Kids in the kitchen
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Topic: Kids in the kitchen
Posted By: caliandjack
Subject: Kids in the kitchen
Date Posted: 09 November 2011 at 11:37am
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Do you spend time in the kitchen with your children?
I love cooking and baking and DD is often exploring my kitchen cupboards. I would love to start baking with her not sure what I can make that is suitable for a 1 year old and what considerations there are around safety. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
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Posted By: JadeC
Date Posted: 09 November 2011 at 12:15pm
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I haven't yet, but I saw this on pinterest, and thought it looked so great if you had kids in the kitchen a lot!
http://ana-white.com/2010/12/helping-tower.html ------------- http://pregnancy.baby-gaga.com/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: E&L+1
Date Posted: 09 November 2011 at 12:31pm
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I've baked with DD for ages, since around 1. To start will it was just things like scones and piklets as they are reasonably fool proof as measurements can be off when baking with a toddler. She isn't allowed anywhere near the oven/stove and knows where to stand when I'm using it so she's safe. For Christmas this year one of her presents is her own baking set complete with bowl, mixing spoon, apron, whisk etc.
That tower looks really neat. We just use a stool that is at the right hight for our bench. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 09 November 2011 at 12:37pm
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I was thinking of starting with scones as they seem pretty easy and give her a chance to make dough.
That tower would take up too much room a foot stool would help get her to the right height ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: Hopes
Date Posted: 09 November 2011 at 12:39pm
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I bake a reasonable amount, and just let Jacob watch. Because he can't really be trusted to stay on a chair without stepping off the side by accident, most of the time he watches form the floor, but he loves licking the bowl and generally watching. (In fact... I got the spatula out the other day, and he started clapping... perhaps a little too much bowl-licking lately?) I don't make anything special because to my mind he's too young to 'help' at the moment, I just make whatever I'm making. -------------   
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Posted By: MamaT
Date Posted: 09 November 2011 at 1:35pm
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DS always joins in with the baking, I just sit him on the kitchen bench so he can reach the bowl easily, although I could move his little table into the kitchen and we could use that. I make anything with him, prior to one I would just bake things that didn't have eggs, so no chance of him eating raw eggs. But now, I just bake whatever we feel like.
He's been helping since about 6 or so months, there is a lot of mess and quantities get rather messed up, but that's all part of the fun -------------  
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Posted By: EmDee
Date Posted: 09 November 2011 at 1:36pm
Lol, that's gorgeous! My older 2 love to help me bake. If I ever do it without them they complain that they wanted to help. I haven't really tried with DS2 yet, but he does love getting mixing bowls and wooden spoons out and pretending to mix things while I do. I say go for it! Expect a mess and that things might not turn out quite right, but enjoy it  ------------- DS 8 DD 6 DS 4 DD 2 |
Hopes wrote:Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 09 November 2011 at 3:01pm
we made our first batch of scones it was a lot of fun rubbing in the butter and adding the milk  ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 09 November 2011 at 3:09pm
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When Lily was 1 she'd just sit in her high chair and I'd give her the spoon to lick afterwards or the recipe to look at. Now she is older I get her in there. She stands on a high back chair (it's qider than most dining chairs) and she stands next to me and will often pop her fingers in the mix to taste haha or she'll help me do the dishes after (pretty much just dipping cups in the water and tipping it out). She still doesn't get the idea of mixing so I do that but she loves standing and watching the baking through the glass though I don't encourage it because there have been cases where ovens, microwaves etc have exploded.
Otherwise if she's not interested then she just goes into the cupboards and gets things out and explores or will 'copy' me with her empty bowl! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Keolyn
Date Posted: 09 November 2011 at 3:15pm
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Another idea is something like making a plain cookie dough, or just using sweet shortcrust pastry and letting them cut out shapes (like ginger bread men etc) and decorate with icing, lollies etc when they're cooked :)
Something like the 1 egg chocolate sponge in the Edmonds is really easy and pretty fool proof too :) And things like pizzas if you chop the ingredients and then they can 'decorate' their own pizza :) more incentive to eat it for dinner too! ------------- http://lilypie.com/"> 
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Posted By: jaz
Date Posted: 09 November 2011 at 7:28pm
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Yes, DS loves helping me cook dinner and often helps if I'm making or making a desert. He sifts, mixes, stirs etc. He mostly makes his own toast including buttering and putting jam on it, I just cut it for him. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 09 November 2011 at 7:54pm
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Aiden loves whisking eggs etc, and tipping in the flour, sugar etc, and stiring. If hes going to be "helping" I dont bake things that are too complicated or need too much concentration from me- just things Ive made dozens of times before!
I used to sit him on the bench too, then I used to stand him on one of our dining room chairs, now he drags one of the little chairs over and stands on that. |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 09 November 2011 at 9:26pm
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I hate the kids in the kitchen! I chase them out. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: fallen
Date Posted: 09 November 2011 at 9:54pm
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Can't say i'm a fan of having my 2 year old in there unless we're specifically doing a project that has been planned to involve him. ------------- |
Posted By: NovemberMum
Date Posted: 09 November 2011 at 11:09pm
| I find our kitchen too small for mine to help out I end up feeling claustrophobic |
Posted By: T_Rex
Date Posted: 10 November 2011 at 11:56am
I love baking with DD1. Started at 6 monthish - once she was on solids and could sit up 
Initially she sat on the bench beside the bowl, now she stands on a chair which I used to have in a corner with me beside the one exposed side but now can be anywhere. She loves making muffins, and is now able to spoon the mixture into the trays herself. She can also measure with some guidance (great for teaching halves, quarters etc) and crack eggs very efficiently - too efficiently perhaps seeing as she'd neatly cracked all the eggs into the empty chookfood bucket before we made it back to the house from the chook house yesterday 
I did the same with my little sister (I was 10 years older) and had her baking from very young. She's now nearly 20 and has been a fabulous cook for years. I love inviting her round to cook tea for me  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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