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Knife Skills - Meat & Vegetables

with Divertimenti chef

£145
Saturday 25th
January 2025
11:00-14:30
(3.5hrs)
Divertimenti
Knightsbridge

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Ask any professional chef and they'll tell you that knowing how to use a knife is the most important skill in the kitchen. From keeping knives razor sharp to learning how to joint poultry and create all the vegetable cuts like a professional chef alongside all aspects of knife skills & knife care are covered in the comprehensive & essential class.

You will be led by a Divertimenti chef in how to handle, look after & use your kitchen knives, after your class you will sit down to enjoy a meal prepared by our chef together as a class with a glass of wine & refreshments.

Great knife skills lead to beautiful presentation of your final dishes and helping in all aspects of your cooking. 

What’s covered in the class:

  • How to sharpen and care for your knives
  • Vegetable cutting techniques including slicing, julienne, batons, dicing, mirepoix, brunoise
  • Joint a whole chicken, make a stock from the bones, reserve the breast to make a Vietnamese pho, the thighs and drumsticks will get oven baked in a marinade all while making a slaw with the veggies and a tropical fruit salad with the fruits
  • Tips on food plating and presentation

You will cover a three course menu in the session featuring a Vietnamese style pho broth, Sticky roast chicken with sesame & a colourful raw Asian slaw & a beautifully plated exotic fruit salad 

What’s included:

  • Refreshments on arrival and available throughout the class
  • Apron and all of the equipment required
  • A recipe pack for you to take home after your class
  • All ingredients provided and weighed out in advance for you
  • Lunch of your own making to enjoy together as a class accompanied by a glass of wine or soft refreshment
  • 10% discount on purchases made in store on the day of your class, including cookery classes. Excludes books, food, electrical items, gift vouchers and sale items
  • We do all the washing up!

You will be learning in a beautifully designed kitchen which provides a warm welcoming environment that can accommodate everything from group cookery classes to intimate chef’s tables, with the versatility to suit everyone.

Our partners have been chosen with great care, as all our equipment must stand up to the day-to-day rigours of our cookery school – much like a professional kitchen, that you can enjoy using whilst creating your own amazing dishes in class to give you the best possible experience when cooking with us.

Our classes and outstanding range of teachers will help you hone your gastronomic skills, even if you are a complete novice or a dab hand in the kitchen. We love highlighting new upcoming food trends and championing the rising stars within the culinary world.

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Divertimenti does everything it can to reduce the risk of any students consuming an allergen that could cause and allergic reaction.

Please call the school to discuss any severe food allergies prior to booking a class online, we must speak to you before you visit the school if you have a severe allergy or severe dietary intolerance.

We will become as flexible as possible, where we can to remove a specific ingredient from a student’s recipe we will but we are unable to remove that ingredient for every student attending.

We handle all types of ingredients in the kitchen at Divertimenti and we are not able to completely allergen free environment, our kitchen is multi-purpose therefore this makes our kitchen unsuitable for those with life- threatening allergies, in such cases as these we would suggest getting in touch with the team to arrange a private lesson in your own home with one of our chefs. Please contact us for more information

In the unlikely event you are unable to the class you have booked for and need to cancel your booking, for a full refund we will require your cancellation via email no less than 7 days.

Once we have received your cancellation, we will arrange a booking onto an alternative class date or a full refund, sadly we are unable to make changes to bookings or offer a refund with less than 7 days of the date of your class but we are happy to switch the names on the booking so a family member or friend can take the place.

Divertimenti reserves the right to cancel any demonstration or class or substitute another presenter at any time, in the unfortunate event that a ‘Personality’ present or chef cannot attend a session you will be offered the choice of an appropriate alternative or a full refund.

Attendees must be aged over 18 to attend an adult class - we have a list of suitable young adult and teenage classes suitable for under 18’s – they must be accompanied by an adult.



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