Food plating and presentation can set the tone of any restaurant or café, making it an important skill for students interested in culinary careers. These students must have a good understanding of plating tools and the art of arrangement to excel in this field. The Food Plating and Presentation Kit can help students learn just that! Read on to discover the engaging activities and components this supplemental kit can bring to your culinary lessons.
Realistic Model Food
Give students opportunities to practice their plating skills with the 33 realistic models in the Food Plating and Presentation Kit. Buying real food for entire classes of students to practice plating with can be expensive. These models give students the initial practice they need without using costly consumables. The set includes various breads, greens, meats, and fruits.
Real Tools of the Trade
Students can hone their food plating and presentation skills with real tools of the trade! This kit comes with 10 Chef Plating Toolkits, each consisting of a stainless-steel offset spatula, three culinary tweezers, a sauce-decorating spoon, a plating spoon with solid bowl, a solid plating spoon, and a culinary packet roll.
Dry Erase Dinner Plates
The Food Plating and Presentation Kit comes with 20 dry erase dinner plates and markers to use as you teach students the importance and anatomy of the plate, labeling them to show students where the buffer border, cheek, and bottom are. Students can sketch their plate designs with the markers before plating with real food.
Printable Plating Technique and Vocabulary Cards
Help students study food plating and presentation tools and techniques with this kit’s printable scenario and vocabulary cards. Read the tool or technique aloud to the class and ask for volunteers to describe it or provide the description and ask for the technique or tool. You can also divide students into small groups, each with their own set of cards. Have one person pick a card and read it aloud to the group. The first person in the group to provide the right answer gets a point and is the next person to read a card. These cards offer students a takeaway that weaves language arts skills into food plating lessons, helping students build a professional vocabulary.
Check out a sample of the cards here.
Standards-Based Curriculum
Save time lesson planning or find inspiration for new activities to add to your current lessons with the Food Plating and Presentation Kit’s downloadable curriculum. The curriculum features 12 lessons on topics like correcting plating mistakes, portion size, and plating trends. The entire curriculum boats up to 25 teaching hours and comes with presentation slides, student activities, and pre- and post-assessments.
See a complete curriculum overview here.
Additional Resources
- Find creative ideas for teaching food plating and presentation in this blog post
- Discover more tools to add hands-on learning to culinary lessons here
- Watch this free, on-demand webinar to learn about engaging ways to teach food plating
