How to Get Your Kids Cooking

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🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Cooking is a basic survival skill and yet many kids reach adulthood without knowing how to prepare even a simple meal. Meanwhile, other Bay Area kids are producing professional-level dishes on shows like “Kids Baking Championship” and “Chopped Junior.” So how can children get started in the kitchen? Seasoned instructors suggest kicking off with essential skills such as chopping – and, yes kids can use knives without injuring themselves – and learning to read recipes. We’ll talk with culinary teachers, young chefs and you about the best ways to teach kids to cook. Guests: Neelam Patil, chef, educator and CEO, Bliss Belly Kitchen; science teacher at Berkeley Unified School District and founder of Green Pocket Forests founder and CEO, Culinary Artistas Aria Karayil, sixth grader at Diablo Vista Middle School and recent contestant on "Kids Baking Championship" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.9	There's truly something to being able to cook.
1:03.6	When you imagine what you'd like to have for dinner, get the ingredients, or find him in the pantry,
1:08.9	and put everything together.
1:10.6	It's satisfying in a way
1:12.5	that few things in this world are. Today, we're going to talk about how to teach kids to cook,
1:18.3	both as a survival skill, but also as a way of familiarizing them with real food and nutrition.
1:25.1	We've got some instructors and we've got some young chefs.
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