The Seafood Training Academy, a UK wide Partnership of training organisations, has supported the delivery of seafood smoking training by setting up a number of training centres. The first three training centres were established at Grimsby Institute, Lakes College West Cumbria, and the Grimsby Seafood Village Training School.
Each of these centres has been supplied an AFOS Micro Kiln. Seafish, the managing partner in the Academy has a 4th AFOS Micro kiln available for training delivery elsewhere in the UK.
Seafish have established Seafood training Networks in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland and has funded a 5th Micro Kiln for the Scottish Seafood Training Network to use for training throughout Scotland.
The AFOS Micro Kilns have provided Seafish and the Seafood Training Academy with the capacity to deliver smoking training courses through centres based in Grimsby and Workington, and at venues in Wales, London and elsewhere.
Trainers who are able to deliver the Introductory, Basic and Advanced smoking courses developed by Seafish are being approved by Seafish in order to make cost-effective high quality smoking training available to the seafood industry throughout the UK.
The AFOS Micro kiln has been an invaluable assist to the training centres as it allows the students to gain working hands on knowledge of the smoking process whilst producing consistent and high quality results.
The AFOS Micro kiln meets the needs of the small producers, restaurants and retail outlets as well as offering perfect results for product development for larger food manufacturers.
The combination of an industry standard smoking process, small footprint and ease of transportation make the Micro Kiln the perfect tool for training delivery said Lee Cooper of Seafish and the seafood Training Academy.
The smoking courses are planned at locations across the country with various dates available, for more information please visit: http://www.seafoodacademy.org or contact:
Lee Cooper
Seafish Onshore Training Manager
7 Earl’s Court, Priory Park East,
Hull, HU4 7DY
Tel: +44 1482 486482