Featured Student Chefs Gallery

IS ESF Chef Final 2019

This year the final of the IS ESF Chef final was probably the most challenging brief yet, with the students been tasked to make a plant based main and dessert in 1hour 45mins. The atmosphere was friendly but tense as the students worked there way through the different techniques in making their dishes and getting them presented for the judges, but it got much more frantic as the timer ran down. This year we had the following judges The Chef and Manager from POP Vegan restaurant in Elgin Street, Alvin from Magic season Organics, Mr Loggie and Jennifer Frawley (last year senior winner and Viva Sheth (Vegan IB  Food Science student), so a great range of experts and food enthusiasts. the results Fore the seniors 1st Place – Charlotte Wong, who made courgette Noodles with Fried tofu and Tomato salsa, with Vegan Chocolate Lave Cake 2nd place – Wai LamYau – Eggplant Thai green curry and Coconut cheesecake 3rd Place – Victoria Van de Pol – Butternut squash pasta and banana cake For the Juniors 1st – Valerie and Charlotte Man who made Vegan Burgers and fries with lemon meringue pie 2nd Place  – Elizabeth Ming and Jenny Lau – Vegan tacos and Cannoli 3rd place – ...

Lords Kitchen does the Impossible

Today the Lords Kitchen elements class took part in a groups large scale production task, to cook and sell all the remaining Impossible burgers left over from the fare. They were soon snapped up by staff and students and we raised another $2000 for the PTA/Spirit fund.  

Homemade pasta week. (Chefs of the week – Renee and karen

This week in Lord’s kitchen the skills built up to level 100, with homemade pasta week. Students had to make their own dough, roll it out and make a sauce to accompany it. All students did an excellent job, but Renee and Karen were Chefs of the week, as they went one step further ad made a mushroom and cheese filling  and shaped ravioli and served it with a garlic and parsley butter.  

Eggs Benedict Challenge – Chefs of the week Stephen, Claire, Yanisha and Jennifer

Well done to Stephen, Claire, Yanisha and Jennifer who were awarded chef of the week in Lords Kitchen this week for having the best working practices and the best presentation of their eggs Benedict

ESF Chef Semi Final 2019 – Seniors

The Brief for this years ESF Chef Semi Final 2019 was modernised street food, giving the contestant a vast scope of potential foods they could cook and we got a mix of sweet and savoury from all over the world, corn dogs to faux shark fin soup.     The judges loved the way the students approached the brief and each dish had strengths and weaknesses, but they had to decide on the three finalists for the 3rd April. In 3rd place was Victoria Van De Pol (N) for her Greek doughnuts 2nd place was Wai Lam Yau (N)  for her Lammingtons and winning again was Charlotte Wong (W) for her Fruit Tacos   Many thanks to Michelle Hughes (Business manager), Doris Chan (trainee food teacher0 and the aMZING y13 BTEC Hospitality students who judged