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Quick Kitchen Cook

Official name: Cook: Convenience Foods

A practical kitchen course for your first job in a café, canteen, deli or fast-service kitchen. Learn to prepare, cook and store food safely, from fruit and vegetables to hot and cold dishes.

TypePractical skills course

Where7 towns, or at your venue

You receiveInjongo certificate

Student plating a dish

CATHSSETA-accredited provider 613/P/00381/2022 · Practical, hands-on training · Jeffreys Bay to Oudtshoorn · Injongo certificate

Why this course

Your first step into a kitchen

Many kitchens need staff who can prepare food safely and quickly. This course gives you those skills.

Get hired

Kitchens need safe, reliable hands

You learn the hygiene and safety habits every kitchen manager looks for.

Cook with confidence

Simple food, done properly

Prepare, cook and store everyday dishes the right way.

Grow

A step towards a qualification

Go on to Chef in the Making, our Professional Cookery learnership when you are ready.

The outcome

What you will be able to do

By the end of the course you can do each of these in a working kitchen.

  • Keep yourself, your food and your station hygienic

  • Work safely and securely in a kitchen

  • Receive and store food deliveries correctly

  • Prepare fruit, vegetables and simple dishes

  • Boil, poach and steam food

  • Prepare and serve convenience and reconstituted foods

  • Store cooked food safely

  • Find your way around a kitchen and its equipment

What you learn

8 modules, two parts

Open any module to see what it covers.

Two cooks working at the pass

  • 8 modules

Part 1

A safe kitchen

Hygiene and professional appearance

Personal hygiene, uniform and grooming for food handlers.

Food hygiene

Hygiene in food preparation, cooking and storage.

A safe and secure kitchen

Hazards, accidents and security in the workplace.

Knowing your workplace

The layout, services and equipment of the kitchen.

Part 2

Cooking

Receiving and storing deliveries

Checking, accepting and storing food deliveries.

Preparing and cooking food

Preparing fruit, vegetables and simple hot and cold dishes.

Boiling, poaching and steaming

Three basic cooking methods, step by step.

Convenience and reconstituted foods

Preparing ready-made and reconstituted foods safely.

Ready to start? Leave your number and we call you back.

Quick check

Is this course for you?

Ask yourself these three questions.

  • Do you enjoy working with food?

  • Are you careful and tidy when you work?

  • Do you want a job in a kitchen?

Three yeses? This course is for you.

How it works

From first call to certificate

  • EnquireLeave your number. We call you back and answer your questions.

  • Join a groupWe place you in the next group near you, or train your team on site.

  • LearnShort lessons from your facilitator, then hands-on practice.

  • Show your skillsA practical assessment of what you have learned.

  • CertificateYou receive your Injongo certificate of completion.

Included in the course

Everything you need

  • Learner guide

  • Hands-on practice with your facilitator

  • A practical assessment

What you leave with

Proof you can do the job

Injongo certificateShows you completed Cook: Convenience Foods.

Kitchen habitsClean, safe and organised: what every kitchen manager wants to see.

Ways to join

Choose how you join

Pick the option that fits you, then leave your details below.

Individuals

Join a group

  • Lessons and hands-on practice

  • A practical assessment

  • Injongo certificate

Sponsored learners

Ask about funded places

  • Some groups are sponsored by employers or funders

  • We match you to a group when one opens

  • Same training and certificate

Employers

Train your team on site

  • We train at your workplace

  • Your team learns together

  • Certificates for everyone who completes

Questions

Before you enrol

Still unsure? Call or WhatsApp +27 62 495 8450.

Do I need experience?

No. The course starts with hygiene and safety and builds up to cooking.

What certificate do I get?

Participants who meet Injongo's attendance and course-completion requirements receive an Injongo certificate of completion. This course does not award SAQA credits or a registered qualification.

Where is the training?

In Jeffreys Bay, Knysna, George, Plettenberg Bay, Oudtshoorn, Cape St Francis and Mossel Bay, or on site at your workplace for employer groups.

Is funding available?

Some groups are sponsored by employers or funders. When you enquire, we tell you about any funded places that fit you.

Will you help me find a job?

We help graduates with CVs, interviews and introductions to employers. We can't promise a job, but we work to connect every graduate with employers.

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We call you back to talk through the course, the next group and any funding.