Through a combination of demonstration and hands-on experience, our chef tutor will instruct you in the precise art of cutting, filleting, deboning, carving, selection, handling, sharpening and preservation of knives to give you the professional touch in the kitchen.
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This workshop offers a practical, hands-on experience aimed at developing your cutting skills, while providing essential understanding of how the right cut can improve the flavour and texture of all dishes. You will gain a greater understanding of how to select, use, sharpen and maintain your knives.
Our Knife Skills 101 courses cover a variety of different cutting techniques and how they are best used to optimise the flavour and presentation. Knife Skills 101: Vegetables and Fruit: From cutting, peeling and dicing vegetables and fruit including the essential techniques of julienne and chiffonnade. Knife Skills 101: Chicken and Fish: Slicing a piece of meat, boning a whole chicken and filleting and skinning a fish, these skills will afford the home cook a practical and proficient foundation.
At the conclusion of the class participants will sit down together and consume the meal they prepared in class.
Please bring plastic container to take home leftovers, a tea towel and your own knives if you would like to use them, otherwise there will be knives provided. All ingredients ($28) are included within the course fee. We'll provide tea and coffee in the staffroom for breaks.
Open Hours
Term Time: Monday - Wednesday 9:00am - 9:00pm
Thursday - Friday 9:00am - 3:00pm
School Holidays: When courses are running the office is open 9:00am - 4:00pm