Assessment Practice Lesson

This lesson we practiced our dish that we are cooking for assessment. I have chosen to cook a chicken stir fry. To be honest the practice cook did not go very well. I found that i was very pushed for time and next time know to get into it quicker. First i grabbed all of the ingredients that i could see but it was hard as there was many people running around and rushing too. I wasn't prepared on how to cook the rice. At home we have a rice cooker and obviously i didn't realize till i started to cook the rice that i didn't know how to cook the pasta in a saucepan. I decided to just cook it like i would with pasta. So i boiled the water with a bit of salt then added the rice. The rice actually turned out quite nice. Excepts next time i have to make sure to wash it more times to get rid of the starch as the rice was a big gooey. Another issue with the rice was that I didn't know how much water to cups of rice to put in. I google it and found that for every 1 cup of rice i needed 2 cups of water. Taking the time to google this a figure it our slowed me down heaps. Next time i will already know how much cups of rice and water to put in. I also didn't plan the amount of rice out correctly as when it was cooked there was way to much rice for two servings. Next time i will half the amount i put in. I think i put 4 cups of rice so i will bring it down to just 2. The cooking of the actual stir fry went quite well however next time i need to prepare the ingredients better so they are ready to throw in when they need to be. I found myself quickly chopping the broccoli while it was meant to be in. Next time i will know to have it already chopped and ready to go. The chicken cooked well. however the Wok i found was a bit hard to get the right temperature. At one point i had it sizzling to much and then it was hardly cooking. next time i will have to try to control the temperature and keep it consistent. Overall the only major problem i had was time and the cooking of the rice.