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Team Cooking: Who's going to be captain?
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Team Cooking: Who's going to be Captain?
The team captain is in charge of planning the cooking event. This responsibility can be held by the same person or rotated between cooks. Team positions will often naturally flow from each person’s personality. One friend likes the captain job and another is happy to never be captain. Each Team will function a little differently.
The team captain can also perform other responsibilities. If the cooking team is small, the captain title is less critical and will share other responsibilities with a friend. However, if your cooking team is large the Captain will spend a lot of time planning the menu and making the shopping list that other cooks should not expect her to perform other jobs. This is a team effort and to get the shared benefits the work should be shared too.
Below is a list of the 5 primary responsibilities a cooking team has. Some of these take more time than others. Read more about what is involved in each task before assigning jobs. Some teams share all the responsibilities while other teams rotate all the responsibilities from one person to the next. I recommend cooking with the same people and trying to find consistent jobs that each cooks enjoys to do and let them do it every time. I am the captain of my group…does that surprise anyone?
Team Cooking Responsibilities.
- Planning - "Team Captain"
- Decide on a menu
- Fill in your team’s strategy form, take orders from each cook, think through how the meals will be assembled and assign cooks to specific work stations/recipes.
- Shopping – this is a big job; sometimes hard with little children.
- Prepping ingredients for meal team cook day.
- Cooking pasta
- Chopping vegetable
- Shredding cheese
- Storing the portable pantry and large mixing bowls. This does not take time, but space.
- Money management. If there is someone in your group that is especial organized and careful. This might be the best person to tally receipts.
Assign tasks to people who have experience or interest in a particular role. Obviously small groups of cooks will share most of the responsibilities.
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