How to Give a Food Demonstration - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

1 / 49
About This Presentation
Title:

How to Give a Food Demonstration

Description:

Finger nails clean & natural. Quiet makeup. No jewelry. 2003 ... Take extra pieces of equipment & food if possible. Put dirty equipment on a tray ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

Number of Views:190
Avg rating:3.0/5.0
Slides: 50
Provided by: barbar1
Category:

less

Transcript and Presenter's Notes

Title: How to Give a Food Demonstration


1
How to Give a Food Demonstration
  • Barbara Brown, Ph.D., R.D./L.D.
  • Food Specialist
  • Oklahoma Cooperative
  • Extension Service

2
Keys to a good demonstration
  • Know what you want to accomplish
  • Research
  • Demonstrate to reinforce the objective
  • Organize
  • Practice

3
Keys to a good demonstration
  • Be sure all can see
  • Introduce the topic
  • Involve the audience
  • Review objective(s)
  • Make it your own

4
Know your goal
  • Educate
  • Awareness
  • Knowledge
  • Action

5
Know your goal
  • Promote
  • Programs
  • Products
  • Combination

6
Research
2003
  • Topic
  • Information accurate current
  • Usable by audience
  • Not already known
  • Builds on past meetings
  • Narrowed to fit audience time

7
Number of points to cover
  • Time available
  • Audience
  • Age
  • Background
  • Your own knowledge level
  • Research
  • Experience

8
Research the audience
  • The more you know the better
  • Age, gender, skill knowledge level, economic
    status

9
Research location
  • Type of setting
  • Intimate, formal, relaxed, etc.

10
Location
  • How far away
  • May impact food safety
  • Get directions
  • mapquest.com

11
Location
  • Help to unload?

12
Location
  • Can audience see, hear?

13
Location
  • Where are the lights?
  • How do they work?

14
Research equipment
  • What is available /or usable on site
  • Water, refrigeration, electricity, gas, table,
    oven, etc.
  • Mirror, microphone
  • Limits movement

15
Equipment
  • Audio-visual
  • Operate demonstrate?
  • Place to hang poster

16
Research help available
  • Before, during, after
  • What will they do?
  • Do they need training?

17
The demonstration
  • Reinforce key point
  • Choose techniques, recipes to get across point
  • Example dont premeasure when teaching measuring
    is the goal
  • Keep it simple
  • Especially when beginning

18
The food
  • Should smell great taste wonderful
  • Try to let at least one person sample
  • Colorful garnished
  • Show finished product

19
You are now a model
  • At least a role model
  • Consider all actions

20
What what you dont say says
  • Safe food handling behavior
  • Good nutrition choices
  • Good posture
  • Speak clearly slowly
  • Use good grammar
  • Avoid nervous twitches, habits
  • How you eat

21
How to dress
  • Look professional
  • Comfortable, neat, clean
  • Finger nails clean natural
  • Quiet makeup
  • No jewelry

22
How to dress
  • Hair nets
  • Gloves
  • Aprons
  • Yes, but not this one
  • Keep it clean, pressed

23
Organize equipment food
  • What recipe/technique to demo?
  • Done ahead, in stages, all at once?

24
Organize the food
  • When do you need to buy it?
  • Time to ripen
  • Avoid spoilage
  • Food safety factors

25
Organize equipment supplies
  • What will you need how many
  • Make lists
  • Food
  • Equipment
  • Supplies
  • Notes, handouts

26
Often forgotten
  • Potholders, timer, spoons/knives, cutting board,
    serving equipment, extension cord, appliance
    cords, sampling utensils/plates/cups, tablecloth,
    trays, paper towels

27
Equipment
  • Know how to use it
  • Will audience have access to same equipment at
    home?
  • Suggest substitutions

28
Demonstration tips
  • Use correct equipment for each task
  • Use transparent bowls pans when possible
  • Cover table

29
Tips
  • Use trays bring forward when needed
  • Notes on tray include
  • Recipe
  • Chatter points

30
Tips
  • Scrape bowls pans clean with rubber scrapper
  • Take extra pieces of equipment food if possible
  • Put dirty equipment on a tray
  • Keep table clean, clear

31
Tips
  • A damp cloth under bowls holds them steady cuts
    noise
  • Wooden spoons are quieter than metal
  • Tip bowls pans for viewing
  • Care not to spill

32
Tips
  • Hold bowls from bottom, not lip
  • Dont talk while using very noisy equipment
  • Spill it? Dont use it.

33
Tips
  • Tilt pan lids away from face
  • Place lids upside down on table or range
  • Have waste basket beneath demonstration table

34
Tip
  • End with finished product on cleared table

35
Double check, triple check
  • During practice
  • Before you leave
  • Before the demonstration

36
Practice
  • Frees mind to do 2 things at once
  • Consider posture, grammar, vocabulary, facial
    expressions

37
How much practice?
  • As often as you can
  • With food equipment
  • As pantomime
  • Before a mirror
  • Get critiqued

38
Everyone needs to see
  • Mirrors
  • Tilted bowls, pans
  • Small groups up close
  • Posters
  • Video camera connected to monitor
  • Pictures on PowerPoint
  • Other ideas?

39
Introduce the topic
  • Smile
  • Prepare an introduction
  • Story, joke
  • Put audience at ease
  • No more than 2-3 minutes

40
The DemonstrationInvolve the audience
  • Make eye contact
  • Smile
  • Talk while working
  • Ask questions
  • Answer questions

41
Involve the audience
  • Use humor
  • Ask for help
  • With timing, following recipes, distributing
    handouts, sampling

42
Review the objective(s)
  • Use Barneys method
  • Tell what youll teach
  • Teach
  • Tell what you taught

43
Make it your own
  • Let your personality show through

44
Expect the unexpected
  • Be prepared
  • Be flexible
  • Enjoy the experience
  • Learn from each demonstration

45
Sample demonstration
  • Canned Tomato Salsa

46
Canned Tomato Salsa
  • 15-ounce can diced tomatoes
  • drain reserve liquid
  • 1/2 onion, finely chopped
  • 1 pepper, finely chopped
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • 2 tablespoons cilantro, chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon cumin
  • Juice of 1/2 lime juice

47
Review
  • Know what you want to accomplish
  • Research
  • Demonstrate to reinforce the objective
  • Organize
  • Practice

48
Review
  • Be sure all can see
  • Introduce the topic
  • Involve the audience
  • Review the objective(s)
  • Make it your own

49
(No Transcript)
Write a Comment
User Comments (0)
About PowerShow.com