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  1. 06-03-2007, 01:04 AM #1
    David Chin
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    Calling All Chef Instructors!

    Hello All!

    The high school that's hiring me is starting a brand new culinary program. The six existing "home style" kitchens are going to be remodeled along commercial lines. I was wondering if there were any chef instructors out there to correspond with. I'm specifically wondering how other secondary schools with culinary programs have organized their kitchens.

    I currently envision a demo kitchen that would front a small auditorium with fixed seating. Video cameras discretely located overhead would send images of the counter top and stove top to monitors so that watching students could have a perfect view of the culinary demonstration. Use of video cameras would avoid the problem of having students crowd around a stove where someone might get burnt or stepped on.

    The five remaining kitchens would be student practice kitchens. Each kitchen would be designed to accommodate 6-8 students working in groups of two.

    Given a choice, I would have preferred for the entire class to be in one huge kitchen with banks of stainless steel tables and rows of grill tops and stoves ... but insofar as this section of the school wasn't built as a culinary arts department, we are having to make do with what are presumably former home economic kitchens.

    Even if you aren't a chef instructor, I would greatly appreciate hearing about the kitchens of your secondary arts vocational ed program.

    Thanks!

    Chef Dave

    P.S. A similar request for feedback has been posted at: the Chefs' and Cooks' Corner forum [url]http://www.foodservice.com/[/url]
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  2. 06-03-2007, 02:26 PM #2
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    At least your culinary arts program has stoves. Our high school has a "program", in a tiny room with a converted one person bathroom housing the only stove. I had to observe in their three times ths past year and I always left depressed. I had no idea it was possible to "teach" culinary arts by having the students read chapters and answer questions. I observed throughout the year, my last observation was in late april, and the protective covers, used for shipping, were never removed from the burners.

    You are actually going to have the money for a demo kitchen with video cameras? Sounds classy.
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  3. 06-04-2007, 12:31 AM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark
    You are actually going to have the money for a demo kitchen with video cameras? Sounds classy.
    Ah yes ... er-hum ... did I mention that I'll be working at a reservation school? You'd be amazed at how much money our school has compared to an average rural public school. In addition to Federal money and state money, the school has qualified for all sorts of grants. These combined resources will basically fund a state of the art culinary department that will include one demo kitchen and five commercial kitchens.
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  4. 06-07-2007, 01:50 PM #4
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    Would this be a reservation in the northern southern or center of the state.

    I am well aware of how much money rez schools get because I work at one, in Arizona.

    Maybe we can meet up. I spend a heck of a lot of time traveling all over this state.
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  5. 06-07-2007, 02:51 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark
    I am well aware of how much money rez schools get because I work at one, in Arizona.

    Maybe we can meet up. I spend a heck of a lot of time traveling all over this state.
    Hi Mark!

    I'll be working outside Phoenix.

    If my luck holds out, I might be able to get one of the school district's two bedroom apartments. I hope this will be so. There's a mining boom in southern Arizona and there's precious little housing to be rented or purchased in the area around the reservation.

    David
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  6. 06-07-2007, 03:40 PM #6
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    Apache huh? Which one. If my memory serves me right there are at least four different ones. I've spent lots of time on many of the reservations down there. Great photo opportunities. Hot though.
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  7. 06-07-2007, 04:01 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark
    Apache huh? Which one. If my memory serves me right there are at least four different ones. I've spent lots of time on many of the reservations down there. Great photo opportunities. Hot though.
    San Carlos.
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  8. 06-07-2007, 05:03 PM #8
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    Pretty place. Good luck.
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