KS1 Cooking | Planning and Preparing Meals

Design/Technology Quiz - Cooking (Questions)

This quiz addresses part of the requirements of the National Curriculum KS1 Design and Technology for children aged 5 and 6 in years 1 and 2. Specifically it looks at planning, preparing and cooking simple meals. It is one of 10 quizzes to help you with designing and making useful things, and finding out about how things are made.

Cooking is fun. It is also useful. You might be asked to make sandwiches, make a salad, make meals, or bake a cake. This quiz looks at some of the skills you need to do well in cooking. Like in other jobs, planning and preparing are important when cooking. You need to be very well organised. How well prepared are you to answer these ten quiz questions?

Harry’s Dad is going shopping. He needs to know what food to buy for the week ahead, so he plans all the meals for the family. What sort of meals should he plan?

[ ]	The same meals every day
[ ]	The same food every day
[ ]	Pizza every day
[ ]	Different meals every day

Ella’s teacher asks her to design a sandwich. Ella decides to use ham, tomato, lettuce and mushrooms. What else will Ella need for her sandwich?

[ ]	Chips
[ ]	Cake
[ ]	Bread
[ ]	Potatoes

Jack’s class are designing a healthy lunch. The teacher says they need to include a fruit. Which one of these is a fruit?

[ ]	Carrot
[ ]	Pear
[ ]	Cabbage
[ ]	Beetroot

Harriet is helping her mum bake a cake. They have a list of ingredients and instructions. This is called the ______.

[ ]	Manual
[ ]	Book
[ ]	Code
[ ]	Recipe

The recipe says to beat an egg. What will Harriet and her mum use to do this?

[ ]	A knife
[ ]	A frying pan
[ ]	An egg cup
[ ]	A whisk

Harriet and her mum are making a cake. They put all the ingredients into:

[ ]	The bin
[ ]	A small saucepan
[ ]	A frying pan
[ ]	A mixing bowl

Harriet and her mum put the mixture into a round baking tin. Then Harriet’s Mum puts it into the oven to ____.

[ ]	Melt
[ ]	Freeze
[ ]	Bake
[ ]	Fry

Tom and his dad are making bread at home. First they mix flour, water and yeast to make a _____.

[ ]	Dough
[ ]	Mess
[ ]	Cake
[ ]	Jam

Tom and his dad bake the bread in an oven. The oven has to be at just the right __________.

[ ]	Weight
[ ]	Height
[ ]	Temperature
[ ]	Length

10.

What must you do after you have finished cooking?

[ ]	Clean, wash-up and put everything away
[ ]	Leave everything for somebody else to do
[ ]	Go straight out to play
[ ]	Throw everything in the bin

Design/Technology Quiz - Cooking (Answers)

Harry’s Dad is going shopping. He needs to know what food to buy for the week ahead, so he plans all the meals for the family. What sort of meals should he plan?

[ ]	The same meals every day
[ ]	The same food every day
[ ]	Pizza every day
[x]	Different meals every day

It can be hard thinking of a different meal every day. Can you plan the meals for your family for just one day?

Ella’s teacher asks her to design a sandwich. Ella decides to use ham, tomato, lettuce and mushrooms. What else will Ella need for her sandwich?

[ ]	Chips
[ ]	Cake
[x]	Bread
[ ]	Potatoes

Have you ever made a sandwich? What did you put in your sandwich?

Jack’s class are designing a healthy lunch. The teacher says they need to include a fruit. Which one of these is a fruit?

[ ]	Carrot
[x]	Pear
[ ]	Cabbage
[ ]	Beetroot

All four are good for you, but only the pear is a fruit. The other three are vegetables

Harriet is helping her mum bake a cake. They have a list of ingredients and instructions. This is called the ______.

[ ]	Manual
[ ]	Book
[ ]	Code
[x]	Recipe

Do you like following recipes?

The recipe says to beat an egg. What will Harriet and her mum use to do this?

[ ]	A knife
[ ]	A frying pan
[ ]	An egg cup
[x]	A whisk

The whisk mixes the egg really well

Harriet and her mum are making a cake. They put all the ingredients into:

[ ]	The bin
[ ]	A small saucepan
[ ]	A frying pan
[x]	A mixing bowl

They can mix the cake by hand or with a food mixer

Harriet and her mum put the mixture into a round baking tin. Then Harriet’s Mum puts it into the oven to ____.

[ ]	Melt
[ ]	Freeze
[x]	Bake
[ ]	Fry

Ovens can be very hot, so you need to be careful

Tom and his dad are making bread at home. First they mix flour, water and yeast to make a _____.

[x]	Dough
[ ]	Mess
[ ]	Cake
[ ]	Jam

Have you ever helped to make bread?

Tom and his dad bake the bread in an oven. The oven has to be at just the right __________.

[ ]	Weight
[ ]	Height
[x]	Temperature
[ ]	Length

If the oven is too hot, the bread will be burnt

10.

What must you do after you have finished cooking?

[x]	Clean, wash-up and put everything away
[ ]	Leave everything for somebody else to do
[ ]	Go straight out to play
[ ]	Throw everything in the bin

Are you good at clearing up after yourself?