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Masterchef (senior) round 1 – Creative with Pasta

Today Island school held the first of three school rounds to determine the who will eventually represent the school in the ESF Final in June. Each house could enter 2 competitors from either Y10 or Y12 and the pupils were give the brief “Creative with Pasta” and had 45 mins to prepare and cook their dish.

There was a total of 10 competitors and the standard of food produced and served to the 4 judges was exceptional and the judges could each award of total of 15 marks for the creativity and sensory qualities of each dish. ten additional points could then be added to this score for the organisation, skills and working practices, decided upon by Mr Lord.

Well done to the following students who made it through to the next round, where the brief is a chilled dessert in 45mins

1st place Ravin Schmidl 12E (60/70 points) Who is now Chef of the week!

2nd Adrian Li 12D (59)

3rd Kaela-Mei Townson 10W (54)

Joint 4th – Linda Zhu 12W, Daniel Meerovitsch 10F, Katherine Nye 12R (52)

Commiserations to Ethan Li, Lindie, Gaultney, Perry Chan and Ttaka Hoshiyama, who just missed out on making the next stage of thge competition.

Also a big thank you to the judges (Ms Astridge, Nitin, Alvin and Claudia), Ms Reid and her camera crew and Mr Chan and Jason Lin who kept a watchful eye on the judging process

By Chris Lord-January 23rd, 2015-Competition, Extra-curricular, featured_student_chef, News-0 Comments

Congratulations to the Y9 cake decorating winners

Well done to Cheryl Chin and Rohan Krishnamohan who were awarded the prizes in the cake decorating competition. Cheryl made the amazing Angry Birds cake and Rohan showed good piping skills and initiative with the voting process for his Bones cake. Well done and enjoy using all the baking equipment in the hamper, which was kindly donated and beatified by the PTA.

Bones

Angry birds

By Chris Lord-December 17th, 2014-Competition, Y9 Home Cooking Skills, Year 9-0 Comments

Y12 DT/Food Chocolate project

This week saw the culmination of the Y12 chocolate design project, where pupils sold there products at the winter fare. Pupils and been working groups mixed with both Food and DT students and had design and branded their own chocolates, by 3d printing the shapes, vacuum forming the molds and then tempering the chocolate and packaging the finished products.

The product all sold out very quickly and we could ahve sold alot more with more time to make them.

After all ingredients, material and the stall rents have been deducted the profits were donated to Masarang foundation. Below is the amounts each team made.

Guilty Pleasures – $541

CATCH – $559

Chocolate factory – 245

This make CATCH the winner!

Well done to all groups, as they all worked extremely well together and made high quality products. We will definitely be running this project again next year.

By Chris Lord-December 8th, 2014-Competition, Cross Curricular, IB, News-0 Comments

Y13 BTEC Business – Apprentice Baking challenge

As part of the Y13 BTEC Business studies course, the students were split into 3 teams and each team was gioven $300 to spend on ingredients and materials and were given a stall at the winter fare. They were then asked to go away and plan there stall and were given a 3 hours slot in the food room, to make their products.

The 3 teams were

The Baking Boys and decided to make Triple Chocolate Brownies with fudge sauce.

Gumdrop buttons making Cupcakes

Puff flex making sweet and savory pasties.

The baking was on the whole a great success, with only Puff flex encountering any problems, as some of the sweet white chocolate pasties had quite a bit of leakage and therefore could not be sold. Gumdrop buttons, worked excellently together and produced high volume of consist cupcakes, very good collaboration. The Baking Boys produced a high quality luxury product which they then cleverly packaged.

At the winter fare The Baking boys sold out first with there 35 portions of brownies being very popular,The Cupcakes being sold for $10 each sold at steady pace and eventually sold out, but the pasties, didn’t quite sell out and they had a bit of waste from the exploded chocolate pasties.

All profits were going the Masarang Foundationon and after they had repaid their $300, paid their stall rent the final totals were

The Baking Boys – $700

Gumdrop buttons making Cupcakes – $646

Puff flex making sweet and savory pasties $134

This makes The Baking boys the winning team in terms of profit, but Gumdrop Buttins, won the teamwork award.

By Chris Lord-December 8th, 2014-BTEC, Competition, Cross Curricular, News-1 Comment