About this cooking class
Unlock kitchen secrets in Cook Like a Chef, a premium one-day short course designed for passionate home cooks, food lovers and aspiring culinary professionals. Led by Le Cordon Bleu chefs, this hands-on experience teaches you the essential techniques used in professional kitchens, helping you elevate flavour, texture and presentation in every dish you create.
What will you learn?
In this immersive full-day workshop, you’ll step inside a commercial kitchen and craft restaurant-quality dishes using expert methods. From mastering knife skills to working with luxury ingredients, you’ll build confidence, finesse and a deeper understanding of how chefs think, taste, and plate.
Throughout the day, expert instructors guide you step-by-step as you prepare four refined dishes, each designed to teach precision, balance and presentation.
Core skills covered include:
- Knife skills for preparing and garnishing vegetables, fruits and seafood
- How to prepare delicate elements including asparagus broth, emulsions and potato-based doughs
- Preparing stocks and broths to build deep, layered flavours
- Gnocchi shaping and cooking for perfect texture
- Confit, deep frying, pan-searing and steam cooking methods
- Emulsification, foams and other modern finishing techniques
- Macerating, frying and flavour-intensifying methods
- Professional plating techniques and garnishing skills
Dishes you will create:
- Green asparagus with potato pnocchi, oven-dried tomatoes and fried black olives
- Pearled scallops in chicken broth with foie gras, ginger, Granny Smith apple and mango
- The perfect egg, Jerusalem artichokes confit, duck magret, toasted buckwheat and parmesan reggiano cream
- Garden pineapple, tomato and burrata with pomegranate and raspberry pesto and smoked octopus
