Beginner Cooking Classes in the Bay Area
Just learning to cook? Local chefs on Cozymeal are experienced with bringing beginners up to speed in the kitchen. You’ll learn to feel comfortable waltzing into a kitchen and whipping up your favorite snack. You’ll learn knife skills. You’ll impress your friends. The Bay Area has some of the best food in the word; isn’t it time you took advantage of it? Book a beginners cooking class today!
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The Magic of Cooking With Wine
$75
Cooking Class
$75
These luscious recipes will enlighten you to the difference wine can make in your cooking. Wine can turn a simple recipe into something spectacular, as you'll learn from Chef Charles in this informative cooking class. He'll share his secrets behind the magic of enhancing both savory and sweet dishes by incorporating...
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Chef Charles
Serving the Bay Area
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Summer in Southern Italy
$75
Cooking Class
$75
Spend an evening in the southern Mediterranean with a sumptuous menu drenched in summer sun! The flavors of an Italian summer spring to life in this in-person cooking class with Chef Charles. You'll taste a savory blend of Mediterranean and Moroccan influences in every dish.
Begin your lesson with a summer squash...
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Chef Charles
Serving the Bay Area
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Irresistible Hors d'Oeuvres
$85
Cooking Class
$85
Learn how to handcraft impressive appetizers that start every meal with a bang. If you're looking for new hors d'oeuvres and starters that will impress your friends and guests, join Chef Elham in this hands-on cooking class that nudges you out of your comfort zone and takes your culinary skills to the next level....
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Chef Elham
San Jose (Northside)
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Team Building Activity
Popular Asian Cuisine
$149
Team Building Activity
$149
Gather your team and traverse the wide spread of Asian cuisine. Chef Sara has hand-selected popular recipes from different regions of Asia for this interactive team building cooking class. You and your group will learn how to make each dish from scratch amidst some friendly competition as well as trivia questions from...
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Chef Sara
San Francisco (Fisherman's Wharf)
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Team Building Activity
Authentic Thai Cooking
$149
Team Building Activity
$149
Learn how to make fresh Thai dishes from scratch alongside your team. Gather your team to participate in this exciting cooking class with a little friendly competition. You and your crew will work in pairs to prepare an authentic Thai menu while Chef Sara provides guidance and insightful trivia questions along the...
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Chef Sara
San Francisco (Fisherman's Wharf)
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Team Building Activity
Traditional Chinese-Inspired Fare
$149
Team Building Activity
$149
Chop, stir and slice with Chef Sara as you make authentic Asian recipes with your team. In this hands-on team building cooking class, you'll learn how to make Chinese-inspired dishes under the guidance of Chef Sara along with new knife techniques, Asian cooking tips and more as you prepare the meal together.
Kick...
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Chef Sara
San Francisco (Fisherman's Wharf)
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Italian Dough Workshop
$105
Cooking Class
$105
Enhance your skills with pizza dough, pie crust dough and fresh pasta dough made from scratch! Join Chef Libby in this hands-on cooking class as she guides you through foundational techniques to handle all types of Italian dough from yeasted bread to flaky pie crust.
Pizza dough is the perfect introduction to...
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Chef Libby
San Jose (Naglee Park)
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Classic South Indian Flavors
$109
Cooking Class
$109
Travel to South India with Chef Sara in this lesson on traditional Indian gastronomy. Join Chef Sara for a culinary journey to South India as you explore four classic recipes packed with flavor and created using smart cooking techniques.
Begin with lentil- and vegetable-based sambar soup peppered with spices. Then,...
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Chef Sara
Serving the Bay Area
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Salad Workshop 101
$85
Cooking Class
$85
Learn the basics you need to know to prepare show-stopping salads from scratch. In this hands-on cooking class with Chef Elham, you'll learn basic culinary skills needed to create a variety of classic salads using fresh ingredients.
You'll begin by preparing a steakhouse favorite — Caesar salad — with grilled...
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Chef Elham
San Jose (Almaden)
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Introduction to Bread Making
$85
Cooking Class
$85
Master the basics of the bread-making process from start to finish with Chef Christine. In this hands-on class, Chef Christine will demystify the bread-making process and dispel the myth that homemade bread is too complicated for the average home baker.
You will learn the techniques of mixing, proofing, shaping,...
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Chef Christine
San Francisco (Bernal Heights)
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How to Bake Sweet Breads
$95
Cooking Class
$95
Learn the secrets and techniques to baking pillowy soft loaves of sweet bread at home. In this hands-on class with Chef Christine, you will learn everything you need to know to make sweet breads — those soft, decadent breads that Sunday brunches and lazy mornings were made for.
You'll learn all the steps of sweet...
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Chef Christine
San Francisco (Bernal Heights)
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Seasonal Pies
$85
Cooking Class
$85
No matter the season, there's not much you can't put into a flaky, buttery crust. In this hands-on class with Chef Christine, you will learn that homemade pies are definitely one of the best ways to take advantage of what's in season as you prepare three different types of seasonal pies, each with their own added...
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Chef Christine
San Francisco (Bernal Heights)
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