Tutorials

Long-form cooking courses: how dough becomes bread, how a curry base becomes ten different curries, how rice goes from bag to plate, how a charred crust meets a perfect topping. Less recipe, more technique.

84 recipes

Bir Curry The British-Indian-Restaurant method: how base gravy, pre-cooked proteins and spice mixes combine to plate a finished curry in minutes. The system that powers every curry house in the UK. 2 recipes
Bread A bread-making course covering hydration, gluten, kneading, proving, sourdough, enriched doughs, scoring and shaping. Built on the master doughs in the bread-pasta section. 18 recipes
Eggs An eggs course covering boiled and poached, scrambled and omelette, custards, meringues and souffles. The single most teachable ingredient. 6 recipes
Fish A fish course covering pan-frying for crispy skin, en papillote steaming, curing and ceviche, and handling whole fish (scaling, filleting, roasting). 5 recipes
Knife Skills A knife-skills course covering knife choice and care, the basic cuts every kitchen relies on, and the precision cuts of classical French technique. 4 recipes
Pasta A pasta course covering fresh dough technique, shapes, dried pasta cooking, matching sauce to shape, and the regional traditions of Italian cooking. 6 recipes
Pastry A pastry course covering shortcrust, puff, rough puff, choux, laminated croissant dough and filo. The doughs that underpin most of the patisserie canon. 7 recipes
Patisserie A French patisserie course: composing a dessert from the pastry, eggs and sauces foundations; classical cakes; tarts; petit fours; set creams and mousses. 6 recipes
Pizza A pizza-making course covering dough and shaping, base sauces, toppings, cheese types and cooking methods. From a 24-hour cold-ferment dough through to the screaming-hot bake that crisps the base. 6 recipes
Rice Rice-cooking methods compared: absorption, boiled, pilaf and fried. What each technique gives you, where it sits in the world's kitchens, and which to reach for when. 5 recipes
Stir Fry A stir-fry and wok-work course: heat management, oil and pan choice, ingredient ordering, and how to chase wok hei on a home hob. 4 recipes
Stocks Sauces Stocks and the five mother sauces: bechamel, veloute, espagnole, hollandaise, tomato. The foundation under almost every classical French preparation and most modern Western cooking. 7 recipes
Thai Curry A course on Thai curry pastes: green, red, yellow, massaman, panang. The system that makes Thai curry-house cooking possible, with coconut-milk technique and a worked example. 8 recipes