aclJohn's Catering Finds

Can your learners identify a rotary grater? Or a mandoline? How about a spider?

The infographic by Brooklyn-based Pop Chart Lab, organises a range of cooking utensils into a single, digestible flow chart.

The Tools are...

• arranged by function;
• broken up into sub-categories...
  • slicers;
  • presses;
  • spoons; etc.

Ideal Chef brings together video recipes that are submitted by top chefs from all over the world.

• Italian;

• American;

• Scandinavian;

• Mediterranean; and

• Chinese dishes are all included in the database.
  

Visitors to Ideal Chef are also able to...

• place recipe requests and receive the direct assistance of the many specialized chefs who already interact through the website;

• watch the clips as many times as they need to grasp exactly what is being done and, when they f...

The Marine Conservation Society (MCS)...

...had advised many of the celebrity chefs in January’s Channel 4 ‘Big Fish Fight’ series.

The programmes are dedicated to catching eating and cooking fish and MCS hopes it will encourage individuals to try something different when it comes to their next fish supper.

If you and/or your learners watched the programmes and they served up more questions than they answered, then you will find all the help you need in the Marine Conserv...

National Baking Week <http://www.nationalbakingweek.co.uk/teachers> encourages everyone to get involved in baking and their site offers a huge collection of...

• recipes,
  
• ideas,
  
• advice and
  
• resources for schools/family Learning providers/etc.
  

...to help them take part.

Visit http://www.nationalbakingweek.co.uk/ to find out more and/or to take a look at the resources available.

Visitors can download teaching packs include teachers’ notes, l...

CookDinner...

• can help visitors learn how to make delicious food and try their hand at cooking.
• is a free to use recipe website.
  

Visitors...

• do not need to create an account but, as expected form similar websites, registering provides additional features.
• get a recipe view in which thumbnails of dishes are displayed.
  
• can click on any image to highlight it and its time duration will be displayed.
• can view the recipe’s details like...
  • ingredients and
    
  • preparation method. Along with
    ...

Shopping on Wednesday, the only onions I could find that came from the UK were shallots; New Zealand, Australia and Egypt were the other sources of onions!

Eating fresh, we are told, is one of the most important things when it comes to your health. We are all aware that, given the development in agriculture, any fruit or vegetable can be produced in any season. However, that doesn't mean it's the best thing to eat.

It is considered by many that the best food to eat is usually what is na...

Certified foodie? Like to know all about the food you love? Then check out Gourmet Origins.

Gourmet Origins is a map-based online social guide that helps food enthusiasts discover the origins of gourmet foods. Through this site, learners (and practitioners) will be able...

• to locate exactly where food comes from;
• read facts and trivia about certain food provided by some producers;
  

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...

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

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/.