This two week full time (Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 5pm) cookery course based at Let’s Cook on the outskirts of Perth, in Scotland, has been carefully designed to help you develop all the skills and confidence required to become a competent cook, capable of dealing with all culinary situations, and of course, producing delicious food. On this course, we will show you all the essential tips of the trade, sneaky short cuts, as well as how to rescue culinary disasters so that you remain calm and unflappable in the kitchen!

Course Dates

Who is the course for?

It is a fast track course for those looking for employment in the private catering world, whether it be during a gap year or school or university holidays.  The days are full, but also great fun with lots of delicious food to eat.  We are certain that you will get the most out of your time at Let’s Cook! and by the end of the two weeks, you will leave full of confidence and ready to put your new found culinary skills into action. With the help of our contacts at catering employment agencies, we have a high success rate of finding suitable employment for our clients in a variety of catering positions throughout Scotland in various fishing and shooting lodges, and also in ski chalets in Europe.

How many are on the course?

It is for no more than six students. This encourages a more relaxed and informal atmosphere, and gives the students more one to one personally tailored tuition. It is all about learning about new flavours, techniques and then converting this new found knowledge into producing fabulous food with your Tutor by your side to guide and help you when needed.

Outline of the Day

The day begins at 9.30am and finishes at 4.30pm.  Each day starts with cooking different breakfast. Then, after tackling the outlined skills for the day, you will work towards producing a four course dinner party standard meal which will be enjoyed together as a late lunch.

What we cover on the course

• Essential Knife Skills
• Stocks, Soups and Sauces
• Bread Making, Cakes, and Biscuits
• Cooking with Game
• Basic butchering of meat
• Different Cuts of Meat and Chicken and how to cook them
• How to Gut, Fillet and Cook Fish and Seafood
• Delicious Potato and Vegetable Side Dishes
• Starters and Canapés
• Breakfast Dishes
• Meringues and Pavlovas
• Ice Cream and Sorbets
• Cooking for Children
• Vegetarian and Vegan Cooking
• Cooking for Allergies
• Emergency Starters and Puddings
• How to adapt recipes and How to rectify mistakes!
• Menu Planning and the right menus for all occasions
• How to cost menus and Time Planning
• Table laying

You will also leave with the Essential Recipe Folder which has over 300 tried and tested recipes in it and two week menu plans.

Feedback from the Course

I loved absolutely every minute and now recommend the course to anyone I meet! I learnt the basics for surviving university, such as poached eggs and mashed potatoes to the very finest of dining - cheese soufflés and scallops - and everything in between!! I am so excited to start practicing all of the delicious recipes on my family and friends. A.Strang Steel. Oct 2011