Cooking and Baking Professional

This program will provide you with the fundamental skills necessary to secure a
position in the culinary field. The program provides hands-on experience in cooking
and baking to help you start you career in the cooking and bakery field.
This program includes instruction in:

• ServSafe Manager Certification: The ServSafe Food Safety Training Program
will teach students to recognize the responsibilities involved in the prevention of
food-borne illnesses. The training also will help food service workers understand
the importance of proper storage, food preparation, cleaning, and sanitizing to
ensure safe food handling.

Cooking Modules include:
• Knife Skills: Students will learn basic knife skills including; care and
maintenance of tools, sharpening, and proper grip. Cuts will include dice,
roundel, bias, julienne, brunoises, and tournee. Emphasis will be on mastery of
consistency and speed.

• Pantry Production: Learn product identification, composed salads, and
dressings. The course includes garnish and canapes. Learn the skills necessary
to be successful in the food service industry.

• Professional Line Cooking: Hone your skills in organization, knife cuts,
equipment use, cooking techniques, and fundamentals. Focus on sauté, grilling,
frying, and vegetable cookery.

• Stocks, Soups, and Sauces: Learn the secrets to a good stock, and your soups
and sauces will be exceptional. Start with the basics and learn mother sauces,
small sauces, contemporary sauces, and a variety of thickening techniques.
Then move on to soups, including consommé, creams, purées, and chowders.

Baking Modules Include:

• Piping and Pastry Bag Skills: An introductory class covering a variety of border
designs, flowers, balloons, and other cake decorations. Students will develop
skills in cake writing.

• Pastry: Focus on organization, equipment, pastry bag techniques, specialty
ingredients, chocolate work, decorating, garnishes, and classic pastry shop
items.

• Artisan Bread Baking: Learn to make exceptional bread using old-world recipes
and modern techniques. This course will teach you the use of different grains
and techniques.

• Commercial Baking: This class helps students develop applicable skills
using a commercially produced product. Start by preparing basic staples of
a commercial bakery and then transform them into plated desserts, specialty
items, signature, and unique creations.