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Five Star Kitchen · free practice game
Practise food hygiene by doing it.
Five Star Kitchen is a free practice game for our Level 1 Food Hygiene Awareness course. In each lesson you listen to an audio lesson, play hands-on games in a kitchen, then answer a picture quiz. Made for people who learn by doing.
Coming soon
Opening soon. It will be free with a Good Food Hygiene account.
- 6short lessons
- 16hands-on games
- 20question picture quiz at the end
- 0timers: take as long as you need
How each lesson works
Listen, play, then a picture quiz
Every lesson has the same three steps, so you always know what comes next.
Play
Hands-on games
Do the job yourself in the kitchen: wash your hands, stock the fridge, pick the right chopping board. If something goes wrong, the game shows you why and you try again.
Picture quiz
Answer with pictures
Short questions with picture answers. Every question and answer can be read out loud, so there’s no need to read.
At the end
A practical picture quiz of 20 questions
When all six lessons are done, the final quiz checks what you remember, using pictures from the kitchen.
- 20
- picture questions
- 16
- right to pass
- 0
- timers
What’s in the game
16 games across 6 lessons
The same topics as our Level 1 Food Hygiene Awareness course, from the first day at work to the inspector’s visit.
Lesson 1
Why it matters
- Spot the risks
Lesson 2
Clean hands, clean you
- Get ready for work
- Handwashing
- Fit for work?
Lesson 3
Keep it apart
- Boards and knives
- Prep the order
- Spot it on the table
Lesson 4
Cold, hot and dates
- Check the delivery
- Stock the fridge
- Check the fridge
- Use by or best before?
Lesson 5
Clean as you go
- Wash the pots
- Clean down
- Bins and chemicals
Lesson 6
The law and the inspector
- Spot the pests
- The inspector visits
What it’s for
Two jobs, one game
Practice for our Level 1 course
The game covers the same topics as our Level 1 Food Hygiene Awareness course. Play it before the course and you’ll start already knowing what it’s about. Play it after, and it keeps what you learned fresh.
It’s practice only: there’s no certificate for the game yet.
Training that doesn’t depend on reading
The law says everyone who handles food at work must be trained or supervised in food hygiene, to suit the job they do. But almost all food hygiene training is reading, then a written test. For a lot of people, the reading is the hard part, not the food safety.
Five Star Kitchen teaches the same rules by doing, with as few words as possible, and it can read every one of them out loud.
Why we’re making it
Good at the job shouldn’t mean good at reading
Food hygiene training has always been words on a screen. That works for many people, but it shuts others out: people with learning disabilities, autism, ADHD or dyslexia, people who learn better in different ways or settings, and people still learning English. Plenty of them would be good at the job and still struggle with the course.
Kitchens are where many people find their first job, including people supported by colleges, day services and supported employment schemes. A food hygiene certificate is often the first thing a kitchen asks for, and we want that first step to be one everyone can take.
So we’re building training you play. You learn each rule by doing it, the game can read everything out loud, and when something goes wrong it shows you why and lets you try again.
How it helps
Built for learners, and the people who support them
Learners
Habits, not just answers
Doing the right thing again and again, like washing your hands properly or using the right chopping board, builds habits you take into a real kitchen. Mistakes are safe in the game, so you can try without worrying about getting it wrong.
Colleges, schools and day services
A lesson they can do
A food hygiene lesson your learners can do on their own or with support, at their own speed. It runs in a web browser on a computer or tablet, with nothing to install.
Kitchens and employers
Ready before day one
New starters can practise the basics before they take their course or start their first shift, so the rules already make sense when they meet them for real.
Accessibility
Made for people with SEN and disabilities
Calm, clear and at your own pace. Here’s what the game does now, and what we’re working on next.
In the game now
- Everything can be read out loud
- No time pressure: take as long as you need
- Mistakes are explained, then you try again
- Hands-on tasks and pictures instead of long text
- Settings for larger text, less movement, the names of each place in the kitchen, and colour names on boards and knives
- Works with a mouse, a touchscreen or a keyboard
- Your progress saves to your account as you go
What we’re working on
- Ways for colleges, special schools and day services to set up their learners and follow their progress
- A certificate for the game, once it has been reviewed by The CPD Group
- The game in Welsh, then more of the languages our courses come in
- More lessons, and more of our courses taught this way
Work with learners who have SEN or disabilities? We’d like to build this with you. Get in touch and tell us what your learners need.
Coming soon
Five Star Kitchen opens soon, free with a Good Food Hygiene account. Need a certificate for work? Our Level 1 Food Hygiene Awareness course covers the same topics. It’s CPD accredited, costs £10, and your certificate is ready the moment you pass.
Coming soon See the Level 1 course