Library Learning Commons: Culinary Arts: Media / Video

The Art of Food Presentation
This video demonstrates techniques used by professional chefs to create and serve food that pleases the eye as well as the taste buds. The principles of color, shape, texture, as well as garnishes and plate choices are explained.
Food Planning for Special Occasions
High-profile chefs and organizers offer advice on menu planning, kitchen workflows, time management, and delivering top-tier service at all times. This combines interviews with detailed footage of culinary professionals in action.
Kitchen Presentation Skills: Plating the Meal - Segment 5 (02:27)
In the kitchen, decisions are made on how to present a dish as well as the safest and best way of handling the food, such as using serving utensils and rubber gloves. Portion sizes should be uniform on all plates.
Food Science
Steve Spangler from DYI Sci, shows you science you can eat!

Kitchen Safety: Focusing on Safety
More than 60 percent of injuries in the food service industry involve kitchen workers. This video introduces the kitchen safety series, and features well-known B.C. chefs who offer safety tips and lessons from their own experiences.
Kitchen Safety: Preventing Burns and Scalds
Workers who are constantly exposed to heat, either from flames or steam, are at risk of burns and scalds. This video demonstrates safe work procedures for working around heat, steam, and hot kitchen tools.
Kitchen Safety: Preventing Slips, Trips, and Falls
Slips, trips, and falls due to wet or greasy floors are common occurrences in kitchens. This video demonstrates safe work procedures to prevent injuries caused by slips, trips, and falls.
Kitchen Safety: Preventing Lifting Injuries
Lifting is a common task in kitchens. This video shows how to store kitchen supplies properly and demonstrates safe work procedures to prevent lifting injuries.
Kitchen Safety: Preventing Cuts from Meat Slicers
Meat slicers can cause serious injuries to kitchen workers. This video demonstrates how to operate and clean meat slicers safely to prevent injuries.
Kitchen Safety: Using Deep Fryers Safely
Using and cleaning a deep fryer improperly can cause serious injuries to kitchen workers. This video demonstrates how to work with and around deep fat fryers safely.

TED Talks - Culinary
TED is a nonprofit devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading." It began in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from: Technology, Entertainment, Design but has broadened to include all kinds of important topics.
TED Talks for Foodies
These talks from chefs, cookbook writers and passionate foodies celebrate all things edible.

These are set up to be used in individual sections or as a whole.

Numeracy in Hospitality
This 6 part series covers topics such as: food safety, portioning, seating plans and more.
Food - Delicious Science
This 3 part series discusses how food affects our brains, the powerful effect taste has on our tongue and nose and the hidden chemistry in every mouthful that keeps our bodies fit and healthy.
Catering Skills
This 2 part series introduces the world of commercial meal preparation and explore an array of culinary skills.
The Food Detectives
This 3 part series explores cooking and health.

Baking Conversion Chart | by FooD HuT
This video shows measurement charts in grams, ml, cups, tablespoon and teaspoon.
Basic Food Plating Techniques
Make sure your foods look as good as they taste with the right food plating techniques! Watch the video and then shop our selection of plating tools to get started.
Minimum Cooking Temperatures | National Restaurant Association
Time & temperature control is a critical aspect of food safety. Make sure you know the proper internal cooking temperatures for different food items!
Visualizing: Restaurant Operations
The difference between what happens in a perfect world to what can happen in reality.

Culinary Arts