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Steak Masterclass

Name: Steak Masterclass
Brand: Tim Hayward
Price: 160.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

with Tim Hayward

£160

Saturday 22nd
February 2025

11:00 - 14.30
(3.5hrs)

Divertimenti
Knightsbridge

Join Chef Tim Hayward, celebrated food writer, restaurateur, and culinary expert, for an exclusive steak cooking masterclass that will take your steak skills to the next level. Whether you're a steak enthusiast or a home cook looking to perfect your technique, this masterclass offers the insider tips, expert knowledge, and hands-on skills you need to cook the perfect steak every time.

What You'll Learn:

Choosing the Perfect Cut: Discover the key to selecting the best steak for your meal. From rib-eye to sirloin, Tim Hayward will guide you through different cuts of beef, what to look for in terms of marbling and texture, and how to match the cut to your preferred cooking style.
Prepping Like a Pro: Before you even start cooking, Tim will walk you through the essential steps of preparation, from seasoning techniques to bringing your steak to room temperature. Learn how small details make a big difference in flavour and texture.
Basting and Resting: Discover how to enhance your steak's flavour with butter basting and aromatics like garlic, thyme, and rosemary. Plus, learn why resting your steak after cooking is essential for juiciness and how long you should let it sit before slicing.
Perfecting Your Finish: Whether you prefer your steak rare, medium, or well-done, Chef Hayward will demonstrate how to control internal temperature to achieve your desired doneness with precision.
Serving and Slicing: Learn how to slice your steak like a professional, ensuring tenderness with every bite. Chef Hayward will also share tips on simple accompaniments to elevate your steak, from compound butters to sauces.
Expert Guidance from Tim Hayward:
With his deep knowledge and passion for quality ingredients, Tim brings his signature expertise to this masterclass, sharing techniques honed through years of experience.
Cook alongside Tim as he demonstrates each stage of steak preparation and cooking, offering invaluable tips and troubleshooting advice to ensure you succeed in your own kitchen.This masterclass goes beyond just watching – you'll actively participate, trying out techniques in real-time and gaining the confidence to cook a perfect steak whenever you want.
Ask your burning questions about steak cooking, cuts of beef, or anything related to meat preparation.

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 refreshments
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!

Tim Hayward

Tim Hayward is an award-winning food journalist and broadcaster, and the author of Food DIY (2013), Knife (2016), The Modern Kitchen (2017) and Loaf Story (2020). He is a regular panelist on BBC Radio 4’s The Kitchen Cabinet, and has written and presented several documentary series on Radio 4. His three-part documentary on fungi won gold at the 2023

New York Festivals Radio Awards, in the Environment & Ecology category. Tim is both food writer and restaurant reviewer for the Financial Times, and winner of awards including the Fortnum and Mason Food Writer of the Year 2022 and Guild of Food Writers awards for Food Writing and Restaurant Reviews. He is co-owner of Fitzbillies Bakery in Cambridge.

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.