We want to prepare and cook a chicken curry for a class celebration. Ive heard chicken is a high-risk food; what are the D&T Associations views?
Children should learn how to prepare high-risk foods; it would be a shame to avoid this issue. High-risk foods support the growth of bacteria. Make it part of the lesson to tell the children how important it is to store chicken correctly (datemarking, carrying from shop to home, temperature in fridge), defrost whole chickens thoroughly, cook chicken properly, how to test that it is cooked, how to store cooked chicken, when not to reheat, also a high risk of cross-contamination. You should look to purchase the Association’s ‘Risk Assessment in Secondary School Design and Technology Teaching Environments’ available from the Online Shop.
