Join a practical hospitality training program designed to provide you with essential hands-on skills in pizza making, barista service, basic cooking techniques, pasta preparation, and tandoor chicken marination. Build confidence, improve kitchen and service skills, and develop a strong understanding of food preparation and professional hospitality standards.
Begin with wood-fired pizza training and learn the fundamentals of making quality pizza using a traditional wood-fired oven. Prepare and handle pizza dough, including the importance of flour, water, yeast, salt, mixing, kneading, and resting. Learn basic techniques for portioning and shaping dough into pizza bases without damaging the structure.
Prepare simple pizza sauces, select suitable toppings, and understand the importance of portion control. Prepare the wood-fired oven, manage the fire, understand oven temperature, and position the pizza correctly for even cooking. Practice launching, turning, and removing pizzas from the oven safely.
Next, move on to basic barista training. Learn the basic operation and safe use of a commercial espresso machine and coffee grinder. Cover coffee grinding, dosing, tamping, extracting espresso, and understanding the basic factors that affect coffee quality. Identify an espresso that has been extracted correctly and make adjustments when the coffee is too weak, too bitter, too fast, or too slow.
Practice preparing basic milk-based coffees such as flat whites, lattes, and cappuccinos. Hygiene, cleaning, equipment care, and maintaining a clean coffee station will also be included as important parts of professional barista work.
The basic cooking section will introduce you to fundamental kitchen skills that can be applied across different types of food preparation. Learn safe knife handling, cutting techniques, food preparation, measuring ingredients, mise en place, and basic kitchen organization.
Learn the fundamentals of preparing and cooking pasta. Understand different types of pasta, correct portioning, boiling pasta properly, and achieving the desired texture, including al dente. Prepare a basic pasta dish and understand how sauces, seasoning, vegetables, meat, and other ingredients can be combined. Learn the importance of timing so that pasta and sauce are ready together for service.
Finally, learn how to prepare a basic marinade for tandoor-style chicken. Learn about the purpose of marination, ingredient selection, seasoning, yogurt-based marinades, spices, herbs, and balancing flavors. Prepare chicken correctly before marination, ensuring the marinade coats the chicken evenly, and understand appropriate refrigeration and food-safety practices during the marination process.
Gain an understanding of how marination affects flavor, tenderness, and final cooking results. Where appropriate, the training will also demonstrate the basic principles of cooking marinated chicken in a tandoor or suitable commercial cooking equipment.
