ranges required for food preservation. You will also study various essential kitchen utensils and their uses, along with some medically significant herbs and spices.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 188925 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Discuss the eight basic culinary skills • Analyze the adequate temperature ranges required for proper storage of different food items • Summarize the four most important food-borne illnesses and their causative organisms • Identify the age groups that are at a higher risk of getting affected by food-borne illnesses • Recognize various essential kitchen utensils and their uses • Explain some of the essential knife-cutting skills and methods of using honing rods to sharpen the knives • Recognize the characteristics of common herbs and spices and their medical benefits • Distinguish between barding and larding processes |
| Course Code | 5340 |

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