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GCSE Food Technology

GCSE Food Technology. What is food technology?. All foods that we buy from the supermarkets have been designed by food technologists Food technologists are responsible for designing foods with particular groups of people in mind

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GCSE Food Technology

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  1. GCSE Food Technology

  2. What is food technology? • All foods that we buy from the supermarkets have been designed by food technologists • Food technologists are responsible for designing foods with particular groups of people in mind • Foods designed for supermarkets have to be healthy and environmentally friendly

  3. AQA GCSE Food Technology The course consists of • Controlled assessment 60%- a design and make task where you show you are a good cook • Exam 40%

  4. GCSE Food Technology Why is it a good GCSE choice? What do you need to be able to do? • It’s fun to cook • It teaches you a life skill • It teaches you how to eat healthily • Your use of descriptive language improves • It is completely different from any other subject • Cook! • Provide ingredients weekly • Test your foods on your family • Write in length about what you and others think of your food • Try foods that you may not have tried before • Cook everything we ask you to • Follow health and safety rules

  5. Double GCSE catering and hospitality • Catering and hospitality is the study of the sale of food, drink and hospitality

  6. GCSE Catering GCSE Hospitality • Unit 1: 2 controlled assessment projects where you cater for a group of people e.g. Serving a buffet for a group of parents based on dairy foods • Unit 2 1 ¼ hour exam • Unit 3: Planning and running an event where you cater for at least 10 people in a team • Unit 4: • 1 ¼ hour exam

  7. Why is it a good choice? What do you need to be able to do? • Cooking for events is good fun and a realistic way of understanding the catering trade • Cooking is a good life skill • Work as a team • Follow health and safety rules • Communicate well • Cook everything! • Bring ingredients every week from home • Be organised

  8. What is a food GCSE not? • Food is not an easy subject as you have to be organised • You won’t simply cook whatever you want and then sit round and eat it, both food options are academic • There is lots of written work as with all the GCSE food subjects 60% is based on the controlled assessment parts which are evidenced by writing and photos

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