How to Give a Food Demonstration

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How to Give a Food Demonstration

• Barbara Brown, Ph.D., R.D./L.D.
• Food Specialist
• Oklahoma Cooperative
• Extension Service

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Keys to a good demonstration

• Know what you want to accomplish
• Research
• Demonstrate to reinforce the objective
• Organize
• Practice

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Keys to a good demonstration

• Be sure all can see
• Introduce the topic
• Involve the audience
• Review objective(s)
• Make it your own

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Know your goal

• Educate
• Awareness
• Knowledge
• Action

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Know your goal

• Promote
• Programs
• Products
• Combination

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Research
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• Topic
• Information accurate current
• Usable by audience
• Not already known
• Builds on past meetings
• Narrowed to fit audience time

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Number of points to cover

• Time available
• Audience
• Age
• Background
• Your own knowledge level
• Research
• Experience

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Research the audience

• The more you know the better
• Age, gender, skill knowledge level, economic
  status

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Research location

• Type of setting
• Intimate, formal, relaxed, etc.

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Location

• How far away
• May impact food safety
• Get directions
• mapquest.com

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Location

• Help to unload?

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Location

• Can audience see, hear?

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Location

• Where are the lights?
• How do they work?

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Research equipment

• What is available /or usable on site
• Water, refrigeration, electricity, gas, table,
  oven, etc.
• Mirror, microphone
• Limits movement

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Equipment

• Audio-visual
• Operate demonstrate?
• Place to hang poster

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Research help available

• Before, during, after
• What will they do?
• Do they need training?

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The demonstration

• Reinforce key point
• Choose techniques, recipes to get across point
• Example dont premeasure when teaching measuring
  is the goal
• Keep it simple
• Especially when beginning

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The food

• Should smell great taste wonderful
• Try to let at least one person sample
• Colorful garnished
• Show finished product

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You are now a model

• At least a role model
• Consider all actions

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What what you dont say says

• Safe food handling behavior
• Good nutrition choices
• Good posture
• Speak clearly slowly
• Use good grammar
• Avoid nervous twitches, habits
• How you eat

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How to dress

• Look professional
• Comfortable, neat, clean
• Finger nails clean natural
• Quiet makeup
• No jewelry

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How to dress

• Hair nets
• Gloves
• Aprons
• Yes, but not this one
• Keep it clean, pressed

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Organize equipment food

• What recipe/technique to demo?
• Done ahead, in stages, all at once?

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Organize the food

• When do you need to buy it?
• Time to ripen
• Avoid spoilage
• Food safety factors

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Organize equipment supplies

• What will you need how many
• Make lists
• Food
• Equipment
• Supplies
• Notes, handouts

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Often forgotten

• Potholders, timer, spoons/knives, cutting board,
  serving equipment, extension cord, appliance
  cords, sampling utensils/plates/cups, tablecloth,
  trays, paper towels

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Equipment

• Know how to use it
• Will audience have access to same equipment at
  home?
• Suggest substitutions

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Demonstration tips

• Use correct equipment for each task
• Use transparent bowls pans when possible
• Cover table

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Tips

• Use trays bring forward when needed
• Notes on tray include
• Recipe
• Chatter points

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Tips

• Scrape bowls pans clean with rubber scrapper
• Take extra pieces of equipment food if possible
• Put dirty equipment on a tray
• Keep table clean, clear

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Tips

• A damp cloth under bowls holds them steady cuts
  noise
• Wooden spoons are quieter than metal
• Tip bowls pans for viewing
• Care not to spill

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Tips

• Hold bowls from bottom, not lip
• Dont talk while using very noisy equipment
• Spill it? Dont use it.

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Tips

• Tilt pan lids away from face
• Place lids upside down on table or range
• Have waste basket beneath demonstration table

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Tip

• End with finished product on cleared table

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Double check, triple check

• During practice
• Before you leave
• Before the demonstration

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Practice

• Frees mind to do 2 things at once
• Consider posture, grammar, vocabulary, facial
  expressions

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How much practice?

• As often as you can
• With food equipment
• As pantomime
• Before a mirror
• Get critiqued

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Everyone needs to see

• Mirrors
• Tilted bowls, pans
• Small groups up close
• Posters
• Video camera connected to monitor
• Pictures on PowerPoint
• Other ideas?

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Introduce the topic

• Smile
• Prepare an introduction
• Story, joke
• Put audience at ease
• No more than 2-3 minutes

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The DemonstrationInvolve the audience

• Make eye contact
• Smile
• Talk while working
• Ask questions
• Answer questions

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Involve the audience

• Use humor
• Ask for help
• With timing, following recipes, distributing
  handouts, sampling

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Review the objective(s)

• Use Barneys method
• Tell what youll teach
• Teach
• Tell what you taught

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Make it your own

• Let your personality show through

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Expect the unexpected

• Be prepared
• Be flexible
• Enjoy the experience
• Learn from each demonstration

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Sample demonstration

• Canned Tomato Salsa

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Canned Tomato Salsa

• 15-ounce can diced tomatoes
• drain reserve liquid
• 1/2 onion, finely chopped
• 1 pepper, finely chopped

• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 2 tablespoons cilantro, chopped
• 1/2 teaspoon cumin
• Juice of 1/2 lime juice

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Review

• Know what you want to accomplish
• Research
• Demonstrate to reinforce the objective
• Organize
• Practice

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Review

• Be sure all can see
• Introduce the topic
• Involve the audience
• Review the objective(s)
• Make it your own

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