Explorers Chef Activity Badge
Explorers Chef Activity Badge
After a long day of activities and challenges, is there anything better than a well cooked meal?
Choose 1 of the following options:
Cooking for others
- Plan a full, balanced menu for a group of Explorers or other people on a residential experience covering all meals for at least four days.
You should consider what facilities will be available to you – will you have access to a full kitchen or are you cooking on an open fire?
- Cook and serve your planned menu, demonstrating preparation and serving skills.
- Demonstrate proper storage and cooking.
You should demonstrate your knowledge of hygiene in the kitchen and how to prevent food poisoning.
- Budget for your menu and assist with shopping for the ingredients.
Baking
- Maintain high standards of hygiene.
- Demonstrate how planning and preparation can make life easier when baking.
- Bake and cost the following from scratch – no packet mixes or pre-made shop bought ingredients allowed:
- Three different large cakes (20cm or bigger) with different icings and decoration, using techniques like rubbing in, creaming, melting and whisking.
- A sweet or savoury tart, such as a quiche or a tarte tatin.
- 12 iced and filled cupcakes.
- 12 biscuits, iced using the flooding method.
- 12 scones.
- A loaf of bread using yeast.
- 12 flatbreads.
Tips
- Requirement 1a can be done as part of a group. Everyone should plan their own menus and then make a decision as a group on which ones will feature on the camp menu.
- If Option 2; baking is chosen, consider what you can do with the items after you have finished. You could combine it with the Fundraising Activity Badge and sell them for a good cause.
- Remember, costs may be reduced by shopping as a group and buying in bulk
April 2024.
Requirements can be adapted to suit each young persons abilities. See our guidance on flexibility.