SIT30821 Certificate III In Commercial Cookery

SIT30821 Course Description

For The Apprentice Chef

Join the ICE revolution! If you are currently employed as an apprentice chef or are about to be, then ICE would love to train you! Our apprentices work at some of the top 10 restaurants in Brisbane and are some of the best talents in the industry.

Experienced Teachers

Our teachers are experienced, enthusiastic and very motivated about teaching and mentoring our students to become the best chefs they can be. ICE welcomes any apprentice from any walk of life or any restaurant, cafe or food establishment in Brisbane and SE Queensland and we guarantee to teach you everything we know.

Guest Demonstrations by the Best Chefs

We are lucky enough to have industry chefs like Chef Josue Lopez (Qld Chef of the Year 2016), Ben Williamson (Qld Chef of the Year 2017) and others such as Javier Codina (Moda), Alejandro Cancino (former Executive Chef of Urbane, Brisbane’s highest ranking restaurant) and TV personalities such as Clayton Donovan (ABCs Wild Kitchen) and a whole host of other well-known and highly regarded chefs performing guest demonstrations and master classes at ICE, which our students absolutely love.

Learn From Our Excursions

We take all our apprentices out on excursions as part of our theory program and these include Micro herb farms, Rocklea Markets, Gotzinger Small Goods, Raptis Factory and Fish Auction, Australian Country Meats Abbatoir and Meat Processing Factory, Warrigal Road Farms, Fino Foods, Maleny Dairy and many others throughout the course.

Enjoyable Classes

Our classes are relaxed, fun and inspirational and everyone at ICE goes above and beyond to help, advise and encourage all our students to succeed. ICE is like one big family and we’d love to have you.

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QLD Government Assistance

Department of Employment, Small Business and Training assistance programs.

 Free Apprenticeships for Under 25
Applies to high priority apprenticeship or traineeship qualifications
 Certificate 3 Guarantee Funding
Applies to Certificate II & III / Cookery Cert II & III Hospitality
 Trade Skills Assessment Gap Training - TSAGT
Applies to Cert III Cookery

Eligibility

 Pre requisite: Registered Queensland Apprentice Chef.
 Apprentice must have a training contract in place with suitable employer in Queensland

Application Process

Start the application process by completing the enquiry form.
Contact an Australian Apprenticeship Support Network (AASN) provider via australianapprenticeships.gov.au/find-my-aasn/map
Book a ‘sign-up’ appointment with your chosen AASN, they will visit your workplace and complete your training contract with you and your employer.
Select The Institute of Culinary Excellence as your preferred Supervising Registered Training Organisation (SRTO) on your training contract. The AASN will then notify ICE.
The Institute of Culinary Excellence will then contact your employer and arrange an enrolment session, where your enrolment form, training plan and other documentation are completed.
Alternatively, contact ICE in the first instance and we will arrange your enrolment session and notify an AASN on your behalf.

Enquiry Form

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Training Record Book

SIT30821 Certificate III In Commercial Cookery

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Alison Taafe

Director & Training Manager

Alison has been a professional chef for nearly 40 years. She trained in London at the highly prestigious Westminster Hotel School where she received the Westminster School Diploma in Professional Cookery. She then spread her wings and travelled around the globe working in some of the world’s finest kitchens, cooking for movie stars, pop stars, sporting greats and more importantly royalty, namely Queen Elizabeth II and two US presidents both Reagan and Bush Snr. along the way. Alison eventually reached Australia in 1988 where she was appointed as chef for the VIP Lounge of the Australian Pavilion at World Expo 88. She has lived in Australia for 32 years.
She began her professional teaching career in 1996 and gained a Bachelor of Adult and Vocational Teaching from Griffith University in 2000. She also held the role of a tenured Leading Vocational Culinary Teacher at Southbank Institute of Technology (COTAH) for 14 years. During this tenure, she received several awards. In 2004, Alison was the first chef to win a prestigious ‘Churchill Fellowship’ which was a great honour. Alison claimed a further award namely ‘Outstanding Educator’ in 2006 for the degree program she wrote for chefs in Australia.
In 2014, Alison launched ‘The Institute of Culinary Excellence’ (ICE) which is a registered RTO. ICE started with only 8 apprentice chef students. Over the last 6 years, ICE has trained over 2000 apprentice and trainee chefs, from most of the top 10 restaurants in Brisbane. After only 4 years of operation, ICE was awarded ‘Best School in Queensland’ in 2018, runner-up in the national awards, and named ‘Best Culinary School’ in Australia.

Media-wise, Alison was the resident chef on Channel 9 for several years and has made many appearances on TV. Alison has written 5 books: ‘Fun, Fast and Fabulous Food’ (2008) ‘Leftovers Magic’ (2010), ‘Eat For Your Life’ (2013), the proceeds from the sale of this book go directly to her cancer charity ‘Eat For A Cure’ aimed at helping people use food to overturn terminal illness.

She released her 4th book ‘Food for Thought’ (2016) in conjunction with ASCA (Australian Schools Canteen Association) where she hoped to ‘health up’ tuck shops in Australian schools. Finally, she completed her 5th book ‘The Recipe Resource’ (2019), an eBook for QMOW (Queensland Meals on Wheels) assisting in providing healthy and nutritious food for the elderly. Just recently Alison completed an Oxford University Program in Strategic Leadership and was awarded honours for her efforts.
Alison is the CEO and Training Manager for ICE and her students become part of her extended family. All the students at ICE are respected, motivated, inspired, and lead by her and her incredible team of teachers and trainers. Alison leads ICE by example and her work ethic, leadership and professionalism as a teacher and professional chef are second to none.

Her dream for ICE was to ‘transform lives through food’ and she has certainly done that…