Today we have the Lake Washington School District Middle School Culinary Competition.
(Stirring)
...Where should I put these onions...leave those aside for now that's a topping...
We have 26 teams of two, from middle schools all throughout the school district.
(cutting)
We are making fried rice.
it's really cool to see the
kids working as teams their teamwork and
they've been practicing the recipe.
I'm getting I'm getting the ginger ready.
We have some broccoli, celery, cabbage.
I'm chopping all my vegetables first and while
my oil is heating and then when it's
ready I'm gonna put them in.
Well I saw them really working together as a team
and helping one another and just putting
all that the ingredients together and
putting the recipe together.
...just dump the whole thing in...
Just doing what they're supposed to be doing as far as cooking.
...gonna start with the vegetables first. You always want to season things differently so it tastes a lot better...
Making sure things are clean as they cook. Using good knife skills
It's really fun to make because we get to learn how to cut the ingredients as well as cook the rice.
At the beginning we had just one or two
teams here and now now we have to have
two rounds of middle school students we
have so many kids that are excited to do this.
It's a way we can kinda express ourselves using food and everyone likes to eat so.
Coming up to 26 teams for this year
is a big deal.
It smells really good.
I like how you can just pretty much change
how everything is going and how every
little thing makes it makes an important
difference.
And our goals around middle school are
following the recipe, knife skills, sanitation and safety
and kids having fun. Kids having fun that's what it's all about.
It was really fun...it was a good experience...Yeah...
it's time to like be able
to like express yourself and like make
food that you want to eat.
They're so excited to be able to have this
opportunity to do this.
Most of them really would love to cook and so it's a good opportunity for them.
