Learn Cooking Skills at Home

Learn how to become the chef you have always wanted to be with Chef Mel by your side the entire way. This is our full six-week chef skills course but completely ONLINE! Each week is broken up into a series of tutorial videos with handy tips along the way. Go at your own pace, and rewatch again and again.

Chef Mel has been a cooking school teacher for over 20 years and will teach you all of her amazing tricks, shortcuts, and hacks so that you learn how to cook quickly and confidently.

This interactive cooking course is suitable for all skill levels from beginners to advanced and is designed for those with a passion for cooking but are perhaps lacking the necessary skills or confidence to absolutely shine.

This course consists of over 100+ Recipes and Demonstration Tutorials which you can watch on your own time - it's your new at-home cooking bible! You can cook along, fast forward, rewind, or do whatever it takes for you to learn these skills at your own pace.

This online course will travel through the following foodie topics:
1. Pasta making, gnocchi, focaccia and panna cotta
2. Braising: pork belly with perfect crackling, ciabatta, creme brûlée
3. Poultry work including pate, roast spatchcock, lavosh/crackers, egg poaching, chocolate tart
4. How to cook perfect steak and sauces, pastries and apple lattice pie, mayo and emulsions
5. Crispy skin salmon, smoking, stacked salads, ice creams and gelato
6. Lamb shoulder with date and pistachio bling, vanilla glazed doughnuts and soufflé

Discover the art of:

• Bread-making – Focaccia, Ciabatta, Lavosh Crackers
• Sauces and emulsions, reductions, flambés
• Preparing the perfect steak – rare, medium rare, medium perfectly every time
• Presentation skills. Garnishes and decorations, stacking
• Knife and carving skills
• Pastry work
• And so much more!

What you'll get:

• Exclusive and easy-to-follow instructional videos
• eBook with over 100+ recipes
• Free Little Black Book of Culinary Bling
• Free Knife Skills Course
• Q&A support

You should not be spending hours slaving away in the kitchen, cooking can be fun, creative, fulfilling, and rewarding. We will prepare show-stopping meals together, based on the fundamentals of essential cookery techniques but you will learn how to simplify and adapt these skills to make meals that take minimal time and effort to prepare! The focus is on enjoying the experience, gaining confidence, and learning essential cooking and presentation techniques.

If you've always wanted to be a master home chef this complete online cooking course is for you! This interactive cooking course is suitable for all skill levels from beginners to advanced and is designed for those with a passion for cooking but are perhaps lacking the necessary skills or confidence to absolutely shine!

Confirmation and login details for your course enrolment will be sent separately after booking.