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Advanced Certificate in Professional Cookery Course at CIT

  • 09-12-2009 6:08pm
    #1
    Oleander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 462 ✭✭


    Hi, has anyone done this course? I am interested in doing this or similar at some stage, not particularly for the cheffing area. I would love to work with food in some way and don't know where to start looking re courses. Open to Part time or full time courses, in and around Cork City. It's hard to get into the food or catering industry when you have zero experience so thinking of doing a course. Any info would be great, thank you.


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  • #2
    Kerikosan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 213 ✭✭Kerikosan


    I have done this course, it's a very good course and sets you up to be a 3rd level commis chef. The course is 2 years full time, or u can do a part time over 3 years while working in industry.

    I'd do this course if you want to be a chef, in restaurants, hotels and catering.

    Im currently doing culinary arts yr 3 now, which is a managment course in regards to the Hospitality industry.

    Mind you on aveage 50% leave the course because
    they are not capable of cooking- i.e they cant cook toast
    they arnt bothered there holes lifting a finger
    they dont have a clue what they wanted to do so they just picked this course.

    Pick wisely my friend. id advise going to the colleges open days and checking out C.I.T's hospitality building, The facilities are state of the art and is the best in the counrty in regards to the kitchens, lectures and facilities in our department.


  • #3
    Oleander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 462 ✭✭Oleander


    Hi, thanks for the advice.

    I've been out of the work place for over a year (office work) and the thoughts of going back makes me feel sick, I don't enjoy office work and since I've been off, albeit I've been doing different stuff, but mostly cooking, baking, reading about food has been the only interesting thing I've done with my time. See, I'd love a job working with food, but not necessarily a chef (that's really hard work, long hours and probably not paid that much (in this country anyway)), now if I enjoy the job, none of that should matter but ideally I'd love a 9-5 job working with food, which probably does not exist. I'm not being very confident here, I don't know if I could handle the pressure of working in a busy kitchen. I know that is the reason for studying and I don't want to pay a lot of money for this course and not get anywhere at the end or realise I'm not up to it. I love cooking and I can cook well, so that's the main thing I suppose. Do CIT do a full time Professional Cookery course, cause I've been looking online and I only saw a 9 month course part time?
    I saw a Culinary Arts full time course but thought that was a management course.
    Is this the right course to do if you don't want to be a chef but want to work with food? My thinking is, it would be an interesting course to do for someone that loves working with food and wants to learn loads more. I might actually enjoy a chef position, what scares me is the PRESSURE bit.. and the pressure I've had in an office will probably be nothing compared to that of working in a busy kitchen!


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