On Thursday, January 18, San Diego Unified Culinary Arts and Management students battled each other and first year culinary arts students from the Art Institute of California – San Diego. They prepared a three-course meal with a secret ingredient in the 14th Annual San Diego Teen Iron Chef competition.
This year’s winning team was from Morse High School. They have completed for five years and is their first win. The students had one hour to make three courses all from scratch. They were judged not only on taste and appearance but also safety and sanitation, communication, knife skills and organization.
Every year the competition gets tougher. Judges are major players in culinary like Deborah Scott from the Cohn Group, Claudia Sandoval winner of Master Chef, the executive chef of the Brigantine Group, Ken Irving owner of Bleu Boheme and more.
Congratulations to Morse High School, all the competing teams and their teachers for showcasing the excellent work students are doing.
Video on CBS 8 News - https://www.sandiegounified.org/newscenter/sites/default/files_link/newscenter/files//videos/TeenIronChefCompCBS.mp4
Video during the competition - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiLjLqhmeAY
