What was your goal: Investigate
food technology and the impact this has had on the Hospitality industry and
society.
How long did you have to do the assignment and what
was involved
We had about 4
weeks to do the assignment.
What was involved was we had to first do a number of
research topics and find out information about pasta food packaging and
processing and food products. Then we had to make a package for our practical
part of the assignment and design the logo and label it.
How long did you have for each part of the assignment:
Researching: we had about 3 weeks to do the
researxching part of the assignment with was really short but ok
practical
work: we had about 2 weeks
for the practical work. This was ok but a bit too long
Was the time adequate
Yes and no was the time adequate. Yes because we had a
very long time and no because it was but like weeks 3 for both jess and I
didn't really know what to do
What did you learn?
In the topics I learn that there are many different
types of packaging and that it takes a lot of time and effort to make a good
product
When doing the practical work:
I learnt that when you don't get what you wanted it
doesn't matter you just have to work with what you have gotten and I have also learnt how to make crabs in
mini hotdogs which is really good
what skills did you need
the skills that we need were how to make crabs and
octopus’s out of mini hot dogs. I also need the skills to manage my time on to
stay before the bell goes
what skills (that you already had) assisted you to
complete the task: eg. ability to read a recipe, use equipment, etc.’
I already knew how to read a recipe and how to
work stove and oven
what skills did you develop in the process of doing
your task
the skills I developed were to cut different types of
meat
What
was the result of your practical exercise (in your opinion).
Comment on:
How successful was the task chosen?
Our task was a success it look amazing and was very
well presented I am very happy at the food jess and I created.
Was your work flow plan helpful in being
organized. Justify your answer
Yes our work flow plan was helpful as it showed us
what we were meant to do next and how long we had to do it in.
How did the finished product look. Comment on contrast
of finished product in terms of colours, flavours, textures, plating,
garnishing.
Our finished product look amazing it was well
colorized and had all different food in it. The flavors were amazing as the
pesto was so strong and amazing the setting it in the box was really good too.
Comment on your planning: Explain in detail if things
went wrong. Explain reasons for your comments.
Nothing went wrong in our planing it was really good
planing and I am very happy about it,.
Would you make this particular item again. Why/why
not. Give reasons.
Yes I would do this topic again as it was really
interesting and fun to do I would
though prefer to do a different meal instead of pasta,
Individual motivation. Did you research adequately
before choosing to make the items chosen? What difficulties did you have when
choosing your menu items?
There was no difficulties in this topic as jess and I
made our own idea and worked from that .
What would you change/ why?
No I would not change because I think our topic was a
success and was very good to do because we came up with the idea on our own and
it tasted amazing. It also was pretty easy to make and was a really fun food to
try
Did you change any aspects of the recipe. Give reasons
for changes.
Yes we did because we didn't get all that we ask for
so we had to work with what we got.
Nutritional considerations:
Did your choice meet the requirements for the group
chosen. Give details on how your items met the dietary requirements of the
groups you chose.
Yes our chose meet the requirements for are chosen
group ith was children parties. It was a good size for them to have a parties
and was actually very healthy for them to have
Explain how you could improve the nutritional content
We could use low fat cheese and reduce salt bacon
other then that it was all good
Comment on the exercise as a whole.
This exercise was so much fun I really enjoyed making
a product for little children and finding out all the different types of
packaging you could use
Was it interesting
Yes it was very interesting and I really like the idea
that we had to make a meal for a
certain age group it was fun to
come up with the idea of the meal instead of getting one of. The Internet
Was it challenging
This topic was not really challenging it was really
fun and pretty easy to understand
What did you learn
I learnt a lot of this in this assignment and it was
very easy to understand I like the assignment and I would do it again
