Videos

VIDEO: Consumer Advice for Food Hygiene in the UK and Abroad

The advice from Dr Lisa Ackerley in this video is how to react to a case of food poisoning, and what you should be on the look out for in hotels or restaurants abroad.

VIDEO: Food Safety and Hygiene Expert Showreel

Dr Lisa Ackerley is a Professor of Environmental Health and an expert in  food safety and as consultant adviser.

You will also see some Hygiene horror stories!

VIDEO: How to Cook Steak

This is an instructional video on how to cook a truly mouthwatering steak, make sure you use a high heat and remember to cook the way you like it, be it about 1 minute on each side or more for medium and well done.  This video might make you feel rather hungry…

VIDEO: How to Prepare Steak

Its always good to follow a good technique for preparing to cook steaks, and if you wish to learn the method and reasons behind it, then this instructional video will help.  Searing the steak adds to its flavour and the steak is cooked right away in this video.

VIDEO: How to Cook Duck

If you have some Duck breasts and want nice and simple instructions on how to cook them then look no further.  Duck can be used in a similar fashion to beef in that it is often recommended to be served with a bit of pink, about medium rare to medium.  Make sure you season well!

VIDEO: How to Chop Herbs

Many recipes specify using ‘finely chopped herbs’, but you have to be careful not to spoil the herbs as they are being chopped, and this instructional video helps explain a basic trick for retaining the potency of herbs and the correct way to chop them.

VIDEO: Tools of the trade

A series of different tools of the trade are used in this instructional video, with plenty going on all at the same time. So you can pick up ways of using them and incorporate some of the advice here into your own food preparation.

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VIDEO: Heatproof Hands

You can always learn new things! Hands can get very hot in the kitchen, and what you are seeing here is a willingness to learn more about the exposure of hands to hot temperatures when cooking over oven or a stove.

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VIDEO: How to sharpen a Knife

Ideally, you should sharpen a knife each time before you are going to use it.  This way it remain consistently sharp.  The technique on show here is popular in high stress kitchens, just don’t lose any fingers copying it!
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