Personal Hygiene

Today I will be explaining some things about personal hygiene and how to keep yourself safe including others while cooking. Personal Hygiene is important for us to teach us to stay healthy and preventing any disease while cooking, I was told to make something that includes the "Personal Hygiene" words and then explain the reasons why it is important and how we prevent bad things from happening while cooking so here is a wordart I made that's all related to our Personal Hygiene...

Personal Hygiene WordArt:

So first off the first key things for my group in cooking which we are going to work on together are that we make sure we clean our hands all the time and remind them unless the forget and other things to keep our hygiene safe. So during and after cooking or practicals, make sure you clean your tables so you're able to work on a clean surface. Before touching any ingredients wash your hands so you don't spread germs or get anyone sick with those germs, also you must have different coloured cutting boards for specific food as shown below on the picture.

COLOUR CODED BOARDS:

The reason why we don't use the same boards is so that we don't mix for example "RAW FISH" with "VEGETABLES" or else the vegetables will start smelling like fish, it also helps you reduce the risk of cross-contamination which is transferring bacteria from one object or food to another which can often cause harm to our health and make us sick or even getting an infection. 

Another thing to keep in mind is not to use the same towel over and over again so collect new towels because some towels may have germs in them if used for a week or so, it's better to wash it and use it later after dried up because if you use that same towel your basically spreading more germs from other people and we don't want that. So these were the basics and if you found this helpful leave a comment and hope you enjoyed or learned something from this post. Stay safe and have a great day😄👍...

Cupcakes

Before lockdown, I didn't get my blog finished about cupcakes so today this blog post will be about our baking on the cupcake, me and my group finished the cupcake but we did the icing the day after and decorated it. Firstly my group and I started making the cake, it took some effort to get the cakes right and finish the day off, we added all the ingredients and followed the recipe step by step. Once we finished our cake the day after we started our icing decorations.

We had to first take out our cakes and put it on the table. We then got to choose different flavours to add to our icing, my team chose to do strawberry flavour so we went with it and started decorating it. It didn't take too long to finish the decorations but in the end, the results were ok.

My team and I were exhausted from all the pressure and the work but we were relieved it was finished and we enjoyed that practical. I shared my share of cupcakes and my family enjoyed it so I was happy if they were and that was it. I hope you enjoyed my post and have a great day.

My Strength

In my Wananga class, we have been looking at what our strengths are. These are my top 5 Strengths: Fairness, Teamwork, Hope, Kindness & Spirituality. We were then told to make posters about our strength and explain what they mean.

This is my poster showing them and on side of the poster show the definition of the words I chose and what I am good at. I had fun making this poster and I wanna share it with all you guys to show my learning. Hope you like my post...

My Poster:

Electricity- Part 1 (Circuits)

Today I have been given an assigned task to do, we had to summarise about electricity and learn about different types of energy like circuits, potential energy, circuit components and many more. This activity was very interesting to learn about because it shows a lot of information about electricity in such basic electronics or electric objects like a lightbulb. Here are some of the things of what I learned or what I was learning and looking through.

Today in these modern part of our lives Electricity is a very important part, just by looking around you can see multiple of things that rely on electricity such as phones, lightbulbs, tv and etc. First off let me talk about the Circuits...

The Circuit is a loop of wire which connects to an energy source which also connects to an energy user, the energy source is usually a type of battery which produce energy to the circuit. Wires are used so electrons can flow between circuit components, those electrons flow and transfer energy from the energy source to the energy user. The flowing electrons are called current in another name.

The energy source pushes the electrons around the wire and does that continuously in a loop but collects energy from the energy source as it goes around which then the energy user transforms the energy into a useful...energy.

On my next post, I will tell more about Electricity in Part 2, if you learned something comment below what that was and comment on what I should improve in the future. Thanks and Stay Safe😄👍

Money

Today we had a topic to work on Money and it's history and meanings. Me and my partner worked did a bit of research behind the histories of money and gathered the information on an app called Mindmup. We explained what money is and its uses and how it is earned and the value of it. Money is valuable itself and it is used for trading goods for things that will come useful or for just payment. What I've learnt about Money is that the first money was created in Lydia which is now known as Turkey. Lydia was located in the western but now known as Turkey.

Hope you learnt something from my blog, have a great day, bye...😄👍

Ginger Gems

Yesterday for our practical we made Ginger gems, it was a pretty hard task and our team got all over the place but we managed to handle it. It was a slow process but we moved as fast as we can to get the Ginger Gem in the oven and getting it ready to bake. First, we had to turn on the oven to fan bake 200 degrees. Then we did the "Mise en place" which means setting all your ingredients on the table ready to cook or bake.

Ginger Gems      (Serves 12)

Ingredients:

150 g Butter

1/2 cup Sugar

2 tsp Ground Ginger

1/2 tsp Ground cinnamon

2 Tbsp Golden syrup

1 Egg

2 cups Standard flour

1/2 tsp Baking powder

1 tsp Baking soda

1/2 cup Milk

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 200 degC. Place gem iron in oven to heat.
2. Crem 100g of butter with sugar, ginger and cinnamon.
3. Beat in golden syrup and egg, adding a tablespoon or two of flour to prevent curdling.
4. Sift flour and baking powder
5. Dissolve baking soda in the milk. Mix flour into butter mixture alternately with the milk.
6. Remove gem iron from the oven and put it on a wooden board.
7. Add half of teaspoon of remaining butter to each mould or hollow. It will sizzle.
8. Fill moulds with batter. Bake for about 15 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
9. Cool slightly then remove gems to cool on a wire rack.

Innovative Ideas

Last week in Business studies we had to get in groups and get some ideas and products that could be improved. We had next designed the product that we were going to innovate.

What product you are trying to improve?

We are improving the stock juice sprayer usually used on salad, cooked food and etc. it is profitable in multiple ways, normally known as the Fruit or Lemon Sprayer.


Why you want to improve it?

My group found something simple and we chose the juice sprayer, you normally buy it separately to get a different size so we made it so it is detachable and size changeable so it saves you money, it can be extendable as well so it fits in lemons, lime and etc. Pretty useful for multipurpose.


What would the changes allow for?

Our group thought that since you have to buy another juice sprayer because of the size we made it detachable, extendable and etc. It can be changed and profitable which saves you money instead of buying a new one. We wanted our product to be changeable because it can be used as multipurpose and again saves you money.