KAB runs Microwave Cooking for Sight Impaired People

Kent Association for the Blind is once again running its hugely popular and useful Microwave Cookery Class for people with a sight impairment. On Wednesday 4th and 11th August four people who are registered sight impaired with the Maidstone and Gravesend KAB offices will spend two days learning how to get the best out of microwave cooking.

Service Users will be brought by KAB's volunteer drivers to the KAB Sight Centre at 72 College Road, Maidstone, which has a fully equipped catering kitchen complete with talking microwaves. Here, the Service Users will be taught how to prepare food safely and how to use the microwave by trained KAB staff Rachael Newton, Rehab Worker KAB. Techniques will range from making the traditional English breakfast (scrambled egg, sausage, bacon and mushrooms) in a microwave, to roasting a chicken, making Shepherd's Pie, cooking salmon, rice, vegetables and a mixed salad.

All participants will learn to make their favourite dessert which could be Ginger Pudding, Chocolate Cake, Pineapple Upside Down Cake or Treacle Sponge. Rachael comments: "We regularly run this type of course as it's so important to encourage people who may have only recently lost their sight, as well as those who perhaps have not been so interested in cooking before, to cook independently for themselves. We find that this course gives our Service Users a new confidence in the kitchen."

If anyone is interested in this type of course, it is run when there is enough demand, so please call the KAB Help Line on 01622 691 357 and names can be put on the list for the next course.

Note to editors: For further information, please contact:

Rachael Newton – Rehab Worker at KAB Maidstone T: 01622 691357 E: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Nicola Forster – Rehab Worker at KAB Gravesend T: 01474 379333 E: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it