I've been asked to teach cooking at the library - teens mainly & maybe adults

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music-city-missy

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Searching for ideas to put together a series. I've got to go look but I'm thinking this will have to be in multipurpose rooms that don't have kitchens and are carpeted. Demo alone is going to be boring so I have to find some hands on activities to keep it interesting.

 
Something I did with Brownies years ago is make pasta with hand-cranked pasta machines...

I had mine & borrowed another. I had them work in pairs. Then I sent them home with directions for cooking. If you can bring processors /blenders you can have them make salsas or other non-cooked items. Also you can have them assemble hor d'ouevres or snacks from items not needing cooking. Can you bring toaster ovens? or electric frying pans? I'm just thinking of what I used when my kitchen was being remodeled.

 
Hmmm... sounds like that leaves out anything with flour. How about making chocolate truffles?

You could always bring a hot plate or microwave to plug in somewhere.

Since you can't actually "cook" anything, how about showing them how to chop cabbage and make different kinds of coleslaw?

Maybe you could demo different cooking instruments that aren't in the normal kitchen. Some people have never even seen a mandolin or microplane in action.

Luisa's idea for a pasta maker is a cool idea. You could demo making sheets of pasta then let the students cut it out in different shapes. They could take it home to cook.

Maybe do a demo on different herbs. Bring little clay pots filled with soil, hand out seeds, and instructions for growing. Hand out recipes for each appropriate seed.

Will there be a class fee involved to cover purchases such as this?

 
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