First day for elements animators
First animation lesson and we got to grips with some of the fundamental questions around what we doing in his course. What do we expect? Why did we choose it? What is frame rate and the persistence of vision and what is there relevance to animation? Is animation just making things look like they are moving? We’ve then go on to make our zoetropes and our first very simple animations. The point of this is to try to understand some of the complexities and limitations of frame by frame animation as well as the workload implications of our story decisions.
Week 1 – Skill development (omelette and Fruit/Veg carving)
In week 1 of Lord’s Kitchen students were given two challenges to test their skills. Firstly they were asked to make the perfect omelette after watching a demonstration and secondly was to produce a piece of food art by carving a fruits or vegetables. Standards were particularly high for the first lesson, with no omelette disasters and a lot of very good apple swans and turtles. However the first chefs of the week awards go to Tianan Neville for the best omelette and Sarah Khursigara for her intricate fruit carving
Mercedes Me comes to Island School
Today Fernando from Mercedes me came to Island school to work alongside the Lords Kitchen students whilst they made their own Cechive following on from last weeks visit to the restaurant. The students loved the experience and now know the secret behind the perfect tuna and sea bass Cerviche. One student said “it was an awesome lesson and so generous of them to give up their time and provide us with such great ingredients.”
Once again thanks to everyone at Mercedes Me and Maximal Concepts group, their on going support to the Food Tech department si greatly appreciated
Lord’s Kitchen visits Mercedes Me
Today the lord’s Kitchen class was rewarded for their hard work making canapes for the Y13 graduation, b y being taken to Mercedes Me. Upon arriving they were given breakfast and talk about the restaurants concept of teaming up with Mercedes. Then they were given a demonstration and masterclass in Ceviche making from Edgar the executive chef for all of the Maximal Concepts group. This was then followed by a tasting of all the different types that were made. the students loved them and many commented about how suprised they were as they didn’t think it would be to their taste, but the balance of flavours and textures were perfect. Next eek one of the chefs will becoming to Island School to work with the studenst and get them to design and make their own Ceviche dish and maybe even put the best ones on their menu.
Thanks to everyone involved at Mercedes Me and Maximal Concepts
Lords Kitcehn – Y13 Graduation Canapes
Well done to this class who were amazing on 1st June. They all designed and made 100 capes each, making sure we had 200 to serve the 500 guests at the Y13 graduation.
The feedback from the guest was amazing. Possibly the best range of canapes that has come from one of Mr Lord’s classes
‘Tasty’ style Videos
This week Lord’s Kitchen pupils began to publish their Tasty style videos on the lords kitchen youtuble channel. Hitesh Hemnani got the chef of the week for his which was excellently edited
Some others were very good too!
Panna Cotta presentation challenge – Star bakers: Nelly, Emma and Elena
In this weeks Sweet Indulgence I made panna cotta and a selection of coulis and other item that the students could then be creative with in designing a stylish plate to present their dessert.
The Star bakers had a eye for detail and were all very different. So well done Nelly, Emma and Elena
Choux Pastry Week – Star baker Paige Willis
This week was probably the hardest yet, with the choux pastry challenge and the results varied in success. Some students got a better a puff into their pastries than others, but there were some amazing profiteroles and eclairs made.
Star baker goes to Paige Willis though as her profiteroles were creative with raspberry ream and raspberry floured white chocolate coating, as well as being all perfectly uniform.
Lords Kitchen – Tasty Video. Chef of the Week Natalie Leung (10W)
This week Lords kitchen were filming their videos to be submitted to tasty and the Lords kitchen youtube channel. There was I great range of videos being made, and I cannot wait to share them, but Natalie was given Chef of the week for her skillful and creative Rainbow Cupcakes
Pies and tarts – Star Bakers Wai Lam Yau and Rohan Khemchandani
Shortcrust pastry was the starting point for the students this week and after flipping the classroom the students could plan to make any pie or batch of tarts. The standard was high as usual, but this week the star baker awards went to Wai lam for her amazing fruit tarts with home made creme patisserie, as she worked so methodically to them and to Rohan for his determination to get his chocolate gnache tarts made to look all uniform.
