Today, gastronomy is a sector with wide and varied professional opportunities, and the profession of chef has achieved great social recognition. A good chef must know from the base the kitchen management techniques, the instruments to be used, the treatment of raw materials, and the traditional and most innovative culinary preparations, to successfully achieve his incorporation into this sector as a professional.. With this objective, this course of preparation for PROFESSIONAL CUISINE IN RESTAURANTS takes place in a practical and real environment, in the School's own restaurant, combining theoretical training with practical preparation, which will allow the student to develop practical skills in the kitchen or expand their culinary knowledge and improve their techniques. Duration: 240 hours (60 hours theoretical + 180 practical) Content: BLOQUE 1. INTRODUCTION: Food manipulation and handling, Occupational Risk Prevention in the kitchen. Kitchen organization, machinery, and tools. BLOQUE 2. KITCHEN BASES BLOQUE 3. BASIC PRODUCTS OF THE KITCHEN BLOQUE 4. KITCHEN TECHNOLOGY. GOURMET PRODUCTS AND PREPARATIONS BLOQUE 5. FOOD TECHNOLOGY BLOQUE 6. CREATION AND PRESENTATION OF DISHES
The great vocation that nowadays exist for cuisine, within the frame of a country with such an extraordinary gastronomic richness and tradition, must be carried to the professional field in a coherent, practical, and efficient way. This training will allow the student to get to know the world of professional cuisine through the knowledge of food and the technology applied to it, learning the conservation techniques, manipulation and preparation, nutritional aspects and quality control and food security, while learning about different cuisines from all over the world and other complementary gastronomic products. The students will also learn about the aspects related to restaurant management and investigation and innovation for the development of new products with the aim of training future chefs in a comprehensive way. The theoretical-practical training is complemented with professional internships in national and international restaurants which will ease the student’s access to the professional culinary world with guarantees of success.
With this course, the student will know the way a kitchen works and how it must be managed and they will specialize in preparation and production techniques of culinary products through the knowledge of food and its technology, conservation techniques, manipulation and elaboration, nutritional aspects, and quality control and food safety. They will know the characteristics of food and the products with which they will develop culinary preparations to include in the menus; they will be able to manage the intrinsic processes of the kitchen area related to the safety and hygiene requisites.
The school offers a specialized training program in cooking and gastronomy, which allow students enter the professional world by studying food and raw materials, its science and technology, meanwhile learning conservation techniques, handling, and preparation of the same, without forgetting nutritional aspects, quality control, and food safety, all with the knowledge of world cuisines and other complementary gastronomic products. But also, the student will learn aspects related to the management of catering companies and with research and innovation for the development of new culinary products. All this with the aim of integrally training future chefs and pastry chefs. The theoretical-practical training at the School is complemented by internships in national and international catering companies, which will facilitate access to the professional world of cooking with guarantees of success.