BYU students cook up a storm in SFL food lab

Breads, cake, pizza, you name it. In the BYU foods lab, students cook up all sorts of yummy meals.

Alyssa Love loves to cook and is a teaching assistant for the beginning foods class and a student in the advanced foods class.

"I do love some of the sweets we bake like cinnamon rolls, or we make creamy coconut chicken curry. And that stuff is so good," Love said.

Two cooking classes take place in the foods lab: a beginning and an advanced.

SFL 110 is the beginning class where the students learn the basics of cooking.

Dana Hunter teaches both the beginner and advanced classes.

"It can meet the needs of any range of cook. Very basic, from 'I dont know much at all' to 'Im super passionate about cooking.' Theres something for everybody," Hunter said.

In SFL 110, students start by cooking breads, muffins and biscuits. In a couple of weeks, students will make their own apple pie crusts.

SFL 215 is the higher-level class that teaches more advanced techniques.

"We do a lot of advanced techniques that prepare family and consumer sciences education majors to teach the more advanced foods classes in the high schools, like baking and pastry, and culinary pro start," Hunter said.

Both SFL110 and 215 are required for family and consumer sciences education majors, but the class is open for anyone to take, even if you think you cant cook.

"One key thing is to learn basic, basic. Like how to properly measure ingredients," Hunter said.

Hunter explained another important thing to learn is safe food handling and proper cleaning.

"Youre gaining skills not only for right now, but its helping you for your future family, or youre able to help your roommate. The food lab really just benefits a lot of different aspects of your life," Love said.