Essential Cookery Course

Our Essential Cookery Course is designed over five days, five hours per day, it is a good beginners course or a refresher course for anyone wanting to enter the kitchen professionally.

See course details below:

Day One

• Knife skills

  • knives & correct use

  • cuts

• HACCP:

  • Types of hazards & critical control points

  • Commercial kitchen rules

  • Assembly line

Day Two

• Cooking methods:

  • sautéing, roasting, broiling, frying, simmering, etc

• How to heat & cure a pan (esp cast iron)

  • Difference between cast iron, alumnium, stainless steel, enamal, copper pans

• Learn to roast a chicken and sauté vegetables

• Learn to layer a salad & make dressing

Day Three

• Learn the difference between broiling vs simmering

• Broil: make pasta from scratch

• Simmer: make sauce to pair with pasta

Day Four

• Soups & Sauces

• Learn "Mother Sauces:

  • White sauce: béchamel & velouté

  • Red & brown sauce: tomate & espangol

  • Butter sauce: hollandaise

Day Five

• How to plan a menu & source ingredients

• Time plan: how to make & follow

• Recylcing ingredients & using one ingredient in different ways

• Flavour balancing

• Storing foods correctly

• Plate balancing : protein, carbs, vegetables (building blocks)