Chef Skills is a 10-week, part-time professional course designed for proficient and knowledgeable home cooks, chefs and food professionals with the ambition to boost kitchen competence and develop new fundamental skills. The progressive techniques taught on this unique course will both refine and enhance your cooking. The course runs two days per week over 10 weeks.
If you are already a keen cook with a repertoire of foundation cookery skills, this course will allow you to build confidence and technique, develop your own personal cooking style and help you progress, to become a masterful home cook or to excel in the food industry.
As well as expanding your set of key classic skills, you’ll diversify your range of recipes by creating contemporary, global dishes and intriguing flavour combinations. You’ll master the art of food presentation, canapés, meat and fish techniques, and gain endless recipe inspiration. The course celebrates and embraces emerging food trends, ensuring you’ll be primed to offer the food that people love to eat today.
If you have taken the Essential Cooking Certificate, this course is the natural progression. If you haven’t, take a look at this questionnaire to determine if your skills are the correct level for this course.
Who is this course for?
- Competent, passionate home cooks who want to enhance and elevate their cooking skills
- Chefs looking to refine and elevate their skills to boost career opportunities
- Those who have taken our Essential Cooking Certificate seeking to build on these foundation skills, deepen their knowledge, and take their culinary ability to the next level and unlock doors to a career in the food industry
- Those who have completed chef training in the past and are keen to refresh their skills and master more contemporary cooking techniques and recipes
Whatever your motivation for taking the course, we will equip you with in-depth knowledge and kitchen confidence to fulfil your ambitions.