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Introduction...

This Catering Blog pulls together all Catering related resources and applications; that have been included in John Dalziel's eMagazine, eMagazine Supplements, Blog (What DL is Happening?) and Audio Blog.

Go to http://www.only2clicks.com/pages/acljohn/257376 to access archived Catering links in my 'Public only2clicks'

EggWatchers

Posted by John Dalziel on Saturday, February 6, 2010 , In : Timer 

EggWatchers is an online egg timer that helps to prepare a perfect boiled egg and entertains you by showing videos from YouTube while you wait for your egg to be cooked.

The site even lets you specify the type of egg you want to cook.

To use EggWatcher’s timer...

  • go to the site; and
  • choose what size of egg is to be cooked; then
  • specify if the egg is refrigerated; and
  • specify how you want it to be cooked (runny, squidgy, or firm).

After starting the timer, the website will play a ra...


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CookThing: How to Cook Anything

Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, September 25, 2009 , In : Recipes 

Visitors to CookThing can...

  • enter what they want to cook,
    CookThing sends back the most common ingredients in that dish.
  • select the ingredients they want to use,
    CookThing will return the recipes for what they want to cook with the ingredients they want to use
Try it out at http://www.cookthing.com/.

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Two Foods

Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, September 11, 2009 , In : Food 

TwoFoods is a nice online tool for those who are calorie conscious or, more importantly, studying Food Science and would love to know the nutritional value that food has to offer.

The website has a simple interface showing two boxes where users enter names of two foods and compare their nutritional values. It provides a comparison table showing the...

  • calories,
  • proteins,
  • carbohydrates and
  • fat

...in both of them.

A simple and nice user interface found at http://www.twofoods.com/.


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Rouxbe

Posted by John Dalziel on Monday, August 24, 2009 , In : Catering 

Rouxbe is an online video cooking school complete with...

  • practice video recipes,
  • cooking exercises,
  • culinary quizzes,
  • progress reporting and
  • personal chef support...

Full access to the Rouxbe Cooking School requires a paid Premium Membership.

What is free on Rouxbe?

Rouxbe offers...

  • a free sample lesson every day
  • all the...
    • instructional video recipes,
    • text recipes,
    • tip and technique videos and
    • community forums

Users don’t have to sign up to learn a great deal...


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About Me

John Dalziel
Liverpool

John Dalziel I'm an eLearning Adviser specializing in stimulating and supporting innovation in learning via eBooks, eMagazines, blogs (including audio versions), online TV, interactive resources, forums, workshops, conferences and face2face consultations. Evaluating and becoming familiar with sustainable and new technologies allows me to respond to the needs of learning providers from a position of experience rather than 'hearsay'. Supported learning providers, in the northwest of England (UK), can contact me for FREE consultations. Based at Lancaster University I work for the JISC Regional Support Centre - Northwest.
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  • Two Foods
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