Teen Chef: Advanced

Cooking is one of those life skills that changes everything for anyone once they learn it.  It makes access to nutritious food easier, it keeps costs down and it means never having to rely one anyone else for a full belly.  So what better way to learn how to cook, than to do it in a professional kitchen, instead of watching videos on a phone that never really sink in. That’s what Teen Chef does for your kids.

Our Teen Chef Advanced program runs four consecutive Saturday afternoons where your teens will work with our Chefs, building real skills from the ground up.

In our Teen Chef Basic Program kids learn the fundamental skills necessary to work and grow in a professional kitchen.  Our Teen Chef Advanced program is designed to build on those skills, introducing young chefs to more advanced skills and techniques such as; mastering mother sauces, cooking starches, using emulsifiers and making salad dressings, and even introduces them to the art of cooking breakfast.

It’s practical, it’s hands-on, and every session ends with everyone sitting down to eat what they’ve made together.

Curriculum

October 17 | Sauce Cookery
A great sauce can elevate a simple dish into something memorable, and every professional kitchen in the world runs on the same five foundations. In this session, teens will learn the five French mother sauces, understand how each one works and why, and then start building on them by adding their own ingredients to create signature variations they can bring home and keep experimenting with.

October 24 | Fish Cookery
Fish intimidates most home cooks, and that’s usually because nobody ever showed them how to handle it properly. This session takes the mystery out of it completely. Teens will learn to clean and filet a whole fish, understand the techniques that prevent overcooking, and come away with the confidence to work with seafood the way a professional does, getting the most out of every cut.

October 31 | Poultry Cookery
A whole chicken is one of the most versatile and affordable things you can buy, and knowing how to break one down and cook every part of it properly is a skill that pays for itself over and over again. Teens will learn to deconstruct a whole bird, work through different cooking methods for different cuts, and understand how to use everything from the breast to the carcass so nothing goes to waste.

November 7 | Meat Cookery
The final session of the Advanced program is where your teen puts it all together. They’ll learn to cook to colour, understand which cuts respond best to which cooking methods, get hands-on with basic butchery techniques, and develop an understanding of how to get the most flavour and value out of every piece of meat they work with. By the time they walk out, they’ve gone from someone who could barely hold a knife eight weeks ago to someone who can genuinely cook a meal from scratch, start to finish.

Please note: This is a presale program. You will be asked to pay $50 to secure your space at checkout and if we meet the required number of tickets sold, we will bill the remainder of the ticket price. If the program doesn’t run, your $50 reservation fee will be automatically refunded to your purchase method.