Learn how to cook like a real Chef in this fun, hands-on, and interactive 6 class series! Cooking is always more fun with friends, and this cooking series is an excellent way to meet new people with similar interests and improve your cooking skills while learning tips, tricks, and techniques from our Professional Chef Instructors! These classes give you the hands-on foundation of knowledge and skill to take you to a higher level of cooking and meal preparation. In this 6-day hands-on series, you’ll develop a command of the classic culinary techniques that Chefs use daily. You will also learn and use a variety of cooking methods like roasting, sous vide, grilling, sautéing, pan-frying, stir-frying, braising, poaching, and steaming. You will also learn about flavor profiles, seasoning, marinades, rubs, and how to layer flavors. This series is a “must-take” class if you want to master the art of cooking and gain the confidence to experiment with your own creations while honing your cooking skills at home. We guarantee this will be a fun, rewarding, and enriching experience!
Our cooking series will involve a group of people that share the same love and passion for food and the culinary arts! You will get to cook with the same group for the duration of the series and will experience personalized attention with our professional Chef Instructors. We provide recipes, ingredients, supplies, tools, hats, aprons, and anything else you will need during class. All you have to do is show up ready to enjoy cooking! Price is for one person ages 16-adult.
As part of this series you will:
- Experience many different foods, ingredients, cooking methods & techniques
- Learn how to properly and efficiently use and maintain knives
- Improve your cooking skills at home
- Learn how to cook faster, safer, and more efficiently while saving valuable time
- Be challenged to expand on your current skills
- Receive one-on-one time with Chef Instructors
- Receive a packet including all the recipes from the series
- Enjoy what we make in class
Class Schedule: (Sundays from 4:00 PM-7:00 PM)
- Class 1: January 22nd
- Class 2: January 29th
- Class 3: February 5th
- Class 4: February 19th
- Class 5: February 26th
- Class 6: March 12th
What You Will Learn:
Class 1: Basic Knife Skills
- Knife use and safety
- Sharpening techniques and how to use a wet stone and honing steel
- Choosing the best knife and cutting board for you
- Basic knife cuts
- Increasing speed and food preparation efficiency
- Mise en place
- Kitchen organization
- The correct way to follow a recipe
Class 2: Sauce Preparation
- How to prepare sauces and their variations
- Pairing sauces with various proteins and vegetables
- Roux and slurry
- How to thicken sauces properly
- Flavoring and seasoning techniques
- Troubleshooting sauces
Class 3: Poultry & Pork
- Roasting, grilling, braising, & sauteing methods
- Whole chicken fabrication
- Smoking techniques
- Spices and seasoning
- Marinades and dry rubs
Class 4: Vegetables & Salads
- Tossed, bound, and composed salads
- Scratch made dressings
- Roasting, sauteing, and grilling vegetables
Class 5: Beef
- Grilling steaks
- Beef stews
- Marinating and rubs
- Sous Vide and reverse sear techniques
- Temperature control and degrees of doneness
- Cutting and slicing
- Choosing the right steak
Class 6: Seafood
- Seafood identification and cooking methods
- Determining freshness
- How to filet a whole fish
- Roasting a whole fish
- Grilling seafood
- Frying fish filets
