Getting Children Cooking  This page is from our recipe
collection.  Chef: ( as heard on Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm Saturday
7 July 2007  Tags: cooking tips, children  Children are
naturally curious and are drawn to the kitchen at an early age.
If you encourage them through their messy stage they can become
quite competent by around 10 years old and will be able to turn
out a handful of recipes. You'll still need to supervise the use
of sharp knives, Gas flames, draining pots of pasta and that
sort of thing, but by this age it becomes more of a 'hovering in
the background', rather than you actually doing it all. This is
the key - you've got to let them make mistakes in order for them
to learn, and they've got to be given some responsibility so
they can feel that they have made the cake or batch of biscuits,
and not you.  Mess, mess, mess! It's hard - just trail around
after them wiping up, but teach them little things such as
wiping or rinsing their hands before opening the fridge (or the
door handle will quickly b