Online Cooking Lessons Index

We have all of our kids lessons broken into age appropriate groups. These groups teach kids kitchen tasks and then build on those skills as they gain experience. Once they finish the kids lessons we introduced the basic lessons where they learn how to cook different ingredients and try new cooking methods. Here we have a quick run down of all of our lessons that you can find through our site or in our ebooks.

50 + Online Cooking Lessons

Do you want a quick look at what and how to teach children cooking? There are over 50 lesson ideas here but there are still more ideas available throughout the site that are not on this page. So don't forget ideas like craft recipes, seasonal ideas, spa recipes, meal recipes, menu help, parties, cook with book ideas, phew... too many to list.

Feast on these ideas for an overview, but if you'd like an organized step by step method see our teacher curriculum complete set or kids cooking lesson book.

Kitchen Safety	Spreading
Pouring	Dinner Etiquette and Manners
Peeling fruit and eggs	Peeling Vegetables
Practice Rolling	Tearing Lettuce and Tossing a Salad
Nutrition and Eating Healthy	Stirring
Adding Ingredients	Being Creative
Practice Measuring	Practice Cracking Eggs
Reading a Recipe	Using a non-sharp knife for cutting (before introducing sharp knives)
Using a can opener	Reading labels
Using Kitchen Tools	Using the microwave
If you'd like an organized step by step method see our teacher curriculum complete set	Or order our Kids Cooking Lesson Instructor and Student Manuals
Rolling cookie dough	Planning meals and writing shopping lists
Cooking on the Stove Safety	Sharp Knife Use and Safety
Baking Homemade Bread	Planning and Shopping for Meals
Making Pie Dough	Understanding Terms
Using Kitchen Appliances	Baking Cookies
Halving and Doubling Recipes	Baking Cakes
Cooking Side Dishes and Salads	Cooking main dishes and meat dishes
One night a week chef	Teaching your teen to shop wisely
Cooking International food	Teaching others to cook
Preserving food	How to Cook Q&A Forum
Around the World Studies Manual	Theme Cooking Camps
Juicing Lemons	Learn more about Food Presentation and adding garnish to your meals
How to make stock and soups	How to make the 5 mother sauce
Working with yeast and baking breads	Using herbs and spices.
How to cook vegetables	How to cook dry beans
How to cook grains	How to cook eggs
Different cooking methods	Grow your own herb garden and how to use fresh herbs
Breading and Coating Technique	Using a Blender
Using a toaster oven	Using a bread machine

See our 70 ways to cook with your kids list.

Simple Techniques That Teach Kids Cooking Skills

The kitchen, like martial arts or girl scouts, offers many opportunities to teach kids different techniques and disciplines. These techniques help to develop a child's mind and both self and spatial awareness. Teaching kids different techniques in the kitchen builds more than just one aspect of their being, but instead everything from the inside out. Let's take a look at a couple of techniques and how they help to develop the child.

Knife Skills

Wielding a knife requires a set of skills all on its own, but being in complete control of the blade has a feeling like none other. Teaching a child at an early age, how to respect a sharp edge, gives them the understanding of how power and authority work. Demonstrating how a simple flick of the wrist can completely demolish a potato or watermelon is both amazing and awe-inspiring to a child.

But understanding how to control that power and manipulate it for a good cause is a lesson that is not taught too often in life. Many times people go around abusing power with reckless abandon and, unlike the once-popular comic books; the good guys don't always win. These techniques teach self-control and how to use the power for good.
See our kids cooking poster set for Knife Safety Skills Posters.

Cooking Styles

Teaching different cooking styles is equivalent to giving a child a box of 100 crayons. With this many different colors and combinations to use, creativity begins to flourish. The same goes with different cooking styles. Learning the simple differences between wet heat, dry heat and combination heat, the child can begin to play with what works best in each situation.

By providing a number of different ways to explore the actual cooking process, children begin to work through the creative process. You can almost see it as they try to decide what needs to be added first when sautéing vegetables or if a turkey should be boiled or baked in order to get that signature crispy skin. Letting a kid explore is one of the greatest ways to build their minds.
See our Teacher's Curriculum Cooking Set where we dive into different cooking methods and age appropriate cooking tasks.

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