{"id":21119,"date":"2021-05-31T09:48:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T16:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=21119"},"modified":"2021-05-31T09:48:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T16:48:01","slug":"camosun-cuisine-machine-prepares-to-welcome-students-back-to-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/05\/31\/camosun-cuisine-machine-prepares-to-welcome-students-back-to-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun Cuisine Machine prepares to welcome students back to campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

A food truck operated by Camosun students in the Professional Cook Level One certificate program has been operating for four weeks at Lansdowne and Interurban after a brief maintenance shutdown in early May.<\/p>\n

The Camosun Cuisine Machine is a way to bring students together, says Camosun Culinary Arts chair David Lang.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt gets them out in the community,\u201d says Lang. \u201cIt\u2019s a nice fresh change of pace for them\u2026 Especially during the pandemic, because we don\u2019t have student interface right now in the cafeteria, it does give them an opportunity to be out in the community, still have a real experience, an interface with customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun students use the Cuisine Machine to get food-truck experience (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With limited overhead costs in comparison to owning a restaurant, the food truck offers students experience in what is a really economical way to start a business.<\/p>\n

\u201cFood trucks are a huge outlet these days,\u201d says Lang. \u201cA new opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lang says that after food trucks became common in cities like Toronto, Portland, and Victoria, they became an important consideration for students in the culinary arts, given the present economic climate. However, Lang says that giving students a food-truck experience presented a set of challenges during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cNormally we\u2019re out three to four days a week during the pandemic. Moving forward we\u2019re going to continue to do\u2026 two days a week at [Vancouver Island Technology Park], as well as the Lansdowne campus, but we\u2019re also going to re-engage with our partners [at] high schools and use the Cuisine Machine as a recruiting tool,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Lang says the food on the Cuisine Machine connects to Camosun\u2019s international population: South Asian and South American food is served while \u201creally trying to touch on a lot of the different cultures that the college community encompasses,\u201d he says. Lang also says the Cuisine Machine offers a unique opportunity to train students on the intricacies of cooking in close quarters. Each student in the program rotates through the food truck on a two-week cycle as part of the Professional Cook program, which teaches them to operate in a very tight space.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimilar to a ship, perhaps,\u201d says Lang, \u201cand it has its own unique challenges, like, \u2018How do you transport deep fryer oil in a moving vehicle?\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cThey get the breadth of, \u2018How do you operate the cooking side?\u2019 certainly. The storage side, the operational side, and a little bit into the customer service side as well. It is a very unique opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Be it catering, location serving, or product development, new opportunities for students\u2014in terms of cooking and eating\u2014are presented through the Cuisine Machine, says Lang.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have lots of success stories like Indecent Risotto, and Deadbeetz in Victoria,\u201d he says. \u201cIt just gives them a really good experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cuisine Machine will be at Vancouver Island Technology Park, near the Interurban campus, on Tuesdays from 11 am to 12:40 pm, and at the Lansdowne campus on Thursdays from 11 am to 12:40 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A food truck operated by Camosun students in the Professional Cook Level One certificate program has been operating for four weeks at Lansdowne and Interurban after a brief maintenance shutdown in early May. The Camosun Cuisine Machine is a way to bring students together, says Camosun Culinary Arts chair David Lang. \u201cIt gets them out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-campus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21122,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21119\/revisions\/21122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}