Parua Bay: Food Technology

Evaluating our Learning:

Chickpea Pizza & Cupcakes by Frank

Today at Technology, I will be evaluating my chickpea pizza with chicken and bacon. For our dessert, we had chickpea and chocolate chip cupcakes.

The positives were both products cooked well, tasted good and we had good ingredients. There was one exception - the cupcakes didn't rise, causing them to look strange. This was because we didn't put enough mixture in each case. A skill we demonstrated was independence because we found the recipe ourselves and made it with minimal help from an adult.

Something I would improve is adding self-rising flour so the cupcakes would be more fluffy and tasty.

If I made this again, I would add fruit or maybe homemade ice cream to go with it.

What went wrong was that we burnt two of the pizzas, even though we saved them, they still tasted worse than the ones we did not burn. I did not like the chicken on the pizza because it was a bit dry.

I would make both of these again; the taste was good, and the cook time was perfect. A skill I'm still learning is mixing, and I could get better. I know I could improve it by doubling the recipe.

Dumplings by Olive

I will be evaluating the dumplings we made today, they were half steamed half fried, and in my opinion they were really good, I will be describing the positives and negatives of our dumplings.

Our dumplings were kinda spicy, I like spicy though so it was very VERY good. I think the crimping that we did around the edges was quite well done and they were nice and golden from frying them in the pan for so long, I think we added lots of nice flavors and they were all combined nicely.

One of the only things that needed improvement was how small we diced the cabbage, I think we didint dice it enough and there were big chunks throughout the filling, so I think a skill I need to improve on is my dicing.

Some of our dumplings split open while cooking, I think this was because I maybe didint put enough water on the seal.

Although it was very delicious I think that the ingredients canceled each other out.

I would make this product again as I enjoyed them.