Core Competency Self-Assessment: Food Studies

Critical and Reflective thinking skills. In this class I made sushi for the first time. This lab was a challenge to me here I really had to demonstrate my critical and reflective thinking skills to figure out the issues while making the sushi rolls. From cutting the vegetables in a different style to making the sushi rolls it was not as easy as I thought it would be. I had two problem with the sushi rolls. Creating the rolls and cutting them, the rice is very sticky and while spreading it on the seaweed it would stick to my fingers. I was able to demonstrated critical thinking skills by soaking my hands in water to prevent the rice sticking to me, then later smoothing the riced on top of the seaweed. While cutting the rolls it would just all fall apart and almost everything would come out the sides, to prevent that from happening I pinched the sides together to add more strength inside the roll. If I were to make sushi again I would use the helpful tip that I found out about, before my failed attempts.