Cooking Up Confidence With The Care Kitchen Team

Care Kitchen was founded in 2014 as a cooking school for adults with a disability. Each Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday you will find six amazing participants achieving some outstanding results, preparing, cooking and presenting a wide variety of dishes using a range of cooking methods.

The point of difference is that all of this is done from a professional outlook and the participants proudly wear a chef’s uniform.

So, what does a typical day look like? Weighing, sifting, beating, baking, cooling, slicing, chopping, measuring, stir frying, stewing, roasting… the list goes on. Include a lot of respect, chatter and laughs, cleaning rosters, morning tea and lunch breaks as well as presenting our finished dishes.

Care Kitchen dishes are varied, from simple stir-fries to beef wellingtons, scones to lemon meringue, pies and rum cakes and even toffee apples and dagwood dogs for show week.

Wherever possible, recipes are started from scratch or from the basics to minimise the use of convenience products.

Each day crews at Care Kitchen are incidentally learning life skills and gaining lifelong friends.

This unique organisation is not for profit and the committee is run by volunteers, where the instructors are qualified chefs and some of the participants have their own independent support workers alongside them in class. Most crews are supported by their NDIS plans.

Unfortunately, Care Kitchen is currently doing it a little tough and are finding it difficult to source instructors and committee members.

If you would like to be part of this amazing organisation please give it some consideration, check Care Kitchen out on Facebook and if you are interested… president Peter can be contacted on 0418755331.

Join the team today and embark on a rewarding role at Care Kitchen Mackay.

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