Domestic Science as a school subject...

[sandyRoe]

Has it been done away with?

[Bobbisox]

isn't Home Economics now sandy?

[rowanwitch]

Turkey twizzlers 101

[sandyRoe]

I was glancing at a thread where posters were saying youngsters didn't know how to cook anymore. I thought the entire subject must have been dropped from schools.

[redman41]

Used to be Cookery Lessons when I was in School

[cathfromsaron]

'food technology' here!

and it used to be a rotating part of the umbrella subject 'craft' (DCT, woodwork, sewing, and metalwork) in my daughters' school! x

[Bobbisox]

it was known as Domestic Science when I was there, I have a feeling youngsters can take this as an option now
could be wrong

[ummmm]

No, my son is doing it as GCSE. My other son is doing it as part as the curriculum.

It just appears to be a waste of a GCSE. His teacher was off most of last year and they did jack sugar!!

[TOWIE]

Domestic Science when I was a girl and Food Science when my son was at secondary school.

[Bobbisox]

I think a lot in my generation learnt the art of cooking from their Mums

[Barmaid]

My step daughter used to do it as part of the rotation stuff like woodwork, metal work etc. She still can't make a sandwich. I've tried, trust me, I've tried.........

[TOWIE]

I hated Domestic Science (and still do) my poor Dad used to have to eat all my burnt offerings that I brought home from school....(:o((

[cathfromsaron]

and the ingredients cost a fortune!

[jake-the-peg]

My generation learnt to cook at University - well those of us who couldn't face baked beans for 3 years or get a girlfriend to fuss over us!

Having seen my kids at school I'm not very impressed - how to bake a cake seems to feature prominantly.

They need to encourage it at 6th form level and focus it on student survival skills

[LoftyLottie]

I can cook and cook well. I basically learned from being in the kitchen with Mum, grandmother, etc and just chatting and watching. I did domestic science at school and it taught me naff all. I dropped the stodgy apple pudding in my Mum's pyrex dish on the way home from school, made some incredibly horrible white vegetable soup and learned how to scrub a wooden draining board. I only got put in the domestic science group because they through me out of Latin for talking too much!!

From what I saw of the food science/food technology lessons at my son's school they were a complete waste of time too. He also is a good cook who learned from his Mum.

[giveup]

What I remember most about Domestic Science was having to clean the brass taps for some misdemeanour (real or imagined)

[EcclesCake]

Not really answering the question but......

.....we were taught how to make a cooked breakfast, a decorated christmas cake, a yule log, how to microwave a baked potato (microwaves were new fangled cooking devices back then!) and a baked apple.

As Jake says, if we are going to domestic science, home ec, cookery classes they really do need to be useful and applicable to everyday life.