I'm a culinary student, and I'm wondering if there are any other culinary students or Chefs?

college culinary student

AWESOME! :D I'm from Oregon Cost Culinary Institute~ Where are you from?

I am from Lorain, Ohio. Went to the Lorain County JVS for my last two years of high school and going to Lorain county community college college culinary program. Which is just getting off the ground (after 15 years or so since the rumor saying they will get one). better than going all the way to tri-c.

that so awesome ^^ whats your plan for the future in this business? I hope to go to Japan some day and learn all about their food ^^

Well I want to own a restaurant. That is funny that you want to go to japan, I did a paper on Japanese cuisine for my international cuisine class and I know two people that went there and got into some type of trouble. I guess I went to go there too. Remember you can tell a lot about a cuisine by the location.;

I'm in baking and Pastry right now, doing culinary next year. I did a paper on Melon Pan (melon bread) >_> still haven't made it yet.... I should though. But ya, so far, everything Japanese that the Chefs and culinary friends of mine make have been wonderful! Kinda got a thing going. I bring cookie, they give me sushi, I bring cake, they give me stir fry, I bring doughnuts, they give me steak. Etc. I bring sweets, they feed me. Good partnership there.

Well one time I bring my senior chef instructor pierogies and he made my IQF it for him. I was lucky because he only made me do his not the other that I brought for my other teachers. Do you read sizzle magazine he was in one year issue don't know which one. Here a question for you had you read Letters to a Young Chef

No I don't read many magazines. What's Letters to a Young Chef about? Oooh, have you seen Kings of Pastry. It's an instant watch on netflix according to Chef. It's really inspiring to watch!

Well sizzle magazine is a culinary magazine which is now online and Letters to a Young Chef is by Daniel Boulud. He is famous chef and he talk about what he had to do when he was started out and give some good information what a chef needs that is started out (like you should not call yourself a chef unless you had 10 years in the business). I had not seen King of Pastry and I do not have netflix. So what made you go into the culinary field.

I've always loved the food industry. My grandfather use to own a restaurant, and is a food salesman. I've always been good at and enjoyed cooking and baking, and I'd love to own my own bar and cafe someday. So when my plans to go into writing fell threw cause of... reasons... I thought I might as well go to culinary. Owning my own bar was always kind of a later in life, retirement plan. But, It's working out right now just fine.

So what about you?

My mom use to work in a bakery and when I was growing up she made pierogies, chicken paprikash, and stuffed cabbage.I started helping her when I was in middle school. My old history teacher said "We take the jobs of our parents" which I say it half right we go into a job field that our parent was doing when we were growing up. My dad was against me being a chef because of my half brother that is 15 years older than me. I don't really know the details but, they do not see or talk to each other same goes with his brother.

It's awesome you grew up in that! And you know, if you wanna be a chef, be a chef. Don't let anything hold you back! Hay! We should text each other! Maybe we can spring ideas back and forth, share recipes, talk about our school, etc. My email is roxannabellnicole@yahoo.com

just email me your number! ^^

I'm sorry about your brother though. I'd be pretty upset if my sister stopped talking to me.

Well I have 2 half brothers that are around 15 year older than me and a brother that is a year older than me so it ok. I haven't really saw my half brothers that much not since the late 90s. Same goes with my grandma that is 86. And I won't let anyone to hold me back. Carpe Diem. I like email better than text

:( I'm sorry. I hate when family fight...... It's heart breaking.
Good. :) I'm not gonna let anyone hold me back either!

mine email is johnrewak@yahoo.com

Hope more culinary students and chef are on this site

Ya me to. There's got to be more then just us out there! No big black guys from Russia that specialize in sushi? I would love you for ever if you were real! LOL XD

REALLY?! No other Chefs or Culinary students in the Dollars. PierogiGuy.... It is time to start recruiting. *mission face*

I bet their won't be any until my left index finger heal an the nail grow back. A BANG HEAD HERE moment.

What did you do?

>_> I burned my self 3 times today make muffins. The towel had a hole in it, and we were out of other towels, and I can being stupid.

Yolaaaa, I'm not a Culinary student yet, as I am still in highschool, but once I'm out I plan to go to the CIA in Hyde Park New York ^_^

>>22 Good for you for going to the culinary field. What made you pick CIA and not another school like Johnsons and Wales or the Art institute

I used to be a Culinary Arts student, before I moved to Georgia. I went to East Career and Technical Academy and did two years of Culinary there: Food Production I and Food Production II.

>>22 AWESOME! :D Culinary school is awesome! ^^

>>24 That's cool ^^
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Hay we should have a "Chef's Texting Group" we can bounce ideas off each other, share cool new things we've learned, talk about our different schools and such :D I'm kinda curious as to what other schools are like.

bump

>>23 I picked CIA because I live near it, I LOVE New York, and it offers alot of courses that Johnson and Wales doesn't offer. (Plus the campus is beautiful)
>>25 I'd be up for that, I'm a creative guy and I'd love to have some people to bounce ideas off :)

>>27 It doesn't really matter what school you went or want to go to. It all matter on how much drive you have to be the best that you can be. Cooking is cooking. As long you know the cooking methods and knife skills you are set, its all about the knowledge you get and how you use it in real life.

Lol. Guess I'm the only baker here. ANYWAY! It's awesome to meet you guys! SO I have a question. What do you think about a Moulin Rough cake? :3 Some girls in class are doing Rocky Horror Picture Show. So me and a few other people though, keep the awesome musical theme and do Moulin Rough or Sweeney Todd. But Sweeney Todd is over done. So we picked Moulin Rough~ Got any ideas for it?

>>29 You could frost the sides like fishnets or stockings which showgirls or singers back then wore alot of.

>>30 Hay that's a cool idea! ^^ Thank you~ I could probably do that out of a ganache easily.

my invented dish hot dog stir-fry

>>32 lol. what is that????????

I'm making a sugar sculpture this week. God I hope it turns out better then my last one.............

hmm ... I love to bake, I cook ... thank goodness summer is now! (Hungary), and we used to do something for my friends to come together and bake muffins or some other cookie. :): DD

I have cooking lessons and I do relatively well, but I have no idea if that is counted =w=

Hey guys, I'm trying to make a traditional udon dish, but I don't exactly know what goes into a traditional udon dish, if any of you guys would like to give some pointers, that'd be great.

>>36 Google would be a much better adviser.

>>36 I do know ginger, garlic, and scallion (green onion) is the asian version of mirepoix. sorry that I can't be that much help.

>>36 I ask Chef tomorrow for ya buddy~

My Sugar sculpture came out pretty good for my first time! :D it broke just as I pulled into the drive way at my house >_> beyond repair...... *sobs*

I'll stick with Pizza Hut.

>>42 Holy mother of god, thats amazing!!!!!! You are like a candy wizard!!!

>>44 Thank you ^////^ it's not that good really. There are crack marks everywhere from where a broke it and had to fix it, plus it's a little plain. It needs a ribbon or something else on it. Chef was really impressed with everyone cause it was our first time working with sugar.

culinary student in highschool XD if that counts

culinary student in highschool XD if that counts

>>45 Yeah, but those cracks happened after it was made, and honestly, if I didn't see the culinary equipment in the background I'd have thought it was in an art museum :D

>>46 I say it count because I was a culinary highschool student

33 it chopped up hotdogs coocked in a pan with onions and bell peppers and honey musterd

Bump

>>48 lol. Thanks~ Naw, most the cracks got made when putting the damn thing together! lol.

>>50 oh, I've done that before. It's pretty good~

So what's new and interesting in the world of the culinary students?

>>52 Went by my community college and the new culinary building looking good. Outside:99% done Inside:I want to say somewhere around 25-75% done
They say it will be done for fall sem. but the chef say at least 2 kitchens will be done

>>53 That's really cool ^^ Ya know what. I can see it now! Some day we're all famous chefs. Gonna do a tv show together, not know it's each other until we start posting on here "guess what I'm doing" from our phones, the have that realization and be like DUDE!!!!!!!" lol.

>>54 well I was thinking going on Chopped sometime when I get out of school and after I learn some on the job skills.

>>55 Meh, I'm not really interested in doing game shows. >_> Idk why, but they seam kinda staged to me.

Bump.

Going to Culinary School right now. I'll be finishing up Stocks, Soups, and Sauces next week then we'll start Intro to Advanced Cookery.

>>58 awesome! what school are you going to?

>>59
Platt College. I have my practical exam on Sauces tomorrow then Soups on Thursday. Sorry for the late reply. I've been busy as hell trying to study for the written exam. Fuck conversions! UGH!

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! My baking final in Wednesday and Thursday. My pastry final is the Monday and Tuesday after that. And I graduate the week after that. O.O ........................ I'M FREAKING OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can do it!

>>61 Remember to have a good plan on what you are going to do. Do some dry run through on what you going to do so you don't have to rely on looking at your plan so much the day before. And remember to breathe. Good luck

You are lucky because I have to do 17 classes after the fall semester before I graduate. DAMN the 4 Englishes classes I need to take. In other news I might be going to the salad\dessert station at my work this fall.

>>62 Thank you~

>>63 I pretty much got a game plan..... I'm just nervious. And congradulations!

>>64 While I am a bit scare because I am the second person there that work prep, but the golf season will end soon ( I work at a restaurant at a golf course) so it with get a bit slow. There are 2 other salad\dessert people but one is going to college (he will quit I believe) and the other is going into her senior year of highschool so she might want limit days to work. And I help out a bit during my first summer when I don't know as much and have nothing else to do. So couple more weeks to go.

Does Simon (that russian person from durarara) count?

>>66 I say no. Don't know what the others say

I cook, but I'm not really a chef, per se. I don't go to school or anything for it, so the extent of what I know is what I've been taught by my mom and what I've found out myself. I can come up with recipes of my own, but I'm horrible at following anyone else's ;-;

>>68 This thread is not for seeing who can cook, but for anyone who study culinary arts and\or went into or has been in the food service industry.

I eat babies...

^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>70 Same here.

My mom teaches cooking to little kids at the daycare she works at. The kids are all 5 to 12 years old and she's getting her own space so she can get the buisness really going.

I past my finals :D I'm graduating in 8 days!!!!!!!!!! ^^

>>73 Congratulation

Im hoping to go to culinary school in the next few years. The one I want to go to is really expensive though...

>>75 What school do you want to go to? This what I say on the money issue try and get as many scholarships as you can

>>75 expensive, but worth it!

>>69 Doesn't mean I can't comment :/

So like, will I see any of you on those food network shows like Chopped or Cupcake wars?

GIVE ME A HEADS UP, I WANT TO WATCH

I'm not a cooking student but my mom's a cooking teacher for kids^^. She taught me how to cook alot things when I was younger I can even make icecream!

>>78 I guess it's fine if you post so long as your not an ass whole like you normally are. >_>

>>79 O_O I really don't want to be on any of those shows....

>>80 :D Awesome! I haven't made icecream yet >_> but I know how to make it if I wanted to.

>>81 Why not? It could be fun, and bring attention to you as a chef o3o

>>82 I can draw attention to myself threw hard work, creativity, and working my way up the ranks. Not going onto the big screen, get ppl who have never tried my food to love me, and make a bunch of money just for being able to look into the camera right.

>>83 I didn't mean it in a bad way, lol

I just enjoy watching those shows, whether you feel the same way or not is just a matter of preference so sorry if I offended you :I

>>84 It's ok ^^ I wasn't offended~

I am officially a graduate from Baking and Pastry! :D

First day on salad station went good.

I had culinary arts in high school in level 1 and 2 , so i have to Diploma's lol xD

Something funny happen today. I ask my boss how to refill the nitrous canister. After we clean it we put pint of heavy cream in and he thought he had sabayon but he got sour cream\salsa mixture that we use for something else. He tasted it because it seem wrong some how and ask what we put in. He ask some body else to try it after we know what we put in it. All in all we had to open it without releasing the nitrous.

>>88 lol. That doesn't exactly count I don't think ^^"

>>89 O_O Alrighty then......

11 days until I start school again. I'm so excited!!!!!!!!! ^-^ I miss being in the kitchen all day~

>>90 Well this is my 3rd week of school. Beverage Management ( so I am learning about alcohol) and Menu Planning and Marketing
( which is half a sem. only one day a week)

>>91 Lol. Well, this year is going to be great! Because I took all the academic classes last year I don't have to take managing, math, health, nutrition, sevsafe, etc. Just cooking for me :3

In a way, I am a culinary student. Gettin' mah food handluhs' cahd' In a few days, braaaaw' (All cheezy references aside, I AM getting my food handling card in a few days)

After half of a semester I think I will retake menu planning and marketing.
Tomorrow would be my final class but it got cancel because the guest that my class were doing their business plan for can't make it. I need to send a recorded presentation to the teacher so him and the guest can see it. Mine business idea was a fast casual Caribbean\fusion restaurant.

Anyone other that me planning on focusing on bartending?

>>95 Probably not. I hope you learn how to pair drinks with food because it will be good to learn if you work as a bartender at a place that serve food.

OH MY GO I HAVE BEEN SO BUSY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! O_O Chef has me come in early to help mise everything out for the day. RAWR ><

So, I'm gonna try out for the culinary team. Anyone got any good ideas for what I can do with Chicken, wild mushrooms, butternut squash, cauliflower, Yukon Gold potatoes, and spinach? I have one hour to make one dish, plated twice, using all these ingredients. I can also use anything other ingredients that I want, but I have to use all the mandatory ones.

IDEAS WOULD BE A GREAT HELP!!! T^T

>>98 Sauteed chicken breast with a wild mushroom and cauliflower cream sauce with roasted potatoes (seasoned them with salt, pepper, garlic powder, paprika, and herbs)and sauteed spinach and butternut squash. I bet you can do it in an hour but it will take time. And this is just off the top of my head so you can change anything you want.

I wish my school had culinary team but, the program is new. I use to do FCCLA culinary team in high school. Best time of my life.

>>99 thanks :) I was thinking something like that. I was just seeing if there was any other awesome ideas out there.

You should have come to OCCI :3 We are awesome. OH! We got 5th plaace in the Culinary Olympics. >_> Not first, but still. 5th in the world isn't bad....

I'm still in the middle of deciding whether to go into culinary school or be an elementary school teacher. I bake whenever I have the chance to.

I wish my High School had some sort of Home Economics or Culinary class... Somehow my first attempts are usually great then the 2nd is almost always a failure...

>>101 This what I say go to culinary school first than go to school to become a teacher. When you are in school for being a teacher you can work part time at a restaurant that pay well to help out to pay for your schooling. When you are a teacher during the summer you can work at a golf course's restaurant or a restaurant that need help during the summer. Plus you might not get a teaching job right away or in between teaching jobs, so you need a way to get money if you don't have a lot.

But if you need a reason why to go to culinary school.
Here it is
Culinary arts is not just cooking and baking. It is also give you management skill, nutrition knowledge, and you might learn about alcohol.

I wasn't aware such a topic existed, but I am glad it does.

I'm a culinary student that is currently not in college due to no transportation and no job to support paying for everything. I plan on specializing in baking and pastry, though. I think it'd be nice to open a small bakery in a little town somewhere...

I'm up in Michigan, at NMC.

>>103 Nice to meet you. I from Ohio myself. Look at the older posts if you want to learn more about me or Erika.

>>101 Culinary would be cool, then maybe you could become a teacher for elementary kids, and teach them about baking and culinary. RECRUIT THEM YOUNG! :D

>>102 This.

>>103 Konichiwa ^^ Very nice to meet you. I'm from Oregon. OCCI (Oregon Coast Culinary Institute) And your Culinary school isn't a part of college? O.o I mean, OCCI students are also college students. We get an Associates Degree in Applied Science of Baking and Pastry Arts or Associates Degree in Applied Science of Culinary Arts. I already have my baking degree and am now getting my culinary degree.

OH! IZ GOT A JOB!!!!!!!!!!! :D I'm doing my Baking externship ^^

HELP!

SO~ Our school is trying to be told that, even if students have their OLCC, they can't poor wine or touch any open bottle of alcohol. We can't even cook with it! WTF?!

>>106 I can see if the students are new and can't be trusted that how it was when I was a junior in high school. In my senior year we use alcohol a lot (beer, wine, and triple sec) and my chef told us to not joke around or we can't use it any more. Learning about beers, spirits, and wines can give you more respect for them if you are not old enough to drink. And cooking with alcohol is a more advance basic of culinary arts and the alcohol that is cooked is almost all the way gone.
This what I say talk to the supervisors of your school and say why the students need to use alcohol in culinary arts. If you need help, I am learning about alcohol right now.

What is OLCC anyway?

>>107 Well, I can understand that in HIGH SCHOOL. But this is college. A College Culinary School. We are earning Associates Degrees in Applied Science. We NEED to learn about alcohol and how to use it! It's a HUGE part of our industry! How can you justify giving us an Associates Degrees in Applied Science: Culinary Arts, if we don't know at least the basics with cooking with everything? It's the supervisors that are being told this by, I think it's the state, that we're not suppose to be using alcohol.

It's a permit that here in Oregon you have to have in legally serve alcohol.

I will just going to re cap what is happening in my culinary learn. I woke up late for my beverage management (alcohol class) final but, the teacher understand because I never miss a class. This semester I am taking career management and servsafe.
Career management- reading "How to win friends & influence people in the digital age" and my teacher write about restaurants in cleveland and does a food segment for a news station called hungry adventure (you can look it up on youtube).
Servsafe- only have 2 more years of being certify but, I still have to take the class. Hopefully by the end of 2014 I will be done with the college courses and it better this way because I don't have to be certify again until 2018.

My update on school- This year is easier and harder! I don't have any academics because I took them all last year. But it's harder because I work from 6am-12:30pm then have culinary from 3pm-8pm, when I get home I'm either cleaning, doing homework, or looking for a weekend job.

I'm not a graduate or a student of culinary arts(I'm an IT xD) but my hobby is cooking and baking :) Whenever I have the free time or bored in my home, I do cook or bake. :)I am very very happy when someone is satisfied on my creations :) especially my lover :3

>>111 if you love it so much why not follow in as a career? ^^

I am thinking about that :D maybe a business or such? :) Although I need to study a little bit xD OR study full time as a culinary student :) im still young xD age doesn't matter hahaha..

Well, if you do go Oregon Coast Culinary Institute
is a REALLY good place to go! ^^

I'm not a culinary student but my mom is a cooking teacher. I've learned alot of stuff from her. It's pretty cool

Today in Career Management there was a guest speaker named Eric Williams. He own Momocho which was on diner, drive in and dives. One thing that he said for all the time he speak to my teacher's class. No one has asked him to do a stage (gain work experience without pay) at his business after he say it was OK. Maybe I will do it during spring break.

>>116 O_O wait...... I think I know who- ..... If it's that guy that was at the Sysco Food Show in Portland Oregon last year he's a nasty pervert and an ass hole >_> I watched him sexually harass my Chef and one of the other students.

I have no idea about that but here a picture

.... No, that's a different guy. lol.

yep yep, studying commercial cookery. statement of attainment certificate II and Barista skills

Final on Monday. Wish me luck!

Final on Monday. Wish me luck!

>>121 While good luck, I already done with the first half of the semester at my school. A bit happy that my birthday fell on the week that I have spring break.

>>123 Spring break doesn't start for me till Wednesday. And Thank you ^^

Man it been a long time. Is anyone still out there?

I'm studying Architecture but I'm going to switch to Culinary Arts next semester. Also, I haven't told my mom yet D:

What's it like in culinary school

>>127 Exactly like Shokugeki no Soma. Everything in that anime is absolutely correct. 100% fact.

>>127 pretty much you start with the basic: a lot of knife cuts (not cutting yourself), cooking techniques, and sanitation
Once the basic is done, the school might have a student run restaurant
I say after you learned the basic, do some self studies on different cuisines and ingredients

I'm a culinary student in high school currently. Just doing labs in stuff rn.

has any body tried pb and hony (sorry I can't spell that well)

Greetings Dollars,

In short no, at least not professionally. However a necessary skill turned into a fruitful passion and I elevated to my families second best cook, first place going to my Aunt who is exceptionally skilled and I aspire to one day take that title from her.
We all have recipes that we're more confident in making, and those that we prefer and find more rewarding once the dish is done. Personally I've become quite an adapt European specialist chef, from Italian, Greek, French, German, British and many in between, I've taken to the habit of learning a new recipe every month. I find a new suggestion and practice it through the month until I am proud to add the recipe to my list of "Can Cook".

I'm technically a 'chef', But I just work at a Deli shop... we make sandwiches, some soups, and salads... It technically could be called a chef...

Id say for me it would be tacos and those gross vitamin tablets

Not a culinary student, but I am the best chef in the house. I can make a variety of Mexican dishes (enchiladas, chiles rellenos, tamales, etc). I've started learning some Korean recipes as well, my favorite at the moment is Korean Curry Rice!

I am hoping that when I graduate high school that I can get into Sait to learn different culinary styles