Design Technology | Food Technology
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Evaluation
Practical Evaluations
This is when you evaluate the products that you make.
Taste This is the flavour that you have from you food? What is it like?
Texture What does it feel like in your mouth?
Appearance What does it look it?
Planning How well did you plan your work?
Making What was your making like? Did you do everything correctly?
Presentation What did you present your food like? How could you of improved it?
Sensory analysis How does the food effect the senses? Think of smell, taste, texture,
Opinion What did other people think of your food?
Changes What changes would you make if you were to do it again?
Folder Evaluation
This is where you evaluate your folder work including your designs, research and evaluations.
Presentation What is the presentation like in your folder?
How could you improve it?
Research What research did you carry out?
How did it help you?
Design work What is your design work like?
Did you colour and label it?
What colouring methods did you use?
Could you have improved this?
Best Idea What is your Best Idea like? How well did you draw it?
Did you label it?
Planning What is your planning like?
Did you put in equipment and ingredients lists?
Likes What do you like about your folder and why?
Dislikes What do you not like about your folder and why?
Changes If you were to do your project again, what would you change?
Evaluation Against Specification
Function Did it do what you wanted it to do?
Aesthetics Did your final product look like you wanted it to?
How did you ensure it looked this way?
Safety Was your food safe to eat?
How did you achieve it?
Economics Where your products within your cost barrier?
Where they in demand?
Market Was the product suitable for the market you aimed it at?
How did you ensure that?
Ergonomics Was the size in relation to the portions you wanted?
Size Did your designs fit into your maximum/minimum sizes?
Materials Were your material the ones you wanted at the start?
How did you ensure this?
Durability How long did your product keep for?
Was this the length of time you wanted it to last for?
Did it go hard/stale/soft/soggy by that time?
Finish Was the finish of your product what you stated it would be?
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