This will ensure that if you reach a stage where you do not want their help anymore, and they have really not reached that stage yet, you can always let them conduct a parallel cooking course. Slightly older children can be encouraged to use safe electrical gadgets like the juicer, even if their only contribution is to switch the on and off buttons when you ask them to. They can help you with mashing potatoes, measuring ingredients, beating eggs with a beater, churning buttermilk, or mixing ingredients together. You may also want them to help you line your cake pan with butter paper, sift flour and baking power together, or fashion shapes with a cookie cutter. Little cooks always wash their hands before cooking.
Good cooks eat only after the dish is done.
Be sure that your young volunteers or students are at a safe distance away from hot liquids, hot surfaces and the cooking range. Avoid using tablecloths when they are assisting you, to prevent potential damage to themselves and to your kitchenware. And smile, they will love you even more for knowing that you are patient, kind and understanding with them, than they already do for letting them turn your kitchen upside down. Add butter and milk. Boil for two minutes.