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Chef In Training - Western Home Cooking

Learn essential kitchen skills and gain culinary knowledge!



Duration: 3 hours/session

For: 8 sessions

Fees: $1,500.00

Chef: Loreta Quitoles

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Welcome to Chef In Training - Western Home Cooking, a dynamic cooking class designed to transform aspiring cooks into confident kitchen maestros. Whether you're a culinary beginner, a food enthusiast, a domestic helper, or a teenager preparing to study overseas, this course is tailored to equip you with essential kitchen skills and culinary knowledge.

Who Should Enroll?
This class is perfect for:
- Home Cooks seeking to elevate their culinary prowess.
- Culinary Beginners eager to learn foundational cooking and baking techniques.
- Food Enthusiasts passionate about exploring Western cuisine.
- Domestic Helpers aiming to bridge the gap between home cooking and professional chef standards.
- Teenagers heading overseas for studies, needing vital kitchen survival skills.
- First Home Owners ready to master the art of cooking in their new kitchens.

What You'll Learn
Taught by professional chefs, our comprehensive curriculum covers a wide range of culinary and baking skills and techniques to ensure you're well-versed in the kitchen.

Why This Class?
If you want a domestic helper who can deliver restaurant-quality meals at home, or if you're a student venturing out on your own for the first time, this class will provide the skills and confidence you need. First-time home owners will also find this course invaluable as they learn to make the most of their new kitchens.

Please select the date to view the modules. Click on the modules to view the menu taught for the class.

Terms and Conditions:

Participants enrolled for the entire 8 sessions will receive the following Palate Sensations tool kit. This is a mandatory kit and is required for all class attendance. A refund of $200 will be given for those who already have this kit from attending previous chef in training sessions:

Personalized chef's jacket

Palate Sensations towel

Palate Sensations apron

A chef and paring knife

For those taking individual sessions, the fees will be $195 nett per participant per session.

For those taking the entire module, the fees will be $1500 nett per participant for all 8 sessions.

Best enrolled as an entire module but you can also enroll for individual sessions. 

An entire module is designated as 1 continuous intake and not different sessions from different intakes to make up 8 sessions.

We will need at least 48 hours notice if you cannot come to the class. There will be no make up class if it falls within 48 hours to the class date.

In the unlikely event that a scheduled session does not reach the minimum number required for the session or due to unforeseen exceptional circumstances, Palate Sensations reserves the right to change the date of or cancel the session. If that occurs, a refund of any payment will be offered/given minus any discounts (if applicable. The final fee calculation is subject to the discretion of Palate Sensations).

Palate Sensations does not guarantee the availability of any session (whether for adults or children, or as advertised on the Website or through any other means) until your booking is confirmed, and where applicable, the required session size is reached.  

Participants will only be issued with the Certificate of Achievement upon completion of all 8 sessions.

Day 1: Module 1: The Art of Mise En Place & Vegetable Knife Skills

The art of mise en place - Learn the French technique of preparing and organizing ingredients to streamline your cooking process.

Food hygiene - Understand the importance of maintaining a clean and safe kitchen environment.

Food storage - Gain insights into proper food storage techniques to keep your ingredients fresh and safe.

Efficient work table set up - Discover how to set up your workspace for maximum efficiency and ease.

Knife skills with vegetables - Learn efficient and precise cutting skills for vegetables.

Vegetable stock

Minestrone soup

Vegetable frittata

Day 2: Module 2: Deboning Knife Skills

Learn how to debone a whole chicken and use all parts of the chicken to make:

Wings - Honey chicken wings

Breast - Schnitzel

Thigh - Roulade stuffed with cheese and mushroom (duxelle stuffing)

Carcass - Chicken stock

Day 3: Module 3: Filleting Knife Skills

Learn how to fillet a whole fish and use all parts of the fish to make:

Panfried fish with garlic, butter, lemon and parsley

Fish stock 

Mediterranean fish stew

Fish pie

Day 4: Module 4: Fresh Pasta

Learn to make fresh pasta and accompanying classic sauces:

Bolognese sauce

Carbonara

Pesto 

Day 5: Module 5: Making Bread

Master the basics of making simple breads at home:

Focaccia

Dinner rolls

White sandwich loaf

Pizza 

Day 6: Module 6: Plated Desserts

Create restaurant worthy plated desserts that will impress any guest:

Sticky date pudding

Churros with chocolate sauce

Panna cotta

Chocolate lava cake

Day 7: Module 7: Canapes

Whip up a range of delightful canapés for your next gathering.

Day 8: Module 8: The Art of Entertainment

Dining etiquette - Explore the customs and manners of dining etiquette to enhance your hosting skills.

Art of Serving Food & Clearing Food - Perfect the art of presenting dishes and clearing the table with finesse.

Crafting a 3-Course Meal - Learn how to plan and execute a three-course meal for entertaining guests:

French onion soup

Duck confit with grilled vegetables

Apple crumble 

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