This 24 month professional cookery apprenticeship is available for 16-24 year olds – paying at least the minimum wage for your age and not the much lower apprenticeship rate – opens opportunities for a career in one of the most exciting areas of hospitality. Completion leads to a City & Guilds level 5 qualification in Professional Cookery, and there is also the potential of an extended apprenticeship leading to a City & Guilds level 6 in Professional Cookery.
- During your apprenticeship you will cover many areas of working in a professional kitchen and, depending on your partner hotel, these may include:
- Health and Safety in Hospitality
- Working effectively as part of a team
- Maintaining and handling knives
- Preparing vegetables, fish, shellfish, meat, poultry and game for basic dishes
- Cook-chill and cook–freeze food
- Cooking and finishing simple bread products, vegetable, fish, shellfish, meat, poultry and game dishes
- Preparing, cooking and finishing a wide range of basic dishes
- Contributing to sustainable practice in kitchens
