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Online Class: Cooking for the Beginner

Cooking for the Beginner teaches the fundamentals of beginning cooking. Students learn how to safely move around in a kitchen and to stock a kitchen with all the cooking essentials. They will get the opportunity to learn new and easy to prepare recipe's along with learning cooking terms and learning which utensils to use when prepping a meal.

After completing this course, students will be able to cook a hearty breakfast, a delightful lunch and a full dinner for themselves or their family. If you're ready to learn how to cook but just not sure where to start, then join us today and begin cooking a home cooked meal in minutes (while having fun too)!

Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish. An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course completions.

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1.0 CEUs

Course Description

Are you ready to take charge of your kitchen? Have you been thinking about cooking up a new recipe but not sure where to start? Is your spouse complaining that they are tired of eating out all of the time?

If you answered yes, to the above questions, then you are going to enjoy Cooking for the Beginner. This course will teach you the basics of cooking. We will learn how to safely move around in a kitchen and to be able to stock our kitchen full of the basic cooking essentials. Students will get the opportunity to learn new and easy to prepare recipe's along with learning cooking terms and knowing which utensils to use when prepping a meal.

If you are ready to learn how to cook but just not sure where to start, then join us today and begin cooking a home cooked meal in minutes (while having fun too)!

This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.

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Course Lessons

Setting Up A Cook's Kitchen - This lesson will provide a breakdown of the supplies that will be needed to begin working in their kitchen. We will touch on the tool caddy and tools, types of knives,pots and pans, cutting boards, even the kind of towels to have on han
Stocking Your Pantry - One of the wisest things that a cook could do would be to have a working pantry in the home. We will go into what needs to be stocked in the pantry. We will explore places to put a pantry and how to save money stocking a pantry.
Safety In The Kitchen - Food safety should be your prime concern when you go into the kitchen. Preventing cuts and burns should also be a priority. We will learn common-sense approaches to safety in the kitchen.
Breakfast Anyone? - Breakfast is said to be the most important meal of the day. This lesson will tell you the basics of preparing eggs, pancakes, bacon, and coffee. All of these dishes can be prepared so many different ways and a cook can gauge how much fat content will be u
Dad, What's For Lunch - Lunch is a time that you want to prepare in a hurry but yet have a tasty meal for everyone. We will prepare a warm weather and a cold weather meal. So let's get started.
Mom. What's For Dinner? - We will learn in this lesson how to take help from the grocery store and how to plan our dinner menu, along with recipes for that menu.
Tips, Questions And Answers For New Cooks - This lesson will attempt to answer some of the questions about cooking that I have been asked in the past. It will also provide you with tips on the most common chore in the kitchen-prep work.

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Certificates awarded by the instructor will vary and are based upon student merit. Any awards you earn are considered unofficial (or temporary) unless you decide to make the award official. To make an award official, there is a $30.00 processing fee that covers the customization, printing, and shipping of a hard copy of the certificate as well as access to the UniversalClass™ Transcript Service. Official awards include a serial number that verifies the authenticity of the award you earned for a lifetime (great for employers to verify your achievement).

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