Local Michelin star restaurant has a chef's experience going which looks pretty cool. My partner loves cooking. We visit somewhere in the Good Food Guide once a month and she obsessively watches all the cookery programs. The experience comes with dinner for 2 on a separate date.
Will she gain anything useful out of this? Or should I look for something a little bit more basic.
can't comment on what they are offering
But I was gifted the Nick Nairn cooking thing from Mrs b, it wasn't worth it in my opinion, worked out as dearest steak I've ever had. Didn't feel it offered value for money.
Bakery coarse maybe, something she/you could use most days baking bread and what not. Little bakery near Huddersfield i could recommend if you are local.
10yrs ago Mrs Stoner kindly got me a day on a hogget butchery course at River Cottage with Hugh Fernley-Hair's butcher.
Brilliant day and skills I use regularly since.
in fact I'm just right now cooking a hogget curry with meet I butchered from a hogget half carcass I picked up from a mate a few weeks ago.
^ Bakery course would be a good idea too. We bake daily bread here (just a sourdough) but it would be nice to learn some more techniques too.
Depends on the course. Had a foodie friend go through a similar thing and he felt he learned some stuff from it. Depends on the person and the course. I'd love to try. It is unlikely to be value for money but that is not the point
Cheers, we already bake our own bread, cakes and so on.
I've eaten at the restaurant before and (like most Michelin star places) it's pretty good, so I'd not feel short changed eating there.
I do all the butchering in the house, my partner has no interest in learning the craft. I'm asking to see if anyone has had a similar experience and if they actually learned anything from it they wouldn't from binge watching master chef 🙂
I'll echo that is depends on the course. I did a day at Simpson's in Birmingham which was awesome. Not overly skills based though there were some, more a case of talking food, making a few things, drinking wine and then getting a 5 course meal at the end. Good day out that was.
Yeah I got a cooking course (at Betty's of Harrogate Cooking School) last year and had a wonderful day, learning some great skills that I still use. And the wholegrain mustard sauce we made is possibly the most wonderful sauce I have ever made.
Chef's experience as a present?
Unsocial hours, two packs of fags a day and an itchy arse?
As a present?
You shouldn't have
Unsocial hours, two packs of fags a day and an itchy arse?As a present?
This has made my smile no end. The joys of chefs arse, a horrible thing.
I think that sounds great - it fits with her interests and your dining out habit.
You have to take it on trust that the michelin starred rerstaurant will do it properly/take it seriously but that's outside of your control.
It's the thought that counts so......go for it.
I've done a beef butchery and sausage making courses at the Ginger Pig in London. Both good, butchery one was the best. Plus you get a £60+ forerib roast joint that you've prepared yourself to take home and have a roast beef dinner plus brioche bread and butter pudding with custard at the end of the evening.