Roast - Cooking technique class

Learn all about the cooking techniques Roast (and related techniques) in our new and unique live and interactive cooking technique class: Roast.

A big part in learning to cook is to understand the main cooking techniques, which will help you understand what you are doing and why. In this class, you will learn what the cooking technique roast is all about, when to roast and what ingredients you can cook in your oven (or barbecue).

Give us 90 minutes of your time on a Monday night and become a creative cook who can improvise in the kitchen!
(Or watch the recording at your own convenience.)

Why do I want to learn about the cooking techniques?

Becoming a more confident and creative cook all boils down to understand what is going on in your pots and pans. If you know why you are doing and how you are doing it, you can become more free of recipes. You can decide for yourself to follow the instructions or go your own way. That’s the aim with the Learn to cook without recipes classes.

A lot of ingredients are great to cook in your oven (or barbecue). The roasting will give them a deep flavor not many can resist.

In this class, we will discuss and cook various ingredients using this important cooking technique, so you get an deeper understanding of when, why and how to roast.

What you will learn:

👩‍🍳 After this class you will understand the cooking technique roast to a level no one has ever explained them to you.
👩‍🍳 What ingredients you can roast
👩‍🍳 What temperature is best for roasting
👩‍🍳 What techniques are related and what their differences are
👩‍🍳 How you can use your new found knowledge confidently and creatively in your daily cooking.
👩‍🍳 Watch back the class for another 6 days.
👩‍🍳 Each live class participant will receive an extensive e-cookbook on the subject.

Want to join?

This is a live and interactive cook along class. You can ask chef Edie all the questions you have while cooking and experimenting together.
Of course you can just sit back and just watch too. Also, a recording will be available for 6 days after class.

Dietary preferences

Class is open to all dietary preferences. Class is gluten-free.
Email us your questions or let us know at sign up if you have any dietary preferences.

SIGN UP

At this moment, it’s not possible to sign up for this live class. But you can:
~ request this class to get back on the calendar and get on the wait list,
~ book it as a private one-on-one class,
~ book it as a group class with friends and family, or a corporate event.
~ buy the accompanying e-cookbook – if available.

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Our upcoming classes

Check our full cooking class calendar.
~ Or learn why we teach these classes the way we do.

CLASS INFO

CATEGORY:
Cooking technique class (learn more)

CONTACT:
Chef Edie: info@creativecookco.com

buy the e-cookbook

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Yes, I want to improve my meals and learn all about roasting

About your chef

This class will be taught by chef Edie Dourleijn, once a picky eater who couldn’t cook.

She documented her path to eating and cooking everything as one of the first food bloggers of her home country The Netherlands (in 2006!). To learn more quickly, she looked around for classes that would help her understand what is going on in her pots and pans, but they didn’t exist. Eventually, she ended up at culinary school.

Now chef Edie teaches her Learn to cook without recipes classes for curious cooks who want to become free of recipes. Just like she once was.

Edie also hosts all kinds of entertaining and educational virtual cooking classes to celebrate any occasion with family or friends, or as a (real) team building, receiving 5 star reviews.

Get in touch with any questions or requests you have.

What you can expect – the longer version

What the Learn to cook without recipes classes make stand out from other cooking classes, is that in each class we will focus on 1 subject only. That could be a cooking technique, an ingredient, a dish or another theme. We will dive a bit deeper into the subject to help you understand why we do what we do.

At other cooking classes, you will learn a recipe, this one way the chef teaches you. But will they explain why this way is their favorite and preferred way? Will they discuss the culinary discourse on the subject, the pros and cons of their recipes? We will!

After you’ve signed up, you will get an email with your homework. Yes! 😉

For this class, we will ask you to think about what you know about roasting, what ingredients, oven temperature, ec. You also get a grocery and tools list and the Zoom link.

Ten minutes before class starts, we will virtually open our kitchen so we have some time to set up and chat a bit. Then chef Edie will introduce herself, explain the program of the class and we get to cook. She won’t control if you did your homework, so no stickers from us, but being a bit prepared for the class will help you gain confidence and understand what we’re up to.

After class has ended you can enjoy what you’ve cooked.

I’m in and want to learn to roast

FAQ

What makes this cooking class different from others?

At most, if not all, cooking classes (both virtual an in-person) the focus is on following a recipe, and, if you’re lucky, you’ll get a tip of two.
Not at the Learn to cook without recipes classes. In our classes we will break down the recipes and focus more on why we are doing what we are doing.
In our eyes, recipes are merely this one person’s way of describing what to do. Not a rule book to live by. There are many ways to get to a similar end result, and we will focus on teaching you that. To make sure you know how you can derive from a recipe and make any dish the way that works for you!

Why is this an online cooking class?

Thanks to covid-19, chef Edie realized how much you can learn while cooking in your own kitchen. Doing every step yourself, using your own pots, pans and utensils, on your own stove, with the help of a teacher looking in your pans with you. Especially when you compare it to cooking in the chef’s kitchen, where others are stirring the ingredients you’ve chopped into the the pots.

Is this class interactive? Can I ask the chef my questions?

Yes, yes, and yes! Chef Edie does believe in communal learning. She definitely doesn’t know everything and is not afraid to admit so. She believes we all can learn from each other’s experiences and backgrounds. So yes, share your curiosity and knowledge with all of us.
The ultimate goal for this course is to create a curious community of cooking enthusiasts that openly and respectfully learn from each other.

I am gluten free, diary free, vegetarian, vegan (etc), is this cooking class for me?

It depends on the class. A class focused on cooking meat might not be of interested for people with a vegetarian and vegan life style. But with most other classes we will try to make the class accessible to everyone. See the notes above, or email us your questions.

I am an absolute beginner, would that work?

Yes! We aim to make all of our classes open to all cooking levels. As long as you love to cook and want to learn more, you’ll be fine. And, you always can watch back the class (6 days) if you want to revisit what you’ve learned (some classes only!).

I don’t like to see myself on the screen. Can I still participate?

Of course! We do understand sharing your kitchen and culinary skills to strangers is scary. However, we encourage everyone to share their screens, for a better bonding and easier communication throughout the class. We’d loved to see every student feels connected and part of a community of creative and curious cooks.
Alternatively, you can aim your camera at your work station, so chef Edie still can see your work and guide you, if needed.

I would love to attend a class, but can’t make it on the day/time.

We’re sorry to hear that! Maybe one of these options work for you?
* Some classes will be recorded and you can watch it back for at least one week. Check the info above.
* Sign up for the wait list, so we can notify you of future time slots.
* Book a private session with chef Edie. Send her an email to learn more.

What if I need to cancel?

Please read our fine print here.

Our upcoming classes

Check our full cooking class calendar.
~ Or learn why we teach these classes the way we do.

Check our full cooking class calendar.

Roast – Cooking technique class

Why do I want to learn about the cooking techniques?

What you will learn:

Want to join?

Dietary preferences

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Our upcoming classes

CLASS INFO

About your chef

What you can expect – the longer version

FAQ

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