Culinary Arts Camps

Challenge will offer week-long summer day camps focusing on Culinary Arts beginning in the summer of 2022. The camps will be open to all school students in surrounding schools in CSD 27.  The development of the camps will involve collaboration with area NYC DOE schools – especially those located in the Rockaways.

Culinary Arts Middle Summer Camp (6-8)will be an intense culinary arts camp for 6-8 middle school students and will build on the essential skills needed to prepare food in a professional kitchen. Students will learn to perfect the art of cooking from experienced chefs. Each student will receive personal attention and guidance from knowledgeable chef-instructors during the camp’s hands-on cooking classes.

Highlights of the culinary arts skills and concepts covered during the week-long camp include:

• kitchen safety including handling knives
• cutting methods
• poaching
• regulating time and temperature

• frying and sautéing
• braising
• steaming
• baking

The week schedule will include:

Culinary Arts – Pastry Middle Summer Camp (6-8) will spend five weekday sessions exploring various pastry arts techniques. After the week-long experience each student will be equipped with the basic skills to create tarts with delicious crusts and fillings, batch freeze custards for ice cream, decorate with piping and more. Students will learn to perfect their pastry arts from experienced chefs. Each student will receive personal attention and guidance from knowledgeable chef-instructors during the camp’s hands-on cooking classes. This camp requires no prior pastry experience.

Highlights of the pastry arts skills and concepts covered during the week-long camp include:

• creaming and cutting butter
• using leavening agents
• creating fillings
• meringues
• buttercreams

• decorative techniques using fondant, marzipan and chocolate
• piping
• freezing custards
• plating individual desserts

The week schedule will include: